
Originally Posted by
greynotsoold
They may have been making $500 a night, but that was pretty good money then. Jimmy McClarnin made over $100,000 in one year as a teenager. At that time there were over 5000 fighters in New York City alone, making a living as pro fighters because they had something like 35 cards per week.
At least the bottom rung guys had the opportunity to fight on a bunch of different cards; that opportunity does not exist today, and if you can get $100 per round today you are lucky.
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