Great article on current affairs in boxing.

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In my mind, if you are a fighter, you fight. That is how you pay your bills and feed your family...And your team should work with that because you fighting pays their bills and feeds their families as well.
Sitting around waiting 2 years for a big payday has never ever made a fighter better.

Yeah that's for the fighters, but HBO won't screen Ward vs say... Kerry Hope just as a stay busy fight for Ward, when they can screen 2 better matched fighters and make more money.

Remember the people at HBO have bills to pay also.

I disagree with it all but the politics run boxing.

Jones Jr got away with a literal bum of the month tour with HBO; I guess they learned from that. And the "and no defeats" is SO essential these days that nobody will fight unless it is for all the money.
Dempsey gets a lot of scorn for not fighting Wills because the money was never right but it seems like we've come back to that for a lot of guys. Too many guys want to get paid, and paid well, so they let the fighter sit. Meanwhile, they all have their hustles and schemes, and all the fighter has is fighting.