Selling in boxing- do you think we need that era?

[IamInuit]

That has been part of boxing for years. Not every fighter is in there to win, and I'm not just talking about 'dives.'
There was a guy that was state commissioner in the state I lived in before this one. He went to fight in another guy's hometown. The other guy was undefeated and on his way up (he ended up going too far up in weight and losing at LHW). The future commissioner was not supposed to win but, the evening of the fight, he held out for an extra $1500 (good money in the late 1960s), or he'd go out and try to win. he got the money.
"Selling" it has always been part of boxing.

But that's not what he's really talking about brother. He's talking about exaggeration on steroids and the WWFing of boxing.


Things like this

or this

I cant even entertain the thought.

[Spicoli]

I dunno bro, too much of this skill and we'll have the WBC pushing Bluto into a vacant heavyweight trinket affair! Toooooot toooot

Boxing has too many snake oil salesman and guys padding records with actors already

[ykdadamaja]

I dunno bro, too much of this skill and we'll have the WBC pushing Bluto into a vacant heavyweight trinket affair! Toooooot toooot

Boxing has too many snake oil salesman and guys padding records with actors already

But we have all of that without the excitement and drama.... just dramatize it. SELL IT!! That's alls I'm saying.

[Bo-Bo24]

Put simply, you want another Don King type guy to come along and sell fights to the public?