Is this the worst era in HW boxing history?

[mrbig1]

Not only are we living in the worst HW era but we are living in the shittiest boxing era in general..

There may be some deep divisions like 147 but what's the point when guys arent mixing it up..

And look at all the matchups that are being blocked due to politics.. its fuckjn bullshit.

Only throwback division at the miment is 112... flyweight division!

Here is another reason why young people are staying away from boxing. How many fighters make any real money? 4 maybe 5 tops. In MLB the lowest you can make is 450,000 dollars per year. That's what they pay rookies. So why would you go into boxing. How many stories are there about a guy who has been champ for years only to retire with nothing. There is nothing to stop a promoter or manage from stealing as much as they want. Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jorden, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron still have money. It's very hard to find one fighter who still has money. So If I was a young man I would say fuck boxing. This is why this era is very weak. The world needs a boxing union like all other sports around the world.

[Max Power]

Not only are we living in the worst HW era but we are living in the shittiest boxing era in general..

There may be some deep divisions like 147 but what's the point when guys arent mixing it up..

And look at all the matchups that are being blocked due to politics.. its fuckjn bullshit.

Only throwback division at the miment is 112... flyweight division!

Here is another reason why young people are staying away from boxing. How many fighters make any real money? 4 maybe 5 tops. In MLB the lowest you can make is 450,000 dollars per year. That's what they pay rookies. So why would you go into boxing. How many stories are there about a guy who has been champ for years only to retire with nothing. There is nothing to stop a promoter or manage from stealing as much as they want. Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jorden, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron still have money. It's very hard to find one fighter who still has money. So If I was a young man I would say fuck boxing. This is why this era is very weak. The world needs a boxing union like all other sports around the world.

There is more money in boxing than ever before you bloody idiot LOL!

That's why guys like you try to criticize their fight rate by saying they are too wealthy now to have to compete all the time..

Which is it? You can't have it both ways

Your failing mate! Your Golden Era.. Is now just the "Olden Era" hahaha =P

[mrbig1]

Brother max, You are missing the point. Yes there is more money but how much of it do they keep? Mike Tyson said Don King would charge him 8,000 dollars for towels. There is no way anyone could do that in other sports. In the MLB a agent can only charge 1%. that's the rules. In boxing there is no rules. A manager in boxing can get anywhere from 30 to 50% of a fighters money. If we want to bring back boxing to it's hey day something has to change. In fact Don King wanted to buy a NBA team. The NBA said no fucking way.

[Max Power]

Brother max, You are missing the point. Yes there is more money but how much of it do they keep? Mike Tyson said Don King would charge him 8,000 dollars for towels. There is no way anyone could do that in other sports. In the MLB a agent can only charge 1%. that's the rules. In boxing there is no rules. A manager in boxing can get anywhere from 30 to 50% of a fighters money. If we want to bring back boxing to it's hey day something has to change. In fact Don King wanted to buy a NBA team. The NBA said no fucking way.

Yeah I do give you that, and I think many things about boxing today in fact do suck so on this line of reason I agree.

But the conclusion that the current division is talentless and that these reasons are scaring kids out of boxing is ludicrous. In fact the argument could be made that today with the emergence of fighter/promoters that they are beginning to care more about the fighters than previous.. Don King and Arum etc excluded of course but these figures would have always existed in boxing.

I think the current scene has problems but I would not want to go back to the days of 15 round featherfist fights, unprepared, unrecovered bum fights monthly etc, that would be rubbish. I'm sure there can be a happy medium!!

I believe a person is going to be a boxer mainly anyway if they have fight in them and are inrtroduced to it by their father/family who like boxing or got caught up with a trainer or other boxers in their area while young, it's inevitable, after a year or 2 boxing while young I would say most would not want to suddenly become interested in basketball or football!! By then, fighting is what they know best. Just a theory.

What I see more often is ppl from OTHER sports, coming to boxing!!!