Quote Originally Posted by mrbig1 View Post
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!!!