Chavez vs GGG near dead

**J_Undisputed** · 05-08-2014 03:06 AM

Theres no federal boxing organization that could govern in situations like this. The promoters take advantage of the situation because as much as I hate to say it... half of the fighters are stupid and the other half don't care. Fighters are thinking about money and women and a lavish lifestyle rather than treating it like any other profession. Noone wants to be concerned with the bottom line and payouts to the team, management and other things like sanctioning fees. They put their trust in the wrong people and those people rob them blind. The lesson from this is to be more responsible with your money and more importantly, your health.

Of course rather than lobby for an overall commission and have a union that would be the equivalent of a players organization in other sports that could defend issues relating to the boxers health and welfare, the fighters choose to follow the richest SOB in the sport hoping to make their own high stakes money grab. So they start jumping networks, suing to get out of contracts, holding out, nickel and diming and trying to make up their own rules. They come up with suspicious conditions. "Oh, I have a career ending neurological brain injury that mysteriously disappeared once my contractual obligations were negated in court"

The latest thing now is the fighter/promotion thing that has the sport cannibalizing itself. Rather than make the game better and preserve the sport for years to come, let me exploit other young fighters and make money off exploiting them so i'll always have money coming in. It's every fighters responsibility to protect themselves from being ripped off by the money hungry sharks, but it should be biggest names in the sport that are looking out for everyone, rather than just claiming to when they beef about the padding in gloves or drug tests. Its just unfortunate that many fighters don't have more than a high school diploma and noone to fight for them or looking out for their interest without a cut of the profits. It goes without saying that managers and promoters will protect a fighter because it means protecting their own financial interests as well. Until one day, that fighter is no longer great, no longer fast, no longer draws a crowd and then promoter cashes them out, bleeding them dry of every last bit of fame and fortune they had left.

It's sounds crazy for a 50-70 year old man that sits on his @$$ all day, talking on a telephone with a gut that's as soft as cookie dough to defeat and take everything of a man who trains every day for months at a time, sweating and bleeding the life of a warrior and turning his body into a lethal weapon but its been happening in boxing since the beginning. Just my 2 cents.

**walrus** · 05-08-2014 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by J_Undisputed

Theres no federal boxing organization that could govern in situations like this. The promoters take advantage of the situation because as much as I hate to say it... half of the fighters are stupid and the other half don't care. Fighters are thinking about money and women and a lavish lifestyle rather than treating it like any other profession. Noone wants to be concerned with the bottom line and payouts to the team, management and other things like sanctioning fees. They put their trust in the wrong people and those people rob them blind. The lesson from this is to be more responsible with your money and more importantly, your health.

Of course rather than lobby for an overall commission and have a union that would be the equivalent of a players organization in other sports that could defend issues relating to the boxers health and welfare, the fighters choose to follow the richest SOB in the sport hoping to make their own high stakes money grab. So they start jumping networks, suing to get out of contracts, holding out, nickel and diming and trying to make up their own rules. They come up with suspicious conditions. "Oh, I have a career ending neurological brain injury that mysteriously disappeared once my contractual obligations were negated in court"

The latest thing now is the fighter/promotion thing that has the sport cannibalizing itself. Rather than make the game better and preserve the sport for years to come, let me exploit other young fighters and make money off exploiting them so i'll always have money coming in. It's every fighters responsibility to protect themselves from being ripped off by the money hungry sharks, but it should be biggest names in the sport that are looking out for everyone, rather than just claiming to when they beef about the padding in gloves or drug tests. Its just unfortunate that many fighters don't have more than a high school diploma and noone to fight for them or looking out for their interest without a cut of the profits. It goes without saying that managers and promoters will protect a fighter because it means protecting their own financial interests as well. Until one day, that fighter is no longer great, no longer fast, no longer draws a crowd and then promoter cashes them out, bleeding them dry of every last bit of fame and fortune they had left.

It's sounds crazy for a 50-70 year old man that sits on his @$$ all day, talking on a telephone with a gut that's as soft as cookie dough to defeat and take everything of a man who trains every day for months at a time, sweating and bleeding the life of a warrior and turning his body into a lethal weapon but its been happening in boxing since the beginning. Just my 2 cents.

Damn, you put that well using the cannibalism reference. Bad Blood will not facilitate great fights . I am not close to understanding the business side of Boxing but it took baseball, hockey and football a long time to recover after they had ugly owner player battles