Pricing for sparring!

[Master]

Yeah but how many weeks do they get used for, and even if they aren't getting knocked out, how many sub concussive blows are they taking to the head on a daily basis?

2k a week is good but they only get a few weeks work out of it.

They do wear head gear and fight with pillow gloves. If they also fight during the year they make decent money.

[Beanflicker]

Yeah but doctors are learning more now that it's the repeated sub concussive blows added up that causes traumatic brain injury even more so than the big knockout blow, so in that way the bigger gloves and headgear are actually more dangerous because they allow the fighter to stay conscious and upright to receive more blows.

And if they have to take a job as a sparring partner, chances are they are making small purses for their fights. Take Derrick Findley, who's worked as a sparring partner for guys like Golovkin and Martinez. I read somewhere he averages around $10,000 a fight. So say he gets in 4 fights and 5 weeks of sparring work at 2k a week, in one year. SO he pulls in 50k before taxes, manager/promoter/trainer/gym/medical fees, not bad, people get by on less for sure, but there's no benefits, no retirement package, the window to make money can be extremely small and unpredictable, and by 40 (if not, sooner) he'll probably be either done or unable to make money from boxing anymore and he'll probably be dealing with all kinds of physical issues like traumatic brain injury and wear and tear to his body from years of training and fighting.

It's a tough way to make a living.

[ykdadamaja]

Nah. I don't think my friend was taking the piss, because he was doing ok here and doing his own fights to just up and stop everything just to go into camp.

Perhaps the 60k was not with expenses and other living accommodations taken into consideration. But I'm almost certain he was not going to get up and leave his family, properties and career just to do that.

Plus, we have seen the evidence of his extra money on the ground.