Quote Originally Posted by Smashup
Quote Originally Posted by Punisher136
The older fighters didn't make much money and often they were fighting for their own survival. One fight hardly made you anything. They fought a lot more often and being undefeated wasn't stressed as much so they fought anybody regardless of skill. Today you have boxers declining fights saying the bullshit line "high risk low reward" while older fights pretty much considered that the point of boxing (taking the hardest fight available). How boxing ever became a "pretty boy" (not taking shots at floyd here its just the words i chose to express this thought) sport where money/fame is more important than legacy/competition is beyond me. Records don't mean anything if you're not fighting the best out there and if everyone was fighting the best out there, their records would closely resemble those of the older fighters where win percentages were 80% or less (and those were the good fighters).
















Did you read my post by any chance
bates made 20,000 for fighting holyfield awhile ago. you realize that a journeymen made more in that fight than some people make in an entire year? Big fighters were always gonna get paid wether legitely thru the sport or under the table but i'm talking about all the fighters in general. You can make atleast a couple thousand a fight as a journeymen whos not going anywhere. Fighting atleast 10 times a year at that rate will get you an income thats upper middle class, that kind of money could not be made by journeymen of a previous era.

Did you by chance read my ENTIRE post