Would this produce more action in fights?

**Dizaster** · 10-21-2009 05:59 AM

I would love that and absolutely think it would add more action..

1. Winner takes a bigger purse... Say Mayweather vs Marquez was 60/40 split, Marquez win would make it 60/40 the other way.. Or Mayweather win would make it 70/30... OR, just have a set bonus that goes to the winner.

2. Additionally, a bonus for winning by knockout or TKO... I think this one would add huge excitement to boxing.. The only downside I would see is if someone was dominating a fight, think Winky vs Tito, Winky might fight a perfect fight, then in the last round or two just go for the KO, mixing up his winning recipe, and get himself KO'd by a lucky Tito punch..... That sort of thing would be a shame to see, purely for money's sake...
But I mean, there is nothing wrong with anyone who is dominating a fight trying to go for the knock out...

But seriously, I don't see why there isn't room for some sort of extra incentive for getting a favourable result in a fight..

**JonesJrMayweather** · 10-21-2009 08:37 AM

I think its a great idea, but if it were the case we would never see the big fights made. The egos are way too large for it.

Look at hatton-pacman blasted in two rounds, nobody associated with boxing could have predicted that. That's what scares them the same with rematch clauses by champs. They all want a little insurance because deep down they know on any night they could be on the wrong side of of classics such as lewis-rahman, jones-tarver II, douglass-tyson, or the oldies turning back the clock like HOP-pavlik, foreman-moorer.

Floyd already cries about splitting 50/50 with pacman, imagine if he stood to lose not only his "0" in the loss column, but his coveted money as well. There would be even more posturing and avoiding each other. You would think that the so called best would come out of the woods for the opportunity to take all of the money seeing as how they each claim to be the best. But i think winner take all is too much and would like to see each fighter go home with enough money to survive as they did show up for the job and competed.

**Dizaster** · 10-21-2009 09:28 AM

Yeah that would be one thing that would frustrate me about extra rewards for winners, as certain fighters like Floyd could run their way to a victory and the extra spoilts while doing very little to improve the excitement of boxing, while other fighters/fights will go a gruelling 12 rounds of hell with both fighters leaving blood sweat and tears in the ring, and one have to leave a chunk of his pay packet in there as well...

You would never want to take money away from a fighter who loses as gloriously as many fighters have in the past... But on the flip side, there are many fighters out there who would leave more in the ring if they had the extra incentive...

Hmm, I just realised this thread relates to my other thread...

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...own-money.html