Heavyweight Boxing-The Truth

By Boxing News - 05/03/2013 - Comments

By Tony Crooks: Sometimes in life, we all have to face up to what life throws at us, whether you are a boxer or an armchair enthusiast or just someone that likes to make comments on a website for the hell of it. There is anger in all of us; we are the products of what our lifestyles dictates to us.

This does not equate to the fact that it makes us bad people. We have to justify who we are, are the stars just pin holes in the curtain of night? Is a man a man until he is a father? We are not who we are, we are who our peers judge us upon and why others judge us.

There is a morbid fascination with heavyweight boxing, the fact that we like to see a man knocked unconscious and the fact that we revel in the spectacle is one that is in our nature. The equivalent of being hit by a 230 pound boxer is like being hit with a sixteen pound sledge hammer at 30 miles per hour.

Can you imagine for just one moment what is like to even swing a sledge hammer at a quarter of that speed? You may wonder where I am going with this article. Well let me explain, there are promoters and fighters, the fighters have very little control as to who they fight.

Boxing is a business just like the Ford Motor Company, just like McDonalds and just like Wal-Mart. Money is the key, promoters will never put their boxers in with anyone that they feel will beat them, if they do, the money train runs out and they are back to square one. Occasionally things go wrong, as I said earlier; a sixteen pound sledge hammer at 30 miles an hour sometimes spoils the party.

I read constant comments of who will beat who in the heavyweight division, having said that, who really knows? If I am wrong, tell me this, why does it take so long to make a match up? The reason is that the business brains behind boxing are weighing up their options. Should their money making machine get beat, what is the next move.

The only time that this is not the case is when there is a mandatory challenger; even then, payments are made which is so called step aside money. So the point of this is really to say, that nothing is what it seems. We all wait and hope for the day when boxing is about fighters that want to fight each other to be the best. All I can say is that we will all be waiting a very long time.



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