By Joshua Meador: I awoke early this morning to make my daily run and meditation before all the hustle and bustle of the day arrived. Being a lower level suit for a billion dollar corporation in a struggling industry as well as a huge boxing fan, it was only natural that my thoughts embraced both boxing and business. With the dawns early light gently illuminating my neighborhood streets and birds singing to the rhythm of my footsteps I realized that boxing is ultimately just another business falling victim to man’s overwhelming lust and greed for the mighty dollar.
It seems to be the way of life, why should boxing be any different? Minimize your risks while eliminating the ability for others to compete so you can feverishly feed until your host is completely drained and dies. Leaving the big shots bellies fat, and the rest with nothing but crumbs “if they’re lucky”, and tears for they’re years of loyalty and labor.
Take a look at almost any big industry out there that once thrived and supported our global economy and now is trying pull itself up off the canvas. All of which have fallen victim to the relentless greed of a select few. Take a look at the reeling Auto industry and the major car companies ran into the ground by CEO fat cats stuffing they’re wallets and leaving they’re loyal lower level workers empty handed and jobless. Seriously how many Chrysler 300’s do you see on the road on you way to work everyday. They made a killing on those often marking up the price because they were selling so well. So how did they go bankrupt?
My how the great have fallen? What about the banking and real estate industries that once flourished, and then collapsed and caused this whole global economic meltdown?
This happened due to over zealous predatory bank lending that were held to no regulatory standards or laws. In some cases lending to people without even proving income, or creating loans with unreasonable adjustable rates that the home buyer couldn’t afford.
Then after the fat cat feeding frenzy, the lower class were stuck with the bill via tax payers dollars as bail out money.
So why would boxing be immune to this corporate greed? The answer is it isn’t! As I see it there are three major factors contributing to the demise of boxing. One would be the arrival and success of MMA. This sport is almost always action pact pitting evenly matched fighters in a steel cage that produce entertaining fights 80% of the time. Don’t worry folks, it will eventually fall victim to the pursuit of money as well. Two is the fact there are multiple champions and belt holders in the same weight classes which almost every boxing fan see’s as redundant and ridiculous. Last but not least we have our gluttonous fat cats sucking our beloved sport dry.
Ultimately the moral to the story is this. Man’s greed and the pursuit of power and money threatens the existence of everything holy and sacred. At times It seems our entire existence as at risk. Our only hope for boxing is that when the blood sucking vampires are done feeding off the sport. Hopefully there will be something left for the ones that love the sport to resurrect and restore her back to righteousness.
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