Negotiations Have Broken Down Again...

[Goodnight, Irene]

Many stories over the decades of fighters who were tough cookies at the negotiating table.

Which fighters might never have gotten to putting pen to paper, had they shared an era? Ray Robinson & Oscar De La Hoya would've had one hell of a scrap for coin outside the ring, I'll wager...

[Datsue]

Many stories over the decades of fighters who were tough cookies at the negotiating table.

Which fighters might never have gotten to putting pen to paper, had they shared an era? Ray Robinson & Oscar De La Hoya would've had one hell of a scrap for coin outside the ring, I'll wager...

Can you imagine Ray Leonard & De La Hoya? The mind boggles. They'd be there for fecking years...

"I want a seventy foot ring & eighteen ounce gloves..."

"No, I insist upon a fifteen foot ring & no gloves at all! & we do the fight at a catchweight of 161.5 lbs, so we can fight for your title, my title & the newly created "Overpaid & Has Too Much Influence"-weight title on the same night..."

[Ambling Alp]

We don't really know what all goes on in negotiations for fights. What we do know is that Ray Robinson fought better competition than anyone else of his era, Ray Leonard fought better competition than anyone else in his era, and De La Hoya also fought the best competition of his era.