Brian, you hit the nail on the head. Boxing needs strong participation, reason for men of today to want to box instead of looking down other roads. In the film industry, producers are like boxing promoters, it's all about money. However, we once had a great producer whom everybody in town desired to work with, and that was Michael Landon, whose success was multiplied by his kind and generous treatment of his employees. I know this for a fact, because I was one of them. In Hollywood, when Michael Landon died, so died the goose that laid the golden egg. Michael, like Oscar, took a talented group of film professionals, artists and technicians, and gave us every opportunity to be the best we could be and the result was a successful production year-after-year. He spent money, and he made huge money. He was a true television icon . . . Great actor, producer, writer, director and human being. Like Oscar, Mike had an ego, but what over achiever does not? If Oscar, like Landon, is for the overall good of boxing and boxers, he will remain a success. My opinion.Expug wrote:Rick,thats good news about how Oscar looks after fighters.
My thoughts are, in the long run, that could be one thing that helps keep this sport on the map.
The last thing boxing needs is more gangsterism when mma and even youth soccer are taking away fans and more importantly, PARTICIPANTS.
-Rick
I'm sure all of us that watch the fight will be writing about it tomorrow. It'll be later in the day for me. I have to be at work at 4:00 in the morning. That kinda dampens my night a little but I have done it a thousand times before. 
