worst business boxers

[jamamb]

which fighters are bad at business ? any examples of particularly bad moves?

ggg is said to have just turned down an increased offer from canelos camp for a 60-40 split that would probably see golovkin earn about 20m. now he can go make 2m to fight someone. what a dumb dumb. watch him now lose to a guy like derevycanko, murata, saunders, etc

tom LOL-ffler and dumb gennady (in a business sense of course)

[Boxerbeetle]

Amir Khan effectively wasted a few years of his career and missed out on a few decent paydays chasing a Mayweather fight which was never going to happen, if that counts.

[gilgamesh]

Mickey Bey being convinced to drop his IBF Title by Haymon when it was the one and only thing that made him an opponent that people would want to face is one of the dumber moves I've seen.

Winky Wright made some bone headed moved.

Ditto Shane Mosley when he turned down Oscar 3, to take on Winky for significantly less money.

Sometimes you gotta have pride and do things your way.

I don't consider GGG's move here to be bad business really. I think he's perfectly justified in wanting more, and moving on if he doesn't get it. He's still the man to beat in the division, and still will make a very comfortable living with or without Canelo.

[Sids]

Mike tyson.

[klitoris]

which fighters are bad at business ? any examples of particularly bad moves?

ggg is said to have just turned down an increased offer from canelos camp for a 60-40 split that would probably see golovkin earn about 20m. now he can go make 2m to fight someone. what a dumb dumb. watch him now lose to a guy like derevycanko, murata, saunders, etc

tom LOL-ffler and dumb gennady (in a business sense of course)

You assume that all boxers fight only for the money. GGG already proved that he can beat Roidnelo. He will do more for his boxing legacy if he rather unifies more belts or moves to conquer the 168 division.

[Boxing Prospect]

JMM springs to mind here

[greg]

..so, if both parties in fact will agree on 60/40 split instead of 65/35, how would that make GGG the worst business boxer?

[Sids]

Mike Tyson was pretty careless back in the day.

[Sids]

Heard Brian Rose put his house on the first Carson Jones fight.

[Stuarty]

Ricky Burns should be a lot better off than he is, no thanks to Mr Fwank!

[Noxy]

Mike Tyson was pretty careless back in the day.

Aye, although was that not outside the ring? I think he did very well out of boxing.

[SenorPipino]

JMM springs to mind here

Is that because he claims he turned down a 5th Pacquiao fight in which he was offered $100 million?

I find it difficult to believe that that much money was on the table.

But he was stupid for rejecting that 5th fight for what undoubtedly would have been a career high purse.

He had just KO'd Pacquiao, so Marquez' box office value was at its peak.

Instead Marquez walked away from TR's offer, fought Bradley and lost for what would have been a fraction of what the Pacquiao fight would have paid him.

He was another guy who mistakenly put legacy ahead of business and in a manner of speaking, paid the price.

[Boxing Prospect]

JMM springs to mind here

Is that because he claims he turned down a 5th Pacquiao fight in which he was offered $100 million?

I find it difficult to believe that that much money was on the table.

But he was stupid for rejecting that 5th fight for what undoubtedly would have been a career high purse.

He had just KO'd Pacquiao, so Marquez' box office value was at its peak.

Instead Marquez walked away from TR's offer, fought Bradley and lost for what would have been a fraction of what the Pacquiao fight would have paid him.

He was another guy who mistakenly put legacy ahead of business and in a manner of speaking, paid the price.

Because he got pennies to face Chris John, among other poor decisions

[Stuarty]

JMM springs to mind here

Is that because he claims he turned down a 5th Pacquiao fight in which he was offered $100 million?

I find it difficult to believe that that much money was on the table.

But he was stupid for rejecting that 5th fight for what undoubtedly would have been a career high purse.

He had just KO'd Pacquiao, so Marquez' box office value was at its peak.

Instead Marquez walked away from TR's offer, fought Bradley and lost for what would have been a fraction of what the Pacquiao fight would have paid him.

He was another guy who mistakenly put legacy ahead of business and in a manner of speaking, paid the price.

Because he got pennies to face Chris John, among other poor decisions

That's a fight I've never seen! Was JMM robbed?

[SenorPipino]

Is that because he claims he turned down a 5th Pacquiao fight in which he was offered $100 million?

I find it difficult to believe that that much money was on the table.

But he was stupid for rejecting that 5th fight for what undoubtedly would have been a career high purse.

He had just KO'd Pacquiao, so Marquez' box office value was at its peak.

Instead Marquez walked away from TR's offer, fought Bradley and lost for what would have been a fraction of what the Pacquiao fight would have paid him.

He was another guy who mistakenly put legacy ahead of business and in a manner of speaking, paid the price.

Because he got pennies to face Chris John, among other poor decisions

That's a fight I've never seen! Was JMM robbed?

I've never seen it either but there are those who claimed Marquez wad robbed and others who say John deserved the decision.

We await word from those who have actually witnessed it.

[Heretic]

This is bit different from the others but Pacquiao made shit loads of money and somehow he still was broke for good portion of hes career.

I hope he has got wiser at the tail end of hes career.

I don't know how much Kovalev got from the Ward fights but he surely had to eat loads of bullshit for it. Probably a bad deal.

[Boxing Prospect]

Because he got pennies to face Chris John, among other poor decisions

That's a fight I've never seen! Was JMM robbed?

I've never seen it either but there are those who claimed Marquez wad robbed and others who say John deserved the decision.

We await word from those who have actually witnessed it.

Because its a mega obscure fight?


He got about $31,000 apparently for the fight...

[jamamb]

its pretty f@cking hilarious to me that someone here once gave marquez (and hopkins) as fighters who took defeat with grace and accepted it. they were two of the biggest moaners in boxing

john-marquez was far closer then jmms huggers want to admit. i think some ppl ahead of time decided no way that john could be competitive with him

[man]

Amir Khan effectively wasted a few years of his career and missed out on a few decent paydays chasing a Mayweather fight which was never going to happen, if that counts.

he came pretty close to get there.

[Ruthless-RKO]

WELL!!! Clearly.. GGG is a bad businessman.

[tiny_acres]

WELL!!! Clearly.. GGG is a bad businessman.

Obviously. You know making several more millions and an additional 7 and a half percent is just freaking stupid

[klitoris]

All the boxers who dealt with Don King and didn't read what they were signing, which is most of them.

[Shirow]

Peter Quillin - remember him?

[Thomastearns]

All the boxers who dealt with Don King and didn't read what they were signing, which is most of them.

Don King was a lot cleverer than people gave credit. He realised the psychological impact that large sums of cash could have on fighters who like most of us, were not used to seeing 100k 'casually' lying around. He was the predecessor of all those rappers who used the same trick.

And of course he used verbose language to impress and happily played the race card and whatever other card he could to convince fighters to sign. Then there was his legendary persistence, he simply didn't give up till he got a signature.

Why he did all this, I'm not sure even he knows why.

[punchoutsb]

WELL!!! Clearly.. GGG is a bad businessman.

Obviously. You know making several more millions and an additional 7 and a half percent is just freaking stupid

Yeah, a total "dumb dumb". If only jamamb had got to him first to enlighten him