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A much shorter list would be Best Business Boxers. Ali & Foreman. Ali is the only boxer I've ever heard who used the term tax free municipal bonds. Probably learned it from Bob Arum.

Talking about immediate gratification, boxers who are almost all poor are poster children of spend now, worry later. They understandably want to do things immediately like but their Mom a big house. You don't hear, I'll pay my taxes first and live off the dividends and interest.

How much would Mayweather have gotten for a GGG fight? How much would RJJ have gotten to fight Wlad? I don't know if they would have been good business decisions but I know I would have paid to watch.

andy ruiz gonna be broke in no time, got like 7 kids, divorce coming up, and spends hundreds of thousands and more stuff like jewelrey

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑04 May 2023, 19:31 andy ruiz gonna be broke in no time, got like 7 kids, divorce coming up, and spends hundreds of thousands and more stuff like jewelrey

This was ur thread ..

Thomastearns wrote: ↑14 Jun 2018, 03:32

klitoris wrote: ↑13 Jun 2018, 20:50 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.

King outsmarted people for a living. A very comfortable one.