Guys, what do you think about those famous people in other sports (like UFC, MMA) then suddenly will shift into boxing, not via professional boxing, but as an exhibition match? Or those who are already retired but suddenly will participate in an exhibition match against a non-boxer. It was all started by Floyd Mayweather Jr. and then from there, lots of boxing exhibition matches have been executed.
And the sad part, these people who are participating in exhibition matches are being paid more compared to professional boxers.
Many of my friends say that most of these exhibition fights are happening only for entertainment purposes.
Hence most of the fights are scripted and the fighters are being mega paid to do the fight as per the script.
This is how the sponsors are gaining money and I guess this might be the truth. This is the reason why I don't like exhibition fights.
WWE Wrestling is considered an exhibition and for entertainment only but we cannot say that on the Paul brothers type of exhibitions, Tyron Woodley's knock out is brutal and those punches landed are hard, on boxing, it's hard to do a script because the boxing community is used to seeing real punches being thrown, the exhibition matches presented to us by the Paul brothers are more than entertaining because both fighters are not professional boxers they are on other fields trying to present themselves in boxing and people are supporting this because there's a lot of unexpected things happening.