For old boxers, of course, titles are no longer the main focus for them, they will offer to compete in exhibition boxing fights if the pay is worth it, as in the fight between Mayweather Vs Logan Paul which is quite sensational and strange because in terms of achievements, it is clear that the fight was not worth it, but because Paul Logan has a lot of money and his influence as a YouTuber will certainly be an attraction for the audience to watch the fight, so that Mayweather does not hesitate to accept the challenge and earn quite a lot of money eve though their boxing win record is very much different, namely Mayweather 50 wins while Paul Logan 0 wins.
Funny to say but nothing is needed to compare it's all because of money that's why Mayweather accept that fight, the fans or maybe we can say audiences are the one who push those two known personalities to make an exhibition fight which promoters see the advantage that they will earn huge money from this kind of exhibition fight.
No bearing and Mayweather is assured to pocket millions of dollars here, just a practice or sparring type of fight, but he will be paid by millions of dollars. That's how wise and greed Mayweather was.
.The thing is that it's becoming more prevalent lately, of course we understand if it will just be for entertainment when we are in a lock down and organizations think of alternative like this one. But now, everyone is on the bandwagon, Floyd, Paul brothers, old boxers that some old school head thinks that it is destroying the image of boxer or MMA itself, just saying.
I agree with that sentiment now that the entire industry is back we should give way for the real fights and support them, though we can still buy tickets for exhibition or special events, right? it's more on how the promoters will value some good exhibition fight and allow fans to see their legendary fighters to step inside the ring and show their remaining skills.
We know that inside the warrior's heart, fighting is still one of the best thing that they wanted to continue doing.
as this type of boxing match is still selling tickets, the promoters behind this activity will continue to take advantage of this situation. but would be nice if they are setting-up good exhibition matches and not just because of clear intentions of pocketing the money from the boxing community. from time to time, we need entertainment. but should at least worth our pennies. and not just pulled out from somewhere, where the "boxers" themselves are not ready to rumble inside the ring.
There's a risk too on the side of promoters as they should organize an exhibition match that is really living the hype.
They can't just form a match randomly just because they want it. I do agree that there will be more people that will still support exhibition matches as long as those fighters involved are worthy to watch.
A fight between a famous one against a non-popular one can also do the trick. I don't know but money is really flowing at exhibition matches.
I've been asking myself the same question, like why are exhibition matches so hyped these days? People already know that the fight is somehow scripted but they still want to pay good money to watch the fight in person or live in their respective homes.
Maybe because the people have missed seeing the good veteran fighters fighting again that once built their names in their primes or maybe there is another reason why but yes, exhibition fights are also a good way to get good money these days as long as you're popular.
Maybe yes or just because of the pandemic and those people are just bored and wanted to see some old fighters to be inside the ring again, we all know that abusers are always around just like how the Paul bro did and so with Mayweather they all earn a lot during this exhibition matches.