Quote from: Silberman on Today at 03:33:30 AM

Quote from: serjent05 on September 08, 2022, 08:25:53 PM

Quote from: TravelMug on September 08, 2022, 08:21:12 AM

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 do not think an exhibition like that is destroying the image of boxing or MMA. It is an exhibition match, it has nothing to do with what sports they are in. It has no bearing or is even deemed as an official rank fight. It is there to entertain people, besides I think it even promotes boxing sports.

Even if I am not a fan of those exhibitions fights because I do not think that you can actually get to see the best displays of boxing skill in those fights, I do not really think that such fights are damaging or destroying the image of boxing, I'm pretty sure that people understand that those fights are not serious and that they should be regarded differently from the professional fights that we get to see, this is in fact something that is very common in soccer in which there is a very obvious difference in the intensity in which a friendly match is played and a match where something is at stake.

I say that it is somewhat damaging because there are boxing fans that don't like this kind of exhibitions. Maybe those are really hard core fans of the sports and not just casual fans who just want to be entertained. Boxing for them is science science, and Floyd was a pupil of this because of his lineage, Uncle and his Father. But it seems that he really doesn't care for his legacy, but for the money as we have seen others follow him with exhibition and cross over fights. I guess it depends on the individual on how they see it.