Yes, I greatly agree. I always believe that an exhibition fight promotes the sports it involved with. The main factor in this kind of fight is promotion and of course money-making, either for charity or personal gain.
It also tap the curiosity of people about a cross matches between fighting sports but the problem is that, it is always the fighter who cross over to that sports has the disadvantage since they are not that familiar with the discipline and mechanics of the sports. One good example is the fight between a boxer and a wrestler in a boxing rule. Obviously the wrestler would have a huge disadvantage here and we see the result in one of Jake Pauls fight.
I do not agree with most exhibition fights but as I said this is a breath of new life for the boxing industry, for some cases I really don't like other sports like wrestling to mingle with a boxer in a boxing match, but if that Wrestler can prove that he surely has a boxing skill, then maybe I can consider we can not take out on people the desire to show what they got in boxing, but if it is for money (most of the time) it can have a good effect and a bad effect aswell, it is like a red pill and a blue pill whichever you chose will surely make a different effect most exhibition fights that I want to see that boxer and combat sports alike is a fight between Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou, I am sure curious about that fight, and some example Idea I had in mine, Alex Pereira or any middleweight boxers that are still active,
They are different sports. I am a fan of boxing and MMA, however you have made a very head shaking argument. You argue that MMA is not as ultimate because retired MMA fighters cannot win against Jake Paul in boxing? Why not the best professional boxers fight in MMA to prove that MMA is not as ultimate as it may sound? I estimate that there may be 1 of those boxers who might win, however, I am quite certain the other 9 would never return.
I certainly agree, why not level the playing field and boxers be on the MMA set of rules, and as you have said why does it always have to be a boxing exhibition, why not an MMA exhibition or put the 2 fighters in different combat sports that they are not familiar with or they can fight as long as they don't fight on their qualifying expertise, a boxer of MMA fighter fighting on fencing, Archery, or if not combat sports, basketball perhaps, we can not compare boxing and MMA because it has different fields and both are very hard to teach and learn, for me if a fighter would fight on MMA a boxer can still be a boxer, while the MMA fighter can be free in everything they do, I think the MMA will surely win against a boxer,