How do the need of quick money relate to the boxing industry?

Just wondering why people who need alot of money without doing alot of work would chose to go have a career in the boxing industry. What do you think ? Is there more reasons?|||pacquiao is the number money maker right now in boxing. in boxing industry, money is important, not because you show them off to other people, like Lil floyd does, but it's important because of pacquiao. he's the face of boxing right now.|||Boxing requires a huge amount of discipline and work. It takes years and years of training just to get a fight. The big money only happens to maybe 50 out of 500,000 boxers.|||I do not believe there has been a fighter in the history of boxing who was dumb enough to get into boxing for "quick" money. In fact the latest numbers I heard when John McCain was making a case for a national body in boxing was 91% of boxers never make enough money to retire on.





Most boxers have to start amature careers when there around 17 and on average fight anywhere from 2 to 5 years for free, most of time having to pay there own way to events, find there own lodging unless they happen to live in some of the big amateur boxing cities. It鈥檚 a reason you don鈥檛 see allot of great fighters come out of Canada. We have very few cities that host allot of pro or amateur contests making it very difficult for fighters to get any experience. If you ever look at a Canadian Boxers record most say they fight out of either BC,Toronto,Montreal or Halifax.





Becoming a hugely profitable boxer is very hard, talent alone is not enough; becoming a world famous boxer is more about Image then talent unless you鈥檙e a big banger who puts on exciting fights either by getting allot of knockouts or being a human punching bag. There are all kinds of talented fighters that never even get seen on TV.





Even guys like Oscar DeLaHoya one of the highest paid fighters in the sports history, who had the charm, the boyish good looks, the smile and the punch fought for almost 10 years including his amateur days and never made a buck until singing with one of the biggest promoters in the world Bob Arum, and even after he signed with Arum he needed to win some high profile fights before he would be making superstar money.





And for your comment that boxers don鈥檛 do allot of work? Thats horribly insulting, first of all if a fighter goes in the ring and only fights for 1 minute and makes a good buck, there is the whole training going into that one minute, there is the 3 months of hard training without sex, drinks or fun of any kind, working out until you throw up and then going at it again, There is the number of pro fights and training camps that became before that fight and then there is the amateur fighting and training dedicating your entire youth to a dream that might fizzle out or get you killed. And if you are one of the very few lucky fighters to make it to retirement with a bank full of money you have braindamage, tremors,parkinsons,headaches,muscle pains, involentary spasms, scars and a beaten face to look forward too. Your old, no one cares anymore and all you can do is wish you could be in that spotlight one more time.





But if you don鈥檛 know then you don鈥檛 know, you can go on being ignorant if you like or go down to your local boxing gym and see if you can last 15 minutes in a circuit training session, stay with it a few months and try and get in a sparring session and see if your knees can handle it, see if you have the guts to throw a punch or cower and fall down from fear like allot of first timers who never come back to the club again. Then come on here and air your ignorant opinion that boxing is easy.|||There is no such thing as quick money in boxing, it takes years of hard work, and talent, and a little luck to make the type of money top earners make in boxing.|||Quick money comes from the bets. There are lots of unregulated fights staged by hustlers and fly by night promoters who just want the quick cash they get from the gambling side of it while enjoying the brutality in the ring. And if you're a bum who's a magnet for brawls and streetfights, wouldn't you rather fight for pay than have your face smashed without any compensation?


The highly paid superstars are a few but for someone who knows nothing other than fighting, earning half a thousand for a few minutes fighting is quick cash. There are actual bums/criminals who become boxing superstars. Iron Mike Tyson's one of them.|||There is a major amount of work involved in being a successful fighter and making good money, but most don't get that far. Most boxers turn pro at a young age, maybe late teens early 20's and retire in their mid-30's if they're lucky, so they have a very limited amount of time to make good money and they also have to keep winning. I sparred for 5 rounds without training and was about ready to collapse after, so it goes to show the work that is needed