[Senator Clay Davis]

"Boxing is dead/almost dead" comments in a thread about an MMA fighter choosing to get into a boxing ring for the first time ever professionally, so that he can earn more in one night than he would in his next ten years of MMA fights combined....hmmmmmm. Yeah boxing has a multitude of issues no doubt, and it's popularity isn't what it once was, but with this fight, Canelo-JCCJr, Canelo-GGG and Joshua-Klitchsko, that's four fights that will generate as much money as all MMA fights this year will combined, maybe even by twofold.

Boxing's problem is the best guys never fight each other because promoters (and fighters too) are too scared to expose guys to potential losses, Floyd being one of the prime examples of this. But when boxing does give us the best against the best (or sideshows like this), it dwarfs what MMA brings in financially. Boxing just needs a monopoly promotion like the UFC to have all the best fighters under one promotion, and matchmaking that actually gives us best on best.