Kevin Lole from Yahoo! Sports gave his advice to several boxers and those who play a big roll in the boxing industry and one advice that I can’t argue with is that many boxers including, Tim Bradley, Alfredo Angulo and Andre Berto don’t seem to understand, if you cant sell any tickets then maybe your not worth what you think your worth.
Angulo is an entertaining fighter, but he’s delusional. He turned down $750,000 earlier this year to fight middleweight champion Sergio Martinez. I’m all for boxers making as much as they can, given the risks they take, but Angulo and a number of other fighters like them (I’m thinking of you, Timothy Bradley and Andre Berto) seem to have lost sight of the value of a dollar. They scoff at purses like $750,000 like it’s minimum wage when they barely sell any tickets. Promoter Gary Shaw had to buy tickets himself at a July card in Palm Springs in order to get 1,800 tickets sold when both Angulo and Bradley were on the card. If you can’t sell tickets, you’re not worth $1 million (or $750,000, for that matter). We need to get back to the day when boxers are required to sell tickets as part of their contracts.
Do you agree or disagree?
Where is Angulo???????
Angulo should have taken that money.
Who knows, he may have been the one to fight Paul Williams could have been in a different predicament right now.
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