thought of the day 2009 11 28 - boxing

The thing I don't get about boxing, these two guys don't really have any valid reason for wailing on each other. And they're both getting paid. I mean sure, you get paid more if you win, but if the difference between me taking a right cross from Mike Tyson and walking away is fifty grand, then that's fifty grand I can probably live without you know? If they really wanted to have a good boxing match, they would give the boxers some real motivation. Like, make the loser dress up in a stripper's school girl outfit and walk down the strip in Vegas. That's motivation not to get your ass kicked. Or if one of them is married, get his wife drunk and have the opponent sleep with her. That would be motivation. Getting your teeth knocked in just for a paycheck seems like a bad idea.