On May 1, Beijing time, New York will hold a world-renowned women's boxing summit duel, when the female boxing champion Katie Taylor of the four major lightweight organizations will encounter seven levels of world champion Serrano, and this competition is also one of the heaviest women's professional boxing battles ever.
According to foreign media disclosures, the appearance fees of Taylor and Serrano in this battle have reached 7 figures, reaching the level of tens of millions of yuan, creating a record for the honorarium of women's professional boxing, in the past, women's professional boxing was not much valued by the outside world, although there were legendary players such as Christie Martin, Lyra Ali, Lucia Leker, etc., but their appearance fees were generally only six figures, and Sunday's peak showdown raised the commercial value of women's boxing to an unprecedented new high. This has played a good role in promoting the balanced development of professional boxing.
Regrettably, due to the impact of the epidemic, all walks of life in China are in the economic downturn, the mainland professional boxing has also reached a trough in the past two years, investors are reluctant to invest money to run the tournament, and 80% of professional boxers have to change careers to make a living because they have no games to play.
A few days ago, the author wrote an article "Chinese boxing profession is abolished", in the circle of forwarding is very large, the text does not exaggerate or demean anyone, everything from the actual point of view of the current situation of Chinese professional boxing, most people are very agreed with the content of the article, but there are also a few rabble-rousers after reading the angry jumping feet, but they are powerless to change the status quo of life, can only be mixed at the bottom, and gave the author a "short professional boxing" hat. What I want to say is that my contribution to Professional Boxing in China is far from being comparable to your small group of rabble-rousers, and there is a distance of 30,000 light years between us, and we have lifted you up to be described as "the difference between clouds and mud".
The author also needs to emphasize that the impact of the existence of the epidemic on society is multifaceted, and professional boxing as a domestic niche sport is naturally not spared. To be fair, in China, free fighting has developed much better than professional boxing, but free fighting has also not held any competitions in the past two years, because of the investment promotion and its difficulties, free fighting has fallen so tragically, let alone domestic professional boxing? The main reason for the domestic professional boxing to this situation is the epidemic.
Of course, looking at the world, free fighting is just a third-rate sport that does not rank up, and its commercial value is 108,000 miles away from professional boxing, and it is not worthy of professional boxing shoes, but it has been done well in the mainland in the past few years. Then again, when we see that foreign female boxers' honorariums have received tens of millions of yuan, Chinese professional boxers should really reflect!