“Boxing Is One of the Most Corrupt Sports”: Terence Crawford Sheds Light on the Antagonistic Struggle Between Professional Boxers and Promoters

In the “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, speaking about the wages of labour, Karl Marx declared that wages are derived from an “antagonistic struggle between the capitalist and the worker“. And given the fact that the capitalists owned the means of production, Marx announced that the victory went necessarily to the capitalist in this struggle. In the context of professional boxing, while the figures who own promotions have the capacity to stage an event and gain by appeasing the consumers, the athletes sell labor by dodging and enduring punches in order to procure their subsistence. To call a spade a spade, the boxers and the promoters have respectively replaced the workers and the capitalists today in pro boxing.

In his interview with entrepreneur Rich Kleiman, two-time undisputed champion Terence Crawford frankly touched upon the antagonistic struggle seen between the promoters and the boxers. Unhesitatingly, Crawford branded Boxing “one of the most corrupt sports” and commented on the ordinary and unfair wage boxers would receive to somehow prevent their race from extinction.

Terence Crawford breaks his silence on being duped by promoters in the business

Marx declared that “the lowest and only necessary wage rate is that providing for the subsistence of the worker for the duration of his work“. In strong agreement with this view, Crawford declared how boxers would often miss a fair amount they ideally deserve given the labor they expend in and outside the ring. “Boxing is one of the most corrupt sports there is and there has ever been in the history of sports. We’ll take a $5 million guarantee not knowing there’s $30 million that we missed,” he announced.

Along the above lines, Crawford declared how he would not initially “see the contracts and what’s really coming in“. However as soon as ‘Bud’ became conscious and asked necessary questions he had problems with his old promoter. “And at that point in time, I knew it was time to go,” said ‘Bud’. In addition, he mentioned how promoters like Don King and Bob Arum were also lawyers by profession and could likewise very well protect themselves and their interests.

“You gotta understand, all of these promoters like Don King and Bob Arum, they’re lawyers. And if they’re not lawyers, they got some of the baddest lawyers around them so they can give those types of contracts where they’re protecting themselves but they’re confusing you at the same time,” Crawford added. Along these lines, the 35-year-old also mourned his alienation from his own fights.

‘Bud’ sheds light on boxers’ alienation from their own fights

As Marx observed, capital meant the accumulation of labor. In other words, capital would depend upon the labor the worker would expend. Although the worker is responsible for the production of capital he doesn’t own it. At the end of the day, the labor is taken away from the worker “to an increasing extent [that] his own labour confronts him as another man’s property“. In the same manner, although the boxers labor, bleed, and provide entertainment, they do not own their fights. “You can sell your soul. We fight our a** off but we don’t own our fights, the promotional company owns our fights,” Crawford concluded.

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