Matchmaking in boxing is a business with complex incentives that don't always align with what fans want to see. A promoter's primary obligation is to their client, not to making the most competitive fights. This creates the career progression of fighting 'easy' mandatory challengers before the real tests come. The political complexity of competing promoters having fighters on opposite sides makes some obvious matchups nearly impossible to make.
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Matchmaking in boxing is a business with complex incentives that don't always align with what fans want to see. A promoter's primary obligation is to their client, not to making the most competitive fights. This creates the career progression of fighting 'easy' mandatory challengers before the real tests come. The political complexity of competing promoters having fighters on opposite sides makes some obvious matchups nearly impossible to make.
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