Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Conor McGregor is threatening to be the biggest fight - biggest money wise at least - in boxing history. Perhaps this shouldn't be surprising considering the fact that one of its biggest selling points is that it will make a tremendous amount of money. It is being billed as "The Money Fight" after all.
"It is well to recognise that finance was the basis of the prize-ring from the first," wrote William Biggs Boulton when describing the earliest days of boxing. This has been true from the times of James Figg, boxing's first recognized champion, until today, as each generation found news ways to monetize the sport.