because promoting boxers has become a game of "the most money right NOW" there are fewer opportunities to actually build and grow a fighter's profile. Promoters get skewered if they even consider taking less money for a better opportunity, or fighters price themselves out, so hometown fights rarely happen for fighters that don't live in boxing hubs. Though Boots isn't sacrificing a bigger fight to make this happen (he doesn't have access to one), it would be cheaper to just put this on in a ballroom in Atlantic City, but Eddie works this way, and it's smart and hopefully catches on. Unfortunately for Matchroom, the last couple of times they tried this (Regis in New Orleans and matias in Puerto Rico), the hometown guy laid an egg. Not expecting that with Boots.
because promoting boxers has become a game of "the most money right NOW" there are fewer opportunities to actually build and grow a fighter's profile. Promoters get skewered if they even consider taking less money for a better opportunity, or fighters price themselves out, so hometown fights rarely happen for fighters that don't live in boxing hubs. Though Boots isn't sacrificing a bigger fight to make this happen (he doesn't have access to one), it would be cheaper to just put this on in a ballroom in Atlantic City, but Eddie works this way, and it's smart and hopefully catches on. Unfortunately for Matchroom, the last couple of times they tried this (Regis in New Orleans and matias in Puerto Rico), the hometown guy laid an egg. Not expecting that with Boots.