A bloody joke

This extract from Dan Rafael's report on the Hopkins v Dawson fight basically says it all about why professional boxing has become such a shambles:

If you're a big boxing fan and support pay-per-views you have now been conned out of roughly $130 in the past month. You got ripped off with the crappy way the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Victor Ortiz fight ended Sept. 17 and now this monstrosity. And people wonder why boxing is so troubled? It's because the fans -- those of us who pour our hard-earned cash into the sport and allow it to exist -- are taken for granted by promoters, fighters, managers and networks.

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/7114210/fans-bernard-hopkins-left-crying-debacle

More of my thoughts on this to follow...