Why dont amateurs ever wanna turn pro (boxers)?

Take a look at a guy like Wilfred Benitez, who can't recognize his own family. There's your answer.

Pretty much to be honest. When you apply to the board of control they will want to know your amateur record, and if you have had little or no fights they will ask to see you in action sparring or gym fight before any licences will be granted, it's not a sport where it would be a good idea to do it though unless you can handle yourself defensivley pretty comfortably because after a few knockouts your gonna be done for. The type of guys you see with losing records are referred to as journeymen, and make a living from being called up at short notice to take fights often when someone else has cancelled or to pad out the record of a young prospect by doing enough to give him a challenge to learn from but not actually beat the guy. These journeymen are extremely important to boxing and do a great job in improving the learning curve of young fighters, it may look like they can't fight but that's because they make a good living doing enough to get through the rounds, if they kept winning they wouldn't get called up to fight a lot.

I'm talking from a business perspective, the professional game is not for the weak. If you're not on your business game promoters like King and Arum will take you to the cleaners. If you stay in the game too long you eventually get punch drunk or worse, Parkinsons. You live in obscurity for your first 20 or so fights and if you're not fighting tomato cans, you're career will end pretty quickly since the boxing industry favors promoting fighters with near perfect records.

You mentioned a female boxer. It's hard to make real money as a female boxer because the mainstream interest is near zero.

First off Oscar, the crap about Sugar not wanting to turn pro was just the necessary hype as they were constructed his good guy image. Hell, he planned to turn pro the day he picked up a pair of gloves like most fighters. I would image that people hesitate to turn pro because it will no longer be a hobby or something they can do casually. A professional career ups the ante and the competition gets a lot tougher.

There are many who fight amateur with no intention of becoming a professional.

The people who make big money in any professional fights, let alone, their first few fights, are very rare.

Most professional fighters never make much money.

Most people box and train because they enjoy it, not because they might make money doing it.

I have known lots of people who never thought about going pro.

Well think of the consequences if you go in the professional boxing league its more intense and getting hit in your head will make you hav ememory loss and serious brain damage

it is more aggressive in pro boxing, and if you become a flop u have wasted your career. gd Q tho