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I'm a free agent. I haven't allowed any promoters to have exclusive options on my fight. I don't need a promoter.

— Sugar Ray Leonard

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.

— Katie Taylor

Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.

— T.I.

In my era of wrestling, there were no guaranteed contracts, so it was inherent that you draw the crowd in to make money.

— Jesse Ventura

But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.

— Billy Joe Saunders

It is my job to sell these fighters. I'm now a business partner of the UFC. What I do directly affects my paycheck. I try my best. I just don't want people to be indifferent.

— Daniel Cormier

I do not fight for free. But I was born to be a fighter.

— Roberto Duran

I signed a contract to fight at UFC 187, so I'm going to fight at UFC 187, whoever it is against. It's the same thing.

— Donald Cerrone

I don't want to be the kind of wrestler that has to do it because he needs the money.

— Rey Mysterio

✗Opposing Perspectives

Don King is my promoter, and I want to fight for him. I want to fight in the big fights, and hopefully he can see by me promoting my own show, beating a quality opponent, and bringing a crowd in, that he needs to use me again. The end goal is I want to be thrown in the deep end by Don King. If I'm not good enough, let's find out.

— Mark de Mori

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

— Lorna Luft