Come on now; boxing can never and will never die!

Lets hope boxing never dies..

Come on now; boxing can never and will never die! Boxing is an original classic, it will never die. Its the one contest worldwide that started it all, the root of all fighting without weapons except fists.

Man we need more in the UK .There's hardly any on the tv For real? I thought after football that boxing was your guys sport. So you know how we feel to then, that sucks.

Man we need more in the UK .There's hardly any on the tv

Well, first of all +1 for the Zappa av, one of my idols. Anyway, I've always felt that it's not really possible for boxing to ever die. It's been around forever, literally. However, it'll get smaller - professional boxing did that to itself by only having a few big fights a year, and with nothing but total and utter crap for the undercard which in turn stopped growing the sport and making fighters! I remember when I was a casual fan of boxing watching a card Mike Tyson was on, feeling bored and annoyed watching the fights before the Tyson fight. MMA, more specifically the UFC, has every fight on every one of their cards be a big fight, a really well matched fight. I just read an article on how PPV is cheaper for bars to buy UFC events rather than boxing, and UFC dates happen every moth without fail, stuff like that is what's killing boxing. I think stuff like Golden Boy's Fight Night Club is great, but it's too little too late, maybe if that was going on 20 years ago right after boxing was stopped being shown on World Wide of Sports it would have grown the sport, but I think it's too little too late now. It's like Jazz. Jazz ain't dead. A lot of it sucks, a lot of people have misconceptions about what jazz is, but trust me, it exists and will never die. It's just that both Jazz and Boxing had their height in the middle part of the 20th century. Makes me realize I was born about 5 decades too late.... Good to hear, Zappa is my ultimate idol. Green K for you for killer taste in music.

Boxing is fine. It ain't goin anywhere.

I know this is a obvious statement and everyone in here knows this, but with the recent thread of the long time closed circuit promoter saying boxing is dead makes me say this. Boxing is the worlds oldest sport and will live on longer than any other sport. Sure it may not be AS big here in the states as it used to be, but thanks to every other country in the world it is still doing very well. Even though American may not have a whole lot of great champs anymore, all the foreign fighters always fight here to make the big bucks. Even with the MMA which might be taking some attention away from boxing, I think it has also brought some attention back to boxing. Not all people love boxing and hate MMA and the other way around, I think there are a lot of people that like both. I know quite a few people who started watching boxing because they are MMA fans and just plain like to see hand to hand combat but didn't watch boxing before because it is not on free tv like UFC. Also there have been many lower periods throughout the years of boxing and it always bounces back. I am not worried the least bit about the future of boxing. It is too big to every die completely. Well, first of all +1 for the Zappa av, one of my idols. Anyway, I've always felt that it's not really possible for boxing to ever die. It's been around forever, literally. However, it'll get smaller - professional boxing did that to itself by only having a few big fights a year, and with nothing but total and utter crap for the undercard which in turn stopped growing the sport and making fighters! I remember when I was a casual fan of boxing watching a card Mike Tyson was on, feeling bored and annoyed watching the fights before the Tyson fight. MMA, more specifically the UFC, has every fight on every one of their cards be a big fight, a really well matched fight. I just read an article on how PPV is cheaper for bars to buy UFC events rather than boxing, and UFC dates happen every moth without fail, stuff like that is what's killing boxing. I think stuff like Golden Boy's Fight Night Club is great, but it's too little too late, maybe if that was going on 20 years ago right after boxing was stopped being shown on World Wide of Sports it would have grown the sport, but I think it's too little too late now. It's like Jazz. Jazz ain't dead. A lot of it sucks, a lot of people have misconceptions about what jazz is, but trust me, it exists and will never die. It's just that both Jazz and Boxing had their height in the middle part of the 20th century. Makes me realize I was born about 5 decades too late....

I was just watching ESPN's pardon the interruption and mike wilbon was comparing boxing to baseball cards when he said "We both grew up with them and we dont wont them to be dead, but its inevitable." Now i take what he says with a grain of salt really, but still its kind of sad to see a prominent sports reporter claim boxing is dead/dying That is too bad, but he will see that he is wrong. Maybe not immediately but he will some day.

I was just watching ESPN's pardon the interruption and mike wilbon was comparing boxing to baseball cards when he said "We both grew up with them and we dont wont them to be dead, but its inevitable." Now i take what he says with a grain of salt really, but still its kind of sad to see a prominent sports reporter claim boxing is dead/dying