Boxing needs to be on DVD for the sport to survive.

paulf, i can see it now tho...in NSB....threads titled 'Floyd's DVD's Have Outsold PAC's DVDs' :D Let's see who the REAL home media King is!!

this is a great idea. SSM career on dvd ****ing rigth

You know what would be awesome? Minute by minute commentary by the boxers themselves over the actual fights. Would be sweet to know what was going through their head after each punch.

Yeah I hate going to the dvd section and seeing that boxing doesn't have its own section. It shares an area with mma.. and while mma has so many different fights there's like 6 dvds on boxing all of them ali and tyson documentaries... don't get me wrong I like tyson and ali but id also like some fights! Like the MAB morales trilogy or a greatest hits of some fighter... Although I did pick up a sweet ass dvd of the greatest latin fighters.. but it was rather old (narrated by edward james olmos)

Having ANY fight available for download is the way to go. They can be remastered, 720p or 1080p.. Some can be purchased while others can remain free. Though I think physical media (printed disks) are dying. I like the idea of having fights on Bluray. Maybe they can have a fight where you're able to switch the fight commentary from HBO to Skybox to Top Rank, etc. Also they could have it where you're able to switch camera angles at will during the fight. I'd love to watch fights with the different broadcast teams. Watch Pac kicking someone's ass to the tune of Lampley's blow by blow or with British accents. Buy.

If they do make DVDs of fights such as Tyson vs. Lewis, hopefully they put the full broadcast. Not just the main event. If they did that it would be gold!

nah, what they need to do is sell them as if they were a TV series. HBO can have every year of Boxing as if it were one season. (like have "Boxing After Dark season 1", having all BAD broadcasts for the year in the bluray.) it'd be best so people can broaden their liking of unknown fighters. i would totally buy every Bluray available if they did this Sell it both ways.. The powers at be are well aware boxing fans can't hold their money. Most would buy boxer career sets and annual HBO sets. Fans could rationalize, I can't get see Sergio Martinez' earlier fights by buying 2010's HBO boxing set. They could have us rebuying the same fights 2 or 3 times with eventual rereleases.

Having ANY fight available for download is the way to go. They can be remastered, 720p or 1080p.. Some can be purchased while others can remain free. Though I think physical media (printed disks) are dying. I like the idea of having fights on Bluray. Maybe they can have a fight where you're able to switch the fight commentary from HBO to Skybox to Top Rank, etc. Also they could have it where you're able to switch camera angles at will during the fight.

this thread is good and true. i would buy plenty of fights on dvd espcially blue ray.

or i can pop in John Ruiz's Greatest Hits when i want everyone to leave :dance: The sad thing is we'll be able to buy a Couture/Toney DVD before any of the fantasies discussed in this thread.

I've thought this for years. I can go to Best Buy and pick up any UFC, WWE, NBA, MLB, NFL, etc, etc dvds, but rarely, any boxing dvds. The ones I have purchased, are from fighters that have retired long ago.

paulf, i can see it now tho...in NSB....threads titled 'Floyd's DVD's Have Outsold PAC's DVDs' :D nah, what they need to do is sell them as if they were a TV series. HBO can have every year of Boxing as if it were one season. (like have "Boxing After Dark season 1", having all BAD broadcasts for the year in the bluray.) it'd be best so people can broaden their liking of unknown fighters. i would totally buy every Bluray available if they did this

Hear me out here. This is the era of "I want it now." You survive and stay relevant by providing content and providing merchandise. In other words, in order to keep people interested, they need to be able to spend their money and time on you, or they find somewhere else to go spend it. This, in my opinion, is part of the reason Boxing doesn't generate as much interest anymore. Most boxing fans are boxer fans. They have the guys they like and want to watch, and aren't too interested in watching fighters they don't know/like get it on. But how is boxing keeping fans interested? The guy you like comes out once or twice a year to fight, and that's all you see of him? What else do they offer to keep you, as a fan and consumer, satisfied? Nothing. Compare that to the NBA. Those guys are in your face every weekend for months and months each year. And if you want more? Well, the Boston Celtics have 13 DVDs at their online store. Every year you can buy the Superbowl, NBA finals, and All kinds of Nascar **** on DVD to relive any time. What if you have a band you really like, but the only time you get to hear them is when they have a new song on the radio? You hear it the few times it plays, and if you want to hear it again you have to go through some complicated, illegal method of acquiring it? Would you even bother? Every awful show on TV has a season boxset on DVD mere months after the season ends. Why doesn't ESPN release a collection of the best fights (or every fight!) from each Friday Night Fights season the way TV shows release box sets? And HBO? I know their fights aren't on DVD because they don't retain the broadcast rights or whatever, but why can't they change that? Many HBO fighters are already grossly overpaid. By releasing individual broadcasts or yearly best-of DVDs all they'd be doing is giving fighters more exposure and encouraging people to be more interested in the the sport. What if, in the weeks before a Floyd Mayweather PPV match, someone could walk into Best Buy/Suncoast/WalMart and pick up a DVD of Floyd Mayweathers best fights? Wouldn't that raise their interest in seeing the match? UFC has already taken note; they release every UFC event shortly after it airs on DVD. And why the hell isn't 24/7, an Emmy winning series, on DVD?? Boxing needs to get it together. Networks are still doing things exactly the way they did them 15-20 year ago, and if they don't adjust the sport will continue to see it's base shrink smaller and smaller. Excellent post! ****ing strange too as I was going to put up a post to see if anyone could fire up a site for buying boxing DVD's as I'm sick of watching grainy assed you tube videos of old fights. I jam up sky box (sat TV) hardrive with fights from the box but always have to bin them after a while to free up space for some more fights or PPV's. Frustrating as f*ck.

I'd have an enhanced Special Edition Hagler, Leonard, Ali, Duran, Tyson.. list goes on etc etc. Let's be honest, for NSB posters we're better off this stuff isn't available. I can't afford for boxing to sell itself correctly. Here we are waiting to pump out money into the sport, but the only way they want to make money is by trying to talk us into buying a Sugar Shane/Sergio Mora PPV. Theyre doing it all wrong.

How awesome would it be if they upscaled some old fights! I'd buy a ridiculous amount of boxing DVD & Blu'rays if they did ever hit the shelves. I'd have an enhanced Special Edition Hagler, Leonard, Ali, Duran, Tyson.. list goes on etc etc. Let's be honest, for NSB posters we're better off this stuff isn't available. I can't afford for boxing to sell itself correctly.

How awesome would it be if they upscaled some old fights! I'd buy a ridiculous amount of boxing DVD & Blu'rays if they did ever hit the shelves. TV does upscale them when they are good enough to show it. Having a dvd recorder is a wonderful thing. Now if only they showed more of the classics.

How awesome would it be if they upscaled some old fights! I'd buy a ridiculous amount of boxing DVD & Blu'rays if they did ever hit the shelves.

for real fight fans, having that kind of 'polished' collection would be a must...i'd be at BestBuy every Tuesday forkin over money on whatever new boxing DVD/BluRays they have God forbid, you might even own Andre Berto's "career" set.. Dust it off every time there's a big fight to show your friends you're a real hardcore fan.

totally agreed...this fight fan would buy 90% of them Right? I only catch Friday Night Fights occasionally, but if every season was on DVD I would own them all. Here we are as fans, waiting to give our money to the sport, but "they're" not interested in getting it. Amazing. People think Paul Williams should be a bigger star. What if there was a Paul The Punisher Williams DVD sitting on the shelf at Wal Mart? Think of how much exposure the sport would get by having Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, ect in every Wal-Mart and Best Buy in American.

Hear me out here. This is the era of "I want it now." You survive and stay relevant by providing content and providing merchandise. In other words, in order to keep people interested, they need to be able to spend their money and time on you, or they find somewhere else to go spend it. This, in my opinion, is part of the reason Boxing doesn't generate as much interest anymore. Most boxing fans are boxer fans. They have the guys they like and want to watch, and aren't too interested in watching fighters they don't know/like get it on. But how is boxing keeping fans interested? The guy you like comes out once or twice a year to fight, and that's all you see of him? What else do they offer to keep you, as a fan and consumer, satisfied? Nothing. Compare that to the NBA. Those guys are in your face every weekend for months and months each year. And if you want more? Well, the Boston Celtics have 13 DVDs at their online store. Every year you can buy the Superbowl, NBA finals, and All kinds of Nascar **** on DVD to relive any time. What if you have a band you really like, but the only time you get to hear them is when they have a new song on the radio? You hear it the few times it plays, and if you want to hear it again you have to go through some complicated, illegal method of acquiring it? Would you even bother? Every awful show on TV has a season boxset on DVD mere months after the season ends. Why doesn't ESPN release a collection of the best fights (or every fight!) from each Friday Night Fights season the way TV shows release box sets? And HBO? I know their fights aren't on DVD because they don't retain the broadcast rights or whatever, but why can't they change that? Many HBO fighters are already grossly overpaid. By releasing individual broadcasts or yearly best-of DVDs all they'd be doing is giving fighters more exposure and encouraging people to be more interested in the the sport. What if, in the weeks before a Floyd Mayweather PPV match, someone could walk into Best Buy/Suncoast/WalMart and pick up a DVD of Floyd Mayweathers best fights? Wouldn't that raise their interest in seeing the match? UFC has already taken note; they release every UFC event shortly after it airs on DVD. And why the hell isn't 24/7, an Emmy winning series, on DVD?? Boxing needs to get it together. Networks are still doing things exactly the way they did them 15-20 year ago, and if they don't adjust the sport will continue to see it's base shrink smaller and smaller. I have no idea why fans have to buy unlicensed career sets off the internet. Best Buy would be so much more fun if I could buy fights. If I saw Khan's career in the bargain bin.. I might just pick it up? For 10 bucks why not, and it might turn me into a fan. And, I'd rebuy Pacquiao's career set for $80 with new footage and enhanced remastered versions of Hatton's KTFO on a yearly basis. I've always found it crazy you can't buy boxing in stores. Best you'll ever find is a DVD with a couple random Ali fights, which is nice but it could be so much better.