It's been a bad year for boxing.....why though???

I think it's the aftermath of the Mayweather retirement. Ofcourse it would take a toll on boxing to have him leave undefeated and unblemished. GGG is too old to be a star, his carreer is over almost before it has really begun. Canelo is still very young, could've hoped for a Pacquaio fight. The Cotto fight was good though. Fury went mental and suddenly we actually don't have a king of heavyweight, only speculations. Thurman - Porter was a highlight. And where'd Broner go? He was entertaining and now he's under a rock? Honestly who cares about Pacquiao anymore, he doesn't want hard fights anymore, fair enough, but it makes him dull to follow. What else, we have a guy like Danny Garcia who's really not that interesting either, we all know what happens if he meets a good fighter. Amir Khan got balls, but his stardom must have taken a downgrade and perhaps many more things too. Kell Brook got stopped too early by his corner, in a good fight, I thought it was such a shame, as this fight was a big highlight for me. We need a new Carl Froch, someone that can really surprise hardcore boxing. A new-age cinderella man. I look to Ward - Kovalev to redeem boxing and for one of them to secure that P4P crown, so we can all go on to hate / cheer for the winner. Gonna be a great fight, but probably not as explosive as people think - But definitely edge of seat.

It's really not as bad as people make it out to be. Pbc has not been as active as we want, klit never got the fury rematch, pov-wilder never happened, cotto couldn't get a ppv date, and nobody still has balls to fight golovkin. Outside of that, we've had some great fights this year, and Nov + Dec have some great matches!

There actually were some pretty good fights this year, the problem was that they were too far in between. Many fan favorite fighters fought only once, which is a damn shame. Guys like Thurman, Garcia, Porter, LSC, and others should be fighting 3 times a year.

the whole idea of marinating is getting very boring, but it hasn't been such a bad year given that both of the UK's welters that we'd hoped fight each other both ended up in 'take-you-by-huge-surprise' payday match ups with middleweights, the 2 middleweights you'd really like to see fight each other too. All the PED/drug stuff has wrecked the HW fights this year.. Fury-Wlad, Wilder-Povetkin, even all that stuff with Chaegev Browne, still worrying. We also got david haye back, on free tv which is passable, but I wish he'd have got in there with something better than what would be a low level sparring partner to him. A lot can be redeemed finally seeing Ward-Kov, Loma-Walters, and the salido vargas fight was amazing, FOTY contender, and the loma-martinez ending was also spectacular.

You have boxers talking the talking and not walking the walk. For example chris eubank jr BJS canelo All talk. There's a lot of good fights to be made. We keep hearing that they'll get made and then nothing happens. That's what's dragging boxing down. Thurman porter and frampton cruz did happen but apart from that nothing much else. Now kovalev ward. If there was more of these match ups boxing would definitely be back in the mainstream media.

It was bad but wasn't as bad as people make it out to be 1-16-16 Wilder/Spzilika 1-23-16 Garcia/Gurrero 1-23-16 Breazeale/Mansour 2-27-16 Frampton/Quigg 3-5-16 Browne/Chagaev 3-5-16 Vargas/Ali 3-26-16 Ward/Barrera 4-2-16 Duhapas/Helenius 4-2-16 Molina/Adamek 4-9-16 Joshua/Martin 4-9-16 Gvozdyk/Mohamedi 4-9-16 Valdez/Grodvich 4-9-16 Ramirez/Abraham 4-9-16 Pacquaio/Bradley 4-16-16 Spence/Algeri 4-16-16 Glowchki/Cunningham 4-23-16 Gonzalez/Arroyo 4-30-16 Washington/Chambers 4-30-16 Lara/Montiel 4-30-16 Williams Jr/Rodriguez 4-30-16 Berto/Ortiz 4-30-16 Jack/Bute 5-7-16 Pulev/Chisora 5-7-16 Stevens/Tixeria 5-7-16 Canelo/Khan 5-21-16 Parker/Takam 5-21-16 Lebedev/Ramirez 5-21-16 Haye/Gjeraj 5-21-16 Lara/Martirosyan 5-21-16 Charlo/Trout 6-4-16 Vargas/Salido 6-11-16 Andrade/Nelson 6-11-16 Molina/Provodnikov 6-11-16 Lomachenko/Maritnez 6-25-16 Groves/Murray 6-25-16 Thurman/Porter 7-16-16 Diaz/Vazquez 7-23-16 Valdez/Rueda 7-23-16 Crawford/Postol 7-29-16 Stevenson/Williams Jr 7-30-16 Garcia/Rojas 7-30-16 Harrison/Rabchenko 7-30-16 Frampton/Cruz 9-10-16 Golovkin/Brook 9-10-16 Gonzalez/Cuadras 9-17-16 Monroe/Rosado 9-17-16 Canelo/Smith 9-24-16 Linares/Crolla I know August and October has nothing but it was a decent year and we got 11-5-16 Pacquaio/Vargas 11-12-16 Ortiz/Scott 11-19-16 Ward/Kovalev 11-26-16 Lomachenko/Walters 12-10-16 Joshua/Molina 12-10-16 Charlo/J-Rock 12-10-16 Culler/Mares 12-10-16 Crawford/Molina Jr 12-10-16 Kaufmann/Austin 12-10-16 Ruiz/Parker 12-17-16 Povetkin/Stiverne

what the average fan has witnessed this year: canelo ducked GG to fight Liam Smith, GG fought a WW and should have moved up, Fury vs Klitschko was a sparring match, Joshua became paper champ without beating anybody of note, Danny Garcia still hasn't defended the vacant belt he won in January, fighters failing drug tests and delaying fights etc... It's been bad because champions aren't fighting legit contenders... and we are just waiting for Kovalev-Ward and Walters-Lomachenko. I'm not even sure what my favorite FOTY has been so far.. probably either LSC-Frampton or Thurman-Porter.. maybe I'm getting amnesia but no fights have been that memorable for me this year.

It definitely felt like boxing died to the US mainstream about half way through the mayweather-pacquaio fight. I don't think any sporting event in human history has had such a terrible hype vs boredom ratio. Will take years to recover if ever.