2017 - the year to save boxing.

Tyson's very talented. I don't see anywhere near the same caliber of skill with Hughie. I don't even consider Fury a serious prospect yet due to his poorer opposition (you gotta beat a top 40ish guy on boxrec for me to consider you a serious prospect or fringe contender). I had nice money on Parker in that fight strictly cuz I thought that betting line was off. Believe Parker was -185 or something like that, which is a solid enough favorite, but against Hughie it seemed like it shoulda been wider. Don't know if the UK bettors influenced that like I've seen happen in the past or if people were just down on Parker for that close Ruiz fight or a bit of a mix between both those situations. Rudenko and kassi are not in the top 40? :thinking: Btw im a big parker fan and expected him to win via KO but a ton of people i know were picking Fury..it was a great fight, hopefully it get's remade.

Stfu with all that " saving boxing " bullsht already. Boxing will never be main stream in america but it wont die out either.

Why were you super disappointed with that fight not happening? You in Australia or a big UK or Team Fury supporter? This kinda seemed like a name value whatever fight to me. Kinda a low budget Canelo vs JCC Jr lol if yu will. I don't think so, i always schit on all the fury's but Hughie is very talented, technically, the bookies had that fight close to a pick em fight, not sure how its comparable to a freakshow like Chavez V Canelo? It's one of the best fights to make in the divsion after AJ v Wilder etc...

i was super disappointed fluffy fury pulled out of the parker fight, but Klitschko v AJ FOTY this weekend made up for it! a FOTY contender last weekend in Valdez V Marriaga. then we have the biggest WW fight in years Brook V Spence in a huge stadium fight. Ward V Kovlaev 2 The potential Return of the crazy gypsy Tyson Fury AJ V Wilder at the end of the year (long shot but could happen) this year could be the best year of boxing in many many YEARS :boxing: You are right. The year has started out with a bang and we aren't even halfway through it. Can't wait for Brook vs Spence at the end of May. Who do you see winning that one?

i was super disappointed fluffy fury pulled out of the parker fight, but Klitschko v AJ FOTY this weekend made up for it! a FOTY contender last weekend in Valdez V Marriaga. then we have the biggest WW fight in years Brook V Spence in a huge stadium fight. Ward V Kovlaev 2 The potential Return of the crazy gypsy Tyson Fury AJ V Wilder at the end of the year (long shot but could happen) this year could be the best year of boxing in many many YEARS :boxing:

i just hate stupid people like you and the pac-tards who know nothing about boxing. you guys are a bunch of whiny *****y fa990t ass fans. your guys only argument is "its a duck its a duck its a clear duck" I don't want to have to associate kenny powers with a angry weird nerd on a boxing forum, so welcome to my ignore list!

boxing isnt going anywhere. been around for over 100 years. either way, you fans will never be happy. you all claim when a fight isnt made, that one is ducking the other and when the fight is made, you guys get pissed about the scoring. fighters arent ruining the sport, the fans *****ing and moaning are. for example everyone said ward was ducking kovalev, and mayweather was ducking pacquiao then they fight and the fans ***** that the fight was boring, scoring was off etc etc. YOU NEW CLASS FANS WILL NEVER BE HAPPY. fighters dont care if you think they are ducking. if waiting 2 years making them 5 million more, they will wait. they dont care. they dont fight to please you guys. they fight for money. you stupid fans will never be happy. if canelo and GGG fight and its a war where each throws over 1000 punches and GGG and canelo is go down 3 times each and their faces are torn apart and the fight is even after 12 rounds. you fa990t fans will start *****ing that the scoring was off and then you will start with your own compbux garbage like the pac-tards claiming your fighter one and if a rematch doesnt happen then one is ducking the other and then you will claim that boxing is dying and blah blah blah. SHUT THE **** UP ALL YOU IGNORANT DIP **** FANS. FYI i never read your posts, you come across as a super weird angry nerdling. HTH *insert did not read gif here*

Boxing doesn't need saving. It will always be around.

arthur mercante could have used a standing 8 count last night. and a towel. :lol1::lol1:

Doubt it... Watch the canelo-Chavez fight get cancelled at last second when Chavez can't make weight, and canelo refuses to fight above contracted weight.. I don't think the year revolves around whether the Canelo - chavez fight gets made or not lol. It's a fun sideshow nothing more nothing less.

Doubt it... Watch the canelo-Chavez fight get cancelled at last second when Chavez can't make weight, and canelo refuses to fight above contracted weight..

Could be. That showtime card was one of the best in recent memory.

Someone earlier mentioned this, the problem with boxing losing popularity isn't in the match making or the "lack of stars." It's in fan's accessibility to it and it's ability to garner new followers. While I loath comparisons to MMA - they have a much more fan friendly introduction. Rather than having dozens of promotions, there is one (UFC). Rather than each promotions only promoting their upcoming events or a channel only advertising their network's schedule - the UFC uses every event to hype the next one, be it on Fox, or FS1, or PPV, or where ever. Boxing has 4 alphabet champions, plus The Ring, plus lineal...UFC has one. Easier for the uninitiated to understand the power structure - for goodness sake, boxing has right now 77 different men holding an alphabet title, and yet only like 5 to 10 of them could headline an event on their name recognition alone. I think a lot of us have been around the sport for so long, and we have an appreciation for the nuanced style of it's promotion - for people who are casual fans or new to the sport, it can be a little daunting. Plus it doesn't help when we have an absolutely amazing fight like the one last night - and because it didn't end the way the promoter (Floyd) wanted he says it was a bad night for boxing in the middle of the broadcast. Can you imagine Dana White saying after one of his fights how it was a bad night for the sport? Arum isn't much better. Yes, good entertaining fights will help bring back a couple of disenfranchised fans, but until there is a structural shift if the manner in which boxing is promoted, it's going to remain a fringe sport with only a very select few who bring in enough money to keep the entire industry financially worthwhile.

Was an amazing card and there are some good fights scheduled, so maybe. Can we stop though and take a second to ask what the refs were doing in the ring after the knockdowns? Looked like they were administering a sobriety test. I half expected them to ask the fighters to recite the alphabet or some schit. arthur mercante could have used a standing 8 count last night. and a towel.

Doubt it but I hope it does.

Its not as simple as that. Boxing has far too many moving parts & too many people with skin in the game for the best to fight the best on any consistent basis. Boxing needs an entire collapse &/or restructuring of the sport to be able to compete with the other sports & other entertainment that we all have competing for our time & dollar these day. Boxing will always have the Friday caliber fights & the Saturday caliber cards you bring up, but it needs to have a change at a deeper level than any two fighters, promoters or networks deciding to work together for one fight for Saturday caliber cards to become cards that happen as often as they should be. can you kindly stop with the logic and facts and join me in my blind optimism FFS?

Boxing needs a solid system that keeps fighters active, make the best fight the best, and make use of solid platforms to make the fights available to its target market. Basically, boxing just needs to be boxing, and be available to its fan. 2017 looks promising, but the real way to keep the sport mainstream is by letting it play out how it's supposed to.

Save boxing lol. Boxing can certainly do better than its been doing, but its more about the structure of the sport being altered to a more fan friendly model in acquiring new viewers not just in the fights being made & lol again at saving boxing like a entire sport is going anywhere. come on dude, we all know the sport has been going down the ****ter in the past few years with big fights not being made, fighters being content for big paydays against safe mismatched opponents. Last night was a huge dose of optimism. Especially considering that godawful pile of doo doo on friday night that no one watched. Friday night represents where boxing has been going. Saturday night represents (hopefully) where boxing is and SHOULD be going.

Was an amazing card and there are some good fights scheduled, so maybe. Can we stop though and take a second to ask what the refs were doing in the ring after the knockdowns? Looked like they were administering a sobriety test. I half expected them to ask the fighters to recite the alphabet or some schit. Yeah, that thing is strange and takes away from a fighter's momentum. That ringside doctor was doing it too. Not cool. They should get rid of it.

Was an amazing card and there are some good fights scheduled, so maybe. Can we stop though and take a second to ask what the refs were doing in the ring after the knockdowns? Looked like they were administering a sobriety test. I half expected them to ask the fighters to recite the alphabet or some schit.