Nothing to be excited about. What fights are you really, really looking forward to? Any? Look at this board. It's semi-dead.
Good and potential great fighters aren't fighting each other because of promotional, network, and BS belts from corrupt alphabet belt orgs.
Boxing is my favorite and only sport I watch. What's happening to our sport, guys?
What can we do?
some fighters (the best ones) are overpaid.
The match making is awful as has been said. If one guy is getting a million and other guy is getting a handjob and bag of peanuts then it’s going to be a crap fight isn’t it.
I wish I knew the purses of all televised fights and I’d just pick the fights that were as close to a 50/50 split.
The fans don’t really demand good fights either. In this instafamous culture.
Every division should have a WBSS. With that boxing would be great, but we can only fantasize can we?
Heavyweight WBSS winners fight:
Joshua vs Pulev
Wilder vs Povetkin
Fury vs Parker
Whyte vs Ortiz
Light Heavyweight WBSS winners fight:
Kovalev vs Gilberto Ramirez
Beterbiev vs Eleider Alvarez
Bivol vs Jesse Hart
Gvozdyk vs Browne
Middleweight:
Canelo vs Jermall Charlo
Andrade vs Derevyanchenko
Golovkin vs Rob Brant
Jacobs vs Saunders
Light Middleweight:
Hurd vs Lubin
Munguia vs Brook
Lara vs Castano 2
Harrison vs Jermell Charlo 2
Welterweight:
Spence vs Ugas
Thurman vs Pacquiao
Porter vs Lipinets
Crawford vs Danny Garcia
Lightweight:
Lomachenko vs Campbell
Commey vs Teofimo Lopez
Easter vs Devin Haney
Pedraza vs Linares
Super Featherweight:
Berchelt vs Machado-Cancio 2 winner
Ito vs Quigg
Farmer vs Joseph Diaz Jr
Davis vs Fortuna
Featherweight:
Russel Jr vs Mares
Santa Cruz vs Nyambayar
Warrington vs Kid Galahad
Valdez vs Magdaleno
Super Bantamweight:
Rigondeaux vs TJ Doheny
Roman vs Iwasa
Navarrete vs Dogboe 2
Rey Vargas vs Diego De La Hoya
Super Flyweight:
Estrada vs Ioka
Ancajas vs Nietes
Yafai vs Roman Gonzalez
Rungvisai vs Cuadras 2
- -Modern American fighters getting credit running around like chickens squawking about being best.
Corrupt suits and the dumbest fan base in sports, the reason for boxing continuing to lose market share. Nobody wants to be that dumb.
I want all potential greats to fight each other, even if they are still young. They are better than the ranked pedestrian belt contenders. So called good fighters are feasting on cans.
Too bad it ain’t happening. Even spence is going to the direction of “i don’t need him” instead of pushing for the fight with crawford.
They continually rob us with great fights. And make it happen when they’re old and sell it like they’re still young lol
And casuals will gobble it up.
Wash rinse repeat
We have 3 decent exciting fights coming up tomorrow.
Surely out of the 3 we will get one candidate.
Maybe you should change your name to boxing is boring if that's how you feel.
When UFC was a threat in 2016 having PPVs do +1 million buys while boxing couldnt even crack a million is when it forced the sport to be great again in 2017, 2018 with the Nelo-G fights
UFC is now on a app for ffs & isnt going to threaten boxing just like WWE whose ratings keep declining due to lack of stars.
What can we do? I watch NBA, Premier League, La Liga, LIGA MX, NFL, I dont mind Hockey so maybe you should watch other sports
If it's anything I see Top Rank/ESPN Boxing tanking too since their roster sucks imo & they are running out of laundromat workers for Lomo, Terence Crawford, etcim just happy they kept finding laundromat workers for Jermall Charlo. 4 fights at middleweight. 4 laundromat workers.
With the exception of Lara castaño showtime has had all bad cards.
Boxing is simply in a bit of a slump right now for a few factors:
Mainly the aforementioned promoter/tv network/app cold wars going on right now which is hindering fights from being made and thus new stars to be made as well..
Mayweather/Pacquiao really left a huge void as well as far as star power, and new stars are failing to fill the void because of what I said above.
On top of that boxing faces steep competition from other sports right now that are rising in popularity, once again, because of the lack of stars there is no interest being generated.
But I'm confident boxing will survive this and be popping once again, eventually. We just have to hope DAZN takes shape or somebody can somehow unite all of the fighters under one large promotional banner like a UFC or WWE type thing but for boxing. I know that's a pretty far fetched pipedream but that's my dream :dunno:
Edit: And for the love of God WE NEED A BOXING GAME! Back in the fight night days I had friends who weren't even boxing fans go out and get those games every year cuz they were fun and a lot of them eventually either became a boxing fan or a casual or occasionally watched, influenced from the games. Video games can be a huge marketing tool for any sports brand.
Exactly. No personalities. Imagine someone like Canelo, GGG, or Spence being a badass big mouth?
Spence looked half asleep and bored in all the interviews I saw before the Mikey fight.
I'd find boxing more entertaining if they had fan forced fights.
I would make Danny Garcia fight Deontay Wilder because I don't like Garcia
I would make Mikey Garcia fight GGG as I don't like Mikey.
I would make J'Leon Love fight Beterbiev 5 nights in a row just because...
I would make Tank Davis fight Broner at 147 just because I think he beats broner
I would seriously watch those fights. Call me different.
If you don't get how watching combat between two trained athletes is exciting then you need to crawl back into your hole.
Of course, you're lying because you wouldn't be here if you didn't find it exciting so GTFO with the trolling.
The point was it isn't that exciting right now for various reasons. Not that I don't find boxing exciting.
Exciting? Examples?
If you don't get how watching combat between two trained athletes is exciting then you need to crawl back into your hole.
Of course, you're lying because you wouldn't be here if you didn't find it exciting so GTFO with the trolling.
Please leave boxing you PBC chump.
Every WW is ducking the #1 fighter in the world, Terrence Crawford, including your queer posse Spencer, MMAShawn, Next Time Keith, etc.
Deyonce is ducking Anthony Joshua, the best Heavyweight in the World
Thankfully MW is NOT PBC and we're seeing the best fight the best. At least we have that!
What IS Exciting:
Ca$hnelo thinking of taking over SMW and LHW. Very exciting stuff !
Loma and TC are staying busy with whatever willing opposition they can find. And they're getting the job done!
Beanie Baby Davis and Wannabe Shakur might go to jail so at least we can be spared their acts!
Wilder might get KTFO so that's something!
Spencer gonna be the GOAT of LW...AT WELTERWEIGHT!
In all seriousness boxing is in a lull right now. There are no mega fights. The Canelo-GGG fights lost a LOT of luster after Canelo whooped GGG and sent him into a mini retirement. Now GGG comes back...to fight tomato cans. Again. Nobody cares. . .
Canelo has only Andrade left and Andrade hasn't fought anyone remotely as good as Canelo. Hard to see Andrade win a decision.
Crawford won't get any major names at WW because they're afraid.
Loma won't get Mikey or Tank because they're afraid.
Loma Might get Teofimo, but I'd rather he built his profile more tbh
PBC is simply bad for boxing. No other way around it
Please post respectfully. Screw your theories and racism. I'm not interested in politics or petty stuff. I don't care about Wilder or PBC.
Canelo is the best fighter in the world right now, after Estrada!
When UFC was a threat in 2016 having PPVs do +1 million buys while boxing couldnt even crack a million is when it forced the sport to be great again in 2017, 2018 with the Nelo-G fights
UFC is now on a app for ffs & isnt going to threaten boxing just like WWE whose ratings keep declining due to lack of stars.
What can we do? I watch NBA, Premier League, La Liga, LIGA MX, NFL, I dont mind Hockey so maybe you should watch other sports
If it's anything I see Top Rank/ESPN Boxing tanking too since their roster sucks imo & they are running out of laundromat workers for Lomo, Terence Crawford, etc
Loma will get Davis and Crawford with Spence. Hope it's not too late. Nice journeymen could ruin all plans tho.
I think boxing is in a lul but I don't get why people think their issues have any relevance to other people. Why they try to infect everyone. You're bored. Fine. This probably isn't the best place to bytch about it.
Nothing to be excited about. What fights are you really, really looking forward to? Any? Look at this board. It's semi-dead.
Good and potential great fighters aren't fighting each other because of promotional, network, and BS belts from corrupt alphabet belt orgs.
Boxing is my favorite and only sport I watch. What's happening to our sport, guys?
What can we do?
When UFC was a threat in 2016 having PPVs do +1 million buys while boxing couldnt even crack a million is when it forced the sport to be great again in 2017, 2018 with the Nelo-G fights
UFC is now on a app for ffs & isnt going to threaten boxing just like WWE whose ratings keep declining due to lack of stars.
What can we do? I watch NBA, Premier League, La Liga, LIGA MX, NFL, I dont mind Hockey so maybe you should watch other sports
If it's anything I see Top Rank/ESPN Boxing tanking too since their roster sucks imo & they are running out of laundromat workers for Lomo, Terence Crawford, etc