Boxing is so dead

Lots of fighters sitting on the shelf without any reason to. Ennis vs Stanionis is still not registering on the radar screen... Nobody knows what's next for Tank Davis... Crawford vs Spence is in limbo... Lots of fighters are taking one year layoffs without injuries. Jermall, Benavidez, Morrell, Derevyanchenko, etc.

Spence/Crawford wouldve already happened

The fights that are supposed to be reasonably made are still not happening.

Young fighters in their prime sit on the shelves for no reason.

Boxing is alive and well when you got Tyson Fury entertaining us. ATG and GOAT and unbeaten.

Now on to opinions, MMA is simply more exciting, more unpredictable and it has wayy more ways a fight can go or finish in exciting fashion. The storylines are better, it's more gripping. Look at last weekend. You had a near unbeatable champ about to even the record for winning streak in the UFC. He's winning the fight untill a HL reel headkick ends the fight out of nowhere. It's full of emotion and shock. It's all over social media, it's alive. I feel like the absolute cream of the crop boxing matches are for the most part better than the best MMA fights. Like off the top of my head stuff like the Ward/Gatti, Bowe/Holyfield and Barrera/Morales trilogies, Hagler/Hearns etc etc surpasses stuff like Shogun/Hendo 1, Gaethje/Chandler, Frye/Takayama, the Wand/Rampage fights etc etc. But where MMA wins is CONSISTENCY. Theres a big difference between hand picking the best fights from multiple decades worth of material to fill an afternoon watching vs watching current cards start to finish as they happen. MMA just seems to deliver some form of craziness or talking point more regularly, whether its a wild fight or a highlight reel KO or a mad comeback/upset, you often get multiple of these things on a single card. And thats another thing, MMA is more built around whole cards rather than just one fight, you can mention a specific card from 10+ years ago to an MMA fan and they'll be like "oh yeah thats the one where X, Y, Z happened". Granted things have changed a bit once they started pumping out shit tons of free tv cards as well but even now they still multiple times a year have bigger cards where theres a genuine buzz and enthusiasm for the whole night of fights. Its akin to something like Wrestlemania or whatever where it feels like a big spectacle start to finish.

I wanna have some hot UFC chicks in a vat of green jello submit me after I blow some magnum loads of jizz on them bukkake Not nearly as poetic as your usual posts. May I join the bukakke party?

Boxing definitely needs a new superstar hopefully Ennis is what everyone thinks he is ..a generational talent It also misses some characters outside the ring and villians like Mayorga, Broner, Mike Tyson etc people you had to watch even to laugh at or think wtf

The ratings for boxing suck now. Too many channels and just no superstars the common man can support. AJ and Canelo are on the tail end of there career and no one can replace them

Well I didnt agree at all with the initial claim that boxing is dead anyway, of course its not. As for the question...who the **** knows. To me it comes across like this (in terms of size) UFC> several boxing promotions (PBC, Top Rank, Matchroom etc) > a bunch of MMA promotions (Bellator, One, PFL, Rizin etc) > tons of really small scale stuff for both, with boxing having more overall events. I was able to come across boxing numbers. But numbers are not important to support such a claim. I mean, MMA guys are purists and don't need the money, so it's irrelevant, right ?

You ''win'' :lol1: !!!!!! Why would you think someone who competes in a sport that has punching automatically couldnt possibly be able to crack unless theyre officially a boxer? do they not train their hands regularly? dont they have boxing coaches and in many cases spar with boxers? I posted how much money Dead Assed boxing generated so far this year What are the MMA/UFC numbers ??? Well I didnt agree at all with the initial claim that boxing is dead anyway, of course its not. As for the question...who the fuck knows. To me it comes across like this (in terms of size) UFC> several boxing promotions (PBC, Top Rank, Matchroom etc) > a bunch of MMA promotions (Bellator, One, PFL, Rizin etc) > tons of really small scale stuff for both, with boxing having more overall events.

I posted how much money Dead Assed boxing generated so far this year What are the MMA/UFC numbers ???

They know a lot more about punching than boxers know about..... You ''win'' :lol1: !!!!!!

I should have typed ''proper'' punching. MMA/UFC guys DKSAPP :boxing: They know a lot more about punching than boxers know about any of the other stuff MMA fighters do. Lol @ thinking a sport where the fighters train boxing pretty much daily isnt going to have plenty of fighters that can punch respectably, you telling me Hendo cant crack? Ngannou? Rumble? Lewis? Manhoef? Alex Pereira? Romero? Hunt? etc etc. And regardless, again, its 4oz gloves and no counts, ANYBODY can get slept in that environment. The Transformers threw a bunch of SFX and eye candy at the audience. Made Zillions of $$$$$ Do I need to go on ? Do I need to be a ''grumpy old man'' to state the obvious ? Boxing is not an arthouse movie or a Michelin starred restaurant, its people punching each other in the face, these retarded analogies are basically just ways of deflecting from MMA being more exciting.

Why are you still bragging about something ****ed up like this though? Anyway, its not so much that "punching kills", obviously MMA has punching as well, and with smaller gloves too, plus more powerful strikes like kicks and knees. The real reason is that boxing rules lead to taking repeated brain trauma for a longer time without the fight ending. The bigger gloves, counts after knockdowns, longer total fight time but shorter rounds etc etc. Its the volume and sustained nature of the brain being shaken around that does the serious damage in boxing. I can never tell how serious you're being with this stuff. But yeah, a lot of boxing fans are like this. Its like some grumpy old man sitting in a rocking chair gesturing his fists in that ole timey boxing stance and going "in my day it was proper fisticuffs, 70 rounds and the ring was just wooden floorboards". Basically just being stuck in their ways. I should have typed ''proper'' punching. MMA/UFC guys DKSAPP :boxing: The Transformers threw a bunch of SFX and eye candy at the audience. Made Zillions of $$$$$ Do I need to go on ? Do I need to be a ''grumpy old man'' to state the obvious ?

As we know, PUNCHING kills :boxing: Why are you still bragging about something fucked up like this though? Anyway, its not so much that "punching kills", obviously MMA has punching as well, and with smaller gloves too, plus more powerful strikes like kicks and knees. The real reason is that boxing rules lead to taking repeated brain trauma for a longer time without the fight ending. The bigger gloves, counts after knockdowns, longer total fight time but shorter rounds etc etc. Its the volume and sustained nature of the brain being shaken around that does the serious damage in boxing. It's almost like watching girls fight I can never tell how serious you're being with this stuff. But yeah, a lot of boxing fans are like this. Its like some grumpy old man sitting in a rocking chair gesturing his fists in that ole timey boxing stance and going "in my day it was proper fisticuffs, 70 rounds and the ring was just wooden floorboards". Basically just being stuck in their ways.

Boxing and MMA are pretty much in the same position now. UFC isn't really putting on great cards on a regular basis anymore. It's usually one, maybe two good fights per card and the rest filler - the same thing they used to criticize boxing for. They both have a big night every now and then. They're coexisting peacefully, neither hurting the other. Hell, ESPN airs them back to back most weekends so if anything they help each other.

This is the wrong year to make this thread. We have had undisputed championship fights at 135, 140, 154, & 168 in the past few years Fights at 147 and HW are basically done at this point. We just had the biggest women's fight in history with the 2nd biggest one happening in a few weeks. We've got Canelo/GGG III coming up. Like boxing's the best it's been in like a decade this year

I mean...you're criticizing MMA guys fighting abilities when they'd beat the **** out of boxers close to their size. So when you look at it like that, what does being a good boxer say? does anyone really view it as proof of who the best fighter in the world is anymore? As opposed to boxing where as soon as the ref smells danger he literally pauses the fight to allow the guy that got hurt to recover. It's almost like watching girls fight. MMA allows scratching, yes ? As we know, PUNCHING kills :boxing:

Boxing is more like a waiting game right now. Thurman is waiting. Ennis is waiting. Jermall is waiting. Benavidez is waiting. Plant is waiting. Who else?