hopkisn is ****ing unbelievable. he definitely won that ****ing fight. amazing! 115-111 hopkins. thats ****ing bull****. hopkins won that ****ing fight.
PPV is NOT the reason boxing has declined. It's a lack of exposure in general.
The UFC has two PPV's a month and they are THRIVING...explain that.
The reason they are doing so well is exposure and big fights getting made when they are supposed to. There are UFC fights on Sp*keTV or Versus ever other night. Whether it's lower tier guys in live fights or replays of past main events from PPV's. Boxing on regular tv? All you've got is ESPN's FNF which happens maybe once a month and it's mostly lower tier guys.
Generally speaking, they also have uniformity which means if there's a big fight to be made you can bet your ass it'll get made. It won't take two years for one of the guys to decide he doesn't want to fight, like the Mayweather/Pac debacle.
Boxing is FRACTURED.
To say PPV is the reason boxing has declined is a simplistic way of looking at it...there's a lot more to it than that.
I pretty much agree with everything you said, but the UFC's PPVs>boxing's because UFC cards are usually stacked. But just blaming PPV for boxing's decline is silly.
29-29
Round 1 I had a 10-10 draw. I thought Froch used the jab well and Kessler had some good body shots.
Round 2 I gave to Kessler. I thought he controlled the action with his jab well.
Round 3 Kessler was more aggressive but Froch seemed to connect with more clean punches.
What annoyed me about the showtime crew was they kept acting like it was a blowout. Bernstein kept talking about how 'some rounds might have been close', meaning that Paulie might've barely won some rounds..... but then at the end of the fight it turned out Bernstein scored it just 115-113 for Broner... the way they were calling the fight you'd think that all the showtime guys would've had Broner winning big. 115-113 makes sense.
watching it live i thought clottey won. watching it the next day i had clottey up 2 and i just watched it again and had clottey up 1. rafael was way off. I don't know why but i can't stand that guy. Not because of his scoring but because he comes off as being really pompous.
fight who? minus Cotto, who brings more than 2mil and a big name to the table to hype a possible rematch?
well i guess that's a good point. i didnt really think of that... i guess he would need another fight before the rematch.... i don't get why he'd duck mosley then. i think he would destroy him if they were to fight.
I wouldn't say that he's ducking mosley. i think he'd kill mosley. it's all about the money. why fight the guy that was beaten by the guy you just beat? especially since mosley is getting older and older, and he didn't look great against a shot mayorga. i give him props for not taking the mosley fihgt. it would be a relatively easy fight for him in my opinion. mosley would look good on his resume, even though it would be a 37 year old shane mosley. i'd rather see him fight someone else.