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    BOXING'S HEALTH - THE GLOBAL VIEW

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    Boxing Ranked Second Most Popular Sport Among Young People

    Boxing is the 2nd most popular sport in the world among young people, according to research from
    GWI. In a series that charts the growth of today’s sporting markets, boxing came second, thanks largely to a boost in interest and an engagement among young adults who are increasingly following the sport in large numbers.

    It’s no surprise that football or soccer was the number one hobby for people throughout the world. Its dominance doesn’t appear as if it will lag anytime soon.

    However, boxing has beat some of the biggest sports in the world. This included athletics, tennis, and winter sports, to the second spot will shock some people.

    Let’s take a look at why it ranks highly, particularly with young people and adults.

    The APAC Region

    APAC stands for Asia and the Pacific, and this area is one of the main reasons that boxing has skyrocketed among young people.

    Compared to the rest of the world, boxing holds a 40% internet follower rate, which is only 2% off football in APAC.

    Only North America, which is notorious for its own sports, has sports that beat football in popularity.

    Latin America helps, too. Boxing holds a 46% share in the region and comes second overall.

    Interest among young people and adults in Asia and the Pacific is reportedly down to the increase in sporting events, mainly boxing.

    For example, huge fights have been held in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. They include Anthony Joshua versus Andy Ruiz Jr II. Also, Callum Smith versus George Groves in the World Boxing Super Series super-middleweight final. The Express estimates the latter earned £6 million each by fighting in Jeddah.

    Young adults can’t relate to older fighters with different boxing styles. They want swashbuckling prizefighters who go for the kill. To put it all on the line to secure their sport status.

    And these men and women are becoming easier to find within the industry.

    World Heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua, is a prime example as he had fifteen bouts before he fought for the IBF crown and has a knockout percentage of over 90%.

    The heavyweight division is crammed with young talent representing the audience. Joe Joyce and Daniel Dubois, to name two. It’s no wonder that the fight between the pair is a huge market on Casitabi since viewers are excited to see how healthy the golden division is and who will challenge Fury and Joshua’s likes in the future.

    Boxing Big Fights

    Boxing has a reputation for big fights not being made due to promotional conflicts and politics.

    There are clear examples, including Floyd Mayweather taking on Manny Pacquaio when the latter was a few years past his prime.

    However, the likes of Eddie Hearn have made waves and seem to be getting the best bouts made regularly.

    Callum Smith versus Saul’ Canelo’ Alvarez is the latest example of two of the division’s best components of the art trading blows.

    Teofimo Lopez and Vasiliy Lomachenko have happened. At the same time, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have fought two hugely exciting contests.

    With more compelling action and the sport’s politics not getting in the way, it’s easy to see why young people engage more with boxing.
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    • #12
      BOXING'S HEALTH - THE U.S. VIEW

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      Top Rank Exec: Boxing Making Huge Comeback With Younger Audiences

      Anthony Stitt. Forbes

      Brace yourself for a shocker: Boxing’s popularity is surging in the United States. For a sport long-deemed a relic from yesteryear, boxing is attracting fans at a higher rate in the U.S. than any other sport while also capturing a younger fan base, according recent poll data.
      The esteemed Harris Poll, which surveyed more than 2,000 adults in 2021, ranks boxing as the country’s fourth most-popular sport with 33% of respondents saying they are fans of the sweet science. Ranking ahead of boxing are football (62%) and baseball and basketball (both at 49%). But perhaps the biggest Harris Poll reveal is that boxing ranks one spot ahead of MMA (30%). Back in 2010, boxing failed to place in the Harris Poll’s top 10.
      None of this surprises Brian Kelly, the Chief Revenue Officer at Top Rank, one of boxing’s biggest — and most historic — promotions. Kelly quickly points to metrics from Luker on Trends that show boxing has grown more than any sport from 2010 to 2020, attracting more than 26 million new American fans over that period of time.
      “It’s all a testament to the power of boxing,” Kelly said.

      But what’s driving the sport’s rising popularity? Gen-Z is a big part of it, Kelly says. And recent data supports that claim. According to a Front Office Sports report, boxing has recently passed baseball as the fourth most popular sport among Gen-Zers.
      Kelly said social media has been the key to drawing in younger fans. “Boxing’s format caters very well to how Gen-Z consumes content. A boxing match can be over in 5 seconds or last for 36 minutes. There can be an incredible knockout at any moment and you don’t want to miss it,” he said.
      That’s a big reason why Top Rank struck a partnership deal with Snapchat and launched its Top Rank Boxing: Uncut in late 2021. “Top Rank on Snap will deliver fans the closest imaginable look into fight week,” Kelly said.

      Kelly said that Top Rank also keeps “very active” on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, knowing that compelling content drives social-media engagement. “Social media platforms are incredible outlets for us, in terms of telling a story and experiences of Top Rank boxers,” he said.

      Also attracting new fans is Top Rank’s stable of stars — Tyson Fury, Vasiliy Lomachenko, Shakur Stevenson, Naoya Inoue and Mikaela Mayer, among many others. “Our boxers have amazing stories that have never been told before. Our outlets and channels are working more closely with our boxers to tell those stories,” Kelly said.

      But perhaps there’s one more explanation for boxing’s growing fandom: the Paul brothers, Jake and Logan, the YouTube sensations-turned-prizefighters, who are selling out arenas and hosting pay-per-views. That might be anathema to some boxing purists but not Kelly, who says the Paul brothers are “drawing in an audience, and it’s great in terms of growing the sport.”
      And growing the sport is what matters most to Kelly and Top Rank. “In recent years,” he said, “we’re seeing this shift in that casual boxing fans are becoming more passionate boxing fans... And we want the sport of boxing to continue to grow and thrive.”

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      • #13
        Boxing has grown and exhaled in cycle dating back over 5,000 years.
        Standing up to fight, is very organic for an upright creature. Hands for dexterity and toil and legs for mobility and positioning, likewise, is simply reflective of how we are hardwired. That is why boxing remains everywhere. All combat methods, sports and traditions are good. Boxing is the most universally followed and best preserved. It is not "complete" as full use of what we might do with our bodies for unarmed combat, but it is a fundamental part of MMA, Kickboxing and lethal battleground readiness. It's 'purity' for sport exhibits something wholly unique. Great sport!
        Last edited by Willow The Wisp; 10-04-2022, 08:07 PM.

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        • #14
          Originally posted by Willow The Wisp View Post
          Mark Ratner and I had a long talk about Boxing and MMA some time back. My point was that these are two versions of the same broadly defined sport (Prize fighting); and he was mystified why people think one has to decrease in stature for the other to thrive. Coke n' Pepsi, Chevy n' Ford. I have followed and written about MMA from the beginnings. In Denver in 93' for the UFCs launch. I like it. More complete fighting in terms of open rules/skills used, but not as complete as a handful of sand in the face and razor blade across the side of neck though. I like the ascetic of boxing better. Just me. What the future holds, who knows. Seems like both will do fine. Boxing on the merits of history making it more important.
          I wouldn't say more important, but as important. I imagine these celebrity matches are making the sport popular again, it being shown on Fox now with their PBC broadcasts help too. It had not been on major networks for decades. Plus the US hadn't done well in the Olympics in the sport since the 2000s, but then women's boxing was added and we got someone like Claressa Shields who won 2 gold medals.

          And I say as important because MMA goes back just as far with roots in pankration that go back to ancient Greece. It was just brought to the forefront more recently in the second half of the 20th century. First with Helio Gracie starting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and what became known as The Gracie Challenge, a tradition his sons carried on for decades as well, using ground fighting and taking on any martial artist of any style. From what I've seen, 3 things made MMA known here then in the US and then worldwide: Judo Gene Lebell taking part in one of the earliest MMA fights in the US in the mid 60s, beating a boxer by rear choke submission, The Gracie Challenge being brought to the US via Torrance, California where the Gracies both continued to challenge any fighter of any style and teach their fighting style, and Rorion Gracie starting the UFC with boxing promoter Art Davie in 1993.

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          • #15
            Originally posted by Willow The Wisp View Post
            Boxing is the number 4 most popular sport in the US - Harris Poll

            03-18-2022, 01:30 PM
            Great news for real Boxing fans. Although no longer centered in the United States, Boxing is the 4th most popular athletic spectator sport in the US, the largest revenue contributing nation! (And the three that lead it are largely provincial sports).
            https://*********.com/who-says-boxing-is-dead/129354


            By Karl Freitag

            Hardcore boxing fans tend to gnash their teeth at the recent spate of exhibitions featuring former boxing legends, MMA fighters competing in boxing matches, combination boxing/Verzuz events, and Internet “influencers” squaring off in the ring. But there is a very bright side.

            In the most recent Harris Poll, boxing now ranks as the fourth most-popular sport in the United States, behind only football, baseball, and basketball. And ahead of MMA. Ahead of ice hockey. Ahead of soccer. Ahead of tennis. Ahead of golf.

            This is rather startling considering boxing wasn’t even in the top ten previously. And perhaps even more shocking is the fact that boxing is no longer just your grandfather’s favorite sport. Young people are flocking to the sweet science, even preferring boxing to baseball!

            There is a market for celebrity boxing. Obviously, these match-ups aren’t high level, but they can be entertaining. And they’re clearly attracting a new audience to the fight game.

            For example, on Saturday there’s a free stream featuring Game of Thrones star Thor “The Mountain” Bjornsson against British strongman Eddie Hall in a six round boxing match. This spectacle is nothing more than sports entertainment, but it’s still boxing.

            And, the more people interested in watching boxing at any level, the better it is for the sport.





            I wonder if this Harris Poll result suprises anyone? Harris is one of the most famous polls there is, so their findings are meaningful. Plenty of people who were never fans of Boxing were quick to proclaim it's demise without any supporting data. We now know what BS that is.
            - - Is the Harris or any poll relevant anymore?

            No, of course not. Like political polls where leading questions are asked to guide the respondent into the result the poll wants, they also ask a very limited slice of the population, typically 1-2000 in a US population of 300+ mil.

            Who here answers their phone since landline phones were discontinued? I get 100 calls every 3 days I have to delete. The few people I know whom I may need to talk to might get a call back if I spot them on the blizzard of numbers calling me. My phone is for calling businesses mainly or surfing the internet or using as an ID for online forms.

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            • #16
              Originally posted by QueensburyRules View Post

              - - Is the Harris or any poll relevant anymore?

              No, of course not. Like political polls where leading questions are asked to guide the respondent into the result the poll wants, they also ask a very limited slice of the population, typically 1-2000 in a US population of 300+ mil.

              Who here answers their phone since landline phones were discontinued? I get 100 calls every 3 days I have to delete. The few people I know whom I may need to talk to might get a call back if I spot them on the blizzard of numbers calling me. My phone is for calling businesses mainly or surfing the internet or using as an ID for online forms.
              No doubt with landline phones obsolete and cell phones blocking calls it has become difficult to create a random pool of responders, but adjustments have been made and the polls are once again getting up to speed.

              Also polls like this don't suffer from the heated angry responses that political pollsters have to deal with; political responders now actually lie to pollsters simply because they're angry.

              Also the Harris poll questions were written in quite neutral manner (IMO).

              What I didn't care for was that MMA had 30% to boxings 33%. This is of course is within any margin of error and could easily have gone the other way. I.e. MMA has too high a popularity for me to be comfortable about it not taking away boxing fans.
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              • #17
                Originally posted by Willow The Wisp View Post
                Boxing has grown and exhaled in cycle dating back over 5,000 years.
                Standing up to fight, is very organic for an upright creature. Hands for dexterity and toil and legs for mobility and positioning, likewise, is simply reflective of how we are hardwired. That is why boxing remains everywhere. All combat methods, sports and traditions are good. Boxing is the most universally followed and best preserved. It is not "complete" as full use of what we might do with our bodies for unarmed combat, but it is a fundamental part of MMA, Kickboxing and lethal battleground readiness. It's 'purity' for sport exhibits something wholly unique. Great sport!
                I remember Larry Merchant once saying boxing wasn't dying and that it doesn't need someone to rescue it.
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                • #18
                  Originally posted by Anthony342 View Post

                  I remember Larry Merchant once saying boxing wasn't dying and that it doesn't need someone to rescue it.
                  Depends if he was sober when saying that
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                  • #19
                    We have influencers and fake boxers to thank for this.

                    But i doubt it's more popular than the ufc according to ppv buys.

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                    • #20
                      - - We have Youtubers like Logan Paul blasting l'l floydy from pillar to post whilst his brother Jake not only promotes boxing shows including his own, but managed to whoop the panties off the champion Rahman and Fury families with nary lifting a glove.

                      Paul bros currently in the top ten of all boxers in popularity.

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