Comiing Innovations In Boxing?

[The Old LefHook]

Thank God for museums. The DNA of most of the greats has thusly been preserved on their equipment.

In coming phases of the sport DNA replicas of the greats will go at it. Fans will make Dempsey versus Marciano yet! We cannot be stopped.

But it will be realized that you cannot duplicate the lifetime of experience that made them fighters in the first place, even when you duplicate their physical attributes. There will be developed techniques for turning these buckets of meat mean, however. This new breed of boxer will have to have their own rest homes, as they would be too combative to live among normal residents.

Besides some obvious genetic blessings which are hardly exclusive to them, we will learn that great fighters are mainly a purely psychological phenomenon.

[OCPancho]

Agree and disagree at the same time. A whole round can be changed by one punch. Determining the winner of each round (while subjective) is far more complex than "that guy was more aggressive. Or what have you. Boxing isn't a home run derby. It's a sport like chess. A battle of strategy. This is why so many fights starts off looking like closer fights than they are. McGegegor Floyd for instance.

Sorry to say but that is why boxing is dying .
If everyone fought like Floyd, boxing would die .
Floyd was boring as hell.
Most of his late comer fans became boxing experts overnight . But, truth be told, Floyd milked the hip-hop crowd and made hundreds of millions doing it .
If Joe Calzaghe could have milked the hip-hop crowd, he would have made gazillions too .

UFC gained a lot audience b/c it is a more brutal sport .

Boxing has been toned down way too much. Larger gloves, larger rings, shorter title fights and quick stoppages .
Worse, infighting is not allowed anymore .

[OctoberRed]

Sorry to say but that is why boxing is dying .
If everyone fought like Floyd, boxing would die .
Floyd was boring as hell.
Most of his late comer fans became boxing experts overnight . But, truth be told, Floyd milked the hip-hop crowd and made hundreds of millions doing it .
If Joe Calzaghe could have milked the hip-hop crowd, he would have made gazillions too .

UFC gained a lot audience b/c it is a more brutal sport .

Boxing has been toned down way too much. Larger gloves, larger rings, shorter title fights and quick stoppages .
Worse, infighting is not allowed anymore .

crossover appeal is everything. the stuff he did with WWE, dancing with the stars, the hip hop magazines, made him sells millions of PPVs

[OCPancho]

crossover appeal is everything. the stuff he did with WWE, dancing with the stars, the hip hop magazines, made him sells millions of PPVs

Basically he became Kim K with boxing gloves.
First he was flashing fake bills and bling.
After the win over Oscar, he took off.

I bet 75% of his bandwagon fans did not even see the Baldomir fight .
Floyd could not even sell out in Michigan then.

Funny thing is nobody has copied him since.

Charisma and public appeal is funny thing.
Some greats like Elvis, Bruce Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Ali and even Tyson had a ton of it .

[The Old LefHook]

Of course Mayweather was incredibly boring. I thought that was old news. The man fought from a permanent cherry picker. He loved to wait for opponents' magic to disappear and then fight them like a brave man. To make matters worse he had the brain of a street scum and the communication talent of a wood rat. That millions of young dummies thought he was verbally entertaining is more scary than Russian nukes in Moslem hands.

[OctoberRed]

Basically he became Kim K with boxing gloves.
First he was flashing fake bills and bling.
After the win over Oscar, he took off.

I bet 75% of his bandwagon fans did not even see the Baldomir fight .
Floyd could not even sell out in Michigan then.

Funny thing is nobody has copied him since.

Charisma and public appeal is funny thing.
Some greats like Elvis, Bruce Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Ali and even Tyson had a ton of it .

Now it seems his whole promotional stable is turning on him.

[OCPancho]

Now it seems his whole promotional stable is turning on him.

Yeah, lots of boxers are getting out of his gym and promo outfit.
And they're just nobodies either.

[OctoberRed]

Yeah, lots of boxers are getting out of his gym and promo outfit.
And they're just nobodies either.

Even his longtime guys like Ishe and Theophane are skipping town.

[The Old LefHook]

You boys want a highly contested, fair fight? Winner takes all might produce just that.

Boxers are always popping off about a winner-take-all match. But really, has there ever even been one? When was the last time?

90% for the winner, 10 % for the loser. That arrangement might have the desired effect also.

Would it work? Hmm, it might increase steroid use though. Would it? Could anything?

[The Old LefHook]

You boys want a highly contested, fair fight? Winner takes all might produce just that.

Boxers are always popping off about a winner-take-all match. But really, has there ever even been one? When was the last time?

90% for the winner, 10 % for the loser. That arrangement might have the desired effect also.

Would it work? Hmm, it might increase steroid use though. Would it? Could anything?

Sure. Make 'em legal. That will increase steroid use.