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By Jake Donovan - The world awaited, the world watched, now we find out if the world will return.
That was the question – or should I say suggestion – offered for this past weekend's mega-event between Floyd Mayweather and Oscar de la Hoya. The truth is that this was never going to be the fight to "save" boxing, just the one to get the mainstream press to once again talk about the sport for a change.
So, to those who believed otherwise: Made ya look!
In order to save the sport, you need to do more than offer a stand-alone event (especially one with a thin undercard as was offered this weekend). Otherwise, you're offering the perception that this was boxing's last call.
From a mainstream standpoint, perhaps it was. When presented with the question, what major events are on the horizon after this one, very few were able to come up with an answer.
For boxing itself, it's back to business as usual. Despite the perception that boxing will now pack up its belongings and fly a "Going out of Business" banner, fights will still take place on basic and premium cable networks every weekend.
No, there's nothing in the immediate future as big as the mega event that was this past weekend's fight. But then, not every NFL game is the Super Bowl. Baseball championships are won in October, but all of the records that are made to be broken still run from April through the end of September. [details]
That was the question – or should I say suggestion – offered for this past weekend's mega-event between Floyd Mayweather and Oscar de la Hoya. The truth is that this was never going to be the fight to "save" boxing, just the one to get the mainstream press to once again talk about the sport for a change.
So, to those who believed otherwise: Made ya look!
In order to save the sport, you need to do more than offer a stand-alone event (especially one with a thin undercard as was offered this weekend). Otherwise, you're offering the perception that this was boxing's last call.
From a mainstream standpoint, perhaps it was. When presented with the question, what major events are on the horizon after this one, very few were able to come up with an answer.
For boxing itself, it's back to business as usual. Despite the perception that boxing will now pack up its belongings and fly a "Going out of Business" banner, fights will still take place on basic and premium cable networks every weekend.
No, there's nothing in the immediate future as big as the mega event that was this past weekend's fight. But then, not every NFL game is the Super Bowl. Baseball championships are won in October, but all of the records that are made to be broken still run from April through the end of September. [details]
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