'Boxing is dying...'

[guru]

boxing will never die, but it's losing its audience...

[James78]

Am I the only one that is ****ing sick of hearing this? It seems to be the popular 'philosophical' statement nowadays. Boxing will never die, it never did and it never could.
As long as men stand as men, throwing punches alone, there will be the people that understand that this fighting in its purest form. There will be fluctuations, there always have been. But it is only in anticipation of the latest fighter to throw the sport into the next era.
Boxing is not dying. Boxing will never die. As long as there are men, boxing will prevail as the number one combat sport. Period.

bravo, bravo

[SquareCircle]

HIP HOP IS DEAD. the kind of music you hear these days is commercial ****. hip hop is dead. boxing AINT. boxing just needs guys like leonard and duran these days, but they will come trust me. not better than leonard or duran but close.

miranda. miranda. miranda.

[SquareCircle]

I'll never watch mma, because I can learn nothing from it that would benefit me inside the boxing ring.

[flexnbig]

I'm also sick of this "boxing is dead" talk. I don't know why the media feels the need to push that. Boxing as far as I'm concerned has never really been a mainstream sport like basketball, football, etc. It's always been kind of on the outside until a big fight as we witnessed last week happens.

The problem is there are "big" fights all the time that aren't even covered by the major media outlets. The casual fans I don't think even understand what a great fight is. We here on the forum see Pac v.s. Morales 1 & 2 as great fights, while the casual fan sees Tyson/Lewis as a "great fight" simply because of the knockout.

[Naiujiro]

1) Boxing is not dying, it has cycles, (not like a woman) that it goes through like any other sport.
2) Equating the rise in MMA to boxings downfall is just plain dumb. If you're to say MMA is responsible for any sport's direct decline, it'd be pro wrestling.
3) THERE CAN BE more then 1 combat sport you know.
4) Boxing may not retain the position as the #1 combat sport, but I highly doubt it'll fall below #2 in the next 20 years.

and

5) The only real trouble that boxing has ever faced is its own dishonesty, and the cans that it customarily feeds it's big name boxers for X amount of years.

Other then that, it's going to still be here for a long while. This subject has been done to death. Thread Done.

[Truth]

2.5 mill paid nearly 60 bucks to watch boxing last Saturday...that sounds alive to me.--to the haters of boxing.

[Naiujiro]

I'll never watch mma, because I can learn nothing from it that would benefit me inside the boxing ring.

Are you training to be a pro boxer?

or are you just hoping every fight you get in, will be conveniently in a ring, and your opponent would have never viewed MMA before or practiced how to tackle? Just a question though.

[QueenCity]

Even though Mayweather/ De La Hoya had all those PPV buys I think it really hurt the sport more than it helped it. Promoting it as the biggest fight in boxing history was BS and it gave it a standard it couldn't possible live up to. But in the long I'm pretty sure boxing will never die and I think MMA coming into the mainstream will be a really good think for boxing. More kids will be into the fighting sports instead of going to football or basketball and they will see that boxing takes just as much skill if not more than ultimate fighting does. IMO hand to hand combat is easily the best and it will begin to show once boxing gets more substance and hopeful a little less corruption.

[winkyisnasty13]

Boxing's popularity is down, but as a sport it will never die.