top ten reasons boxing is dying

[Mr. Violence]

I'm not writing this to start an E-fight. This is just an observation.:



10. Lack of marquee names. Whatever happened to the days when Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran were household names? You ask the average person on the street to name one fighter these days other than Oscar De Lahoya they cant.

9. Lack of talent. Let's face it the new fighters are not as skilled as the fighters of old.

8. Boring fights. I'm getting tired of watching these John Ruiz style fights of hug and hold or these other fights where they jab their way to a victory. You'll never see another Hearns vs. Hagler out of todays heartless crock.

7. Charging too high for fights. You pay $55 for a PPV and the fight sucks.


6. Boxing is no longer on free TV. When I was young I remember seeing championship fights on ABC Wide World Of Sports. Not these days you have to pay $55 for some piece of boring **** of a fight.

5. The death of the heavyweight division. This is the Superstar division. it currently lacks talent. All the athletes who could have been heavyweight contenders are in the NFL instead. Can't say that I blame them. If I was 6'5 250 lbs I'd rather play in the NFL than get exploited and used up by some greedy boxing promoter.

4. Protected fighters. Fighters these days dodge each other in order to hang on to their titles longer. Mayweather should be fighting Hatton, but it will never happen because they are both protected to keep their records in tact. Gone are the days of Ali vs. Foreman...in other words top fighter vs. top fighter.

3. Bad decisions. This is sickening to me and the reason I watch boxing less. Whenever I think of Chavez vs. Whitaker I want to puke. I'm sure you know of many ther robberies in the ring.

2. Greed. Instead of wanting to fight each other to prove they are the best, they only want to fight based on the pay day they will recieve. This is the reason why many potentially great match ups never happened.

1. Fight fans have other options. Since boxing is no longer free and you have to pay an arm and a leg to see a Championship fight and it turns out to be a dud, many fight fights are now watching other fighting sports. UFC is free on Spike TV and the numbers show that the UFC PPv is starting to beat the boxing PPV. UFC shows free fights, boxing does not. More exposure for UFC means more numbers when its PPV time.

[GunStar]

Boxing will never die, it's the oldest sport and it's the greatest sport of all time, nothing comes close to boxing.

[Mr. Violence]

Boxing will never die, it's the oldest sport and it's the greatest sport of all time, nothing comes close to boxing.

the numbers don't lie my friend.

[Steak]

ha!

you must not watch many fights. there a tons of exciting fights.
De La Hoya vs. Mayweather didnt suck. I dont know what you were watching.
How are fighters protected when unfication fights are happenening constantly?
Mayweather should be fighting Hatton...haha. De La Hoya is a WAY better opponent than 140lb Hatton. Hatton is fighting Castillo, which is the top 2 in the division. sounds good to me...
Ill give you the decisions. They are really bad sometimes.

If you didnt know, Boxing is on ESPN Classic, ESPN 2, local sports channels, MSG, Versus, Fox sports, plenty more of free channels, if you dont want to count HBO or Showtime. Its not on channels like ABC, but neither is mma, dumbass.
________
Mflb vaporizer

[Sin City]

We have had some really great fights in this era that people take for granted because they are in the lower weight classes...

[GreatestIam]

I'm not writing this to start an E-fight. This is just an observation.:



10. Lack of marquee names. Whatever happened to the days when Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran were household names? You ask the average person on the street to name one fighter these days other than Oscar De Lahoya they cant.

9. Lack of talent. Let's face it the new fighters are not as skilled as the fighters of old.

8. Boring fights. I'm getting tired of watching these John Ruiz style fights of hug and hold or these other fights where they jab their way to a victory. You'll never see another Hearns vs. Hagler out of todays heartless crock.

7. Charging too high for fights. You pay $55 for a PPV and the fight sucks.


6. Boxing is no longer on free TV. When I was young I remember seeing championship fights on ABC Wide World Of Sports. Not these days you have to pay $55 for some piece of boring **** of a fight.

5. The death of the heavyweight division. This is the Superstar division. it currently lacks talent. All the athletes who could have been heavyweight contenders are in the NFL instead. Can't say that I blame them. If I was 6'5 250 lbs I'd rather play in the NFL than get exploited and used up by some greedy boxing promoter.

4. Protected fighters. Fighters these days dodge each other in order to hang on to their titles longer. Mayweather should be fighting Hatton, but it will never happen because they are both protected to keep their records in tact. Gone are the days of Ali vs. Foreman...in other words top fighter vs. top fighter.

3. Bad decisions. This is sickening to me and the reason I watch boxing less. Whenever I think of Chavez vs. Whitaker I want to puke. I'm sure you know of many ther robberies in the ring.

2. Greed. Instead of wanting to fight each other to prove they are the best, they only want to fight based on the pay day they will recieve. This is the reason why many potentially great match ups never happened.

1. Fight fans have other options. Since boxing is no longer free and you have to pay an arm and a leg to see a Championship fight and it turns out to be a dud, many fight fights are now watching other fighting sports. UFC is free on Spike TV and the numbers show that the UFC PPv is starting to beat the boxing PPV. UFC shows free fights, boxing does not. More exposure for UFC means more numbers when its PPV time.

You know boxing inst dying its just indecline im not sure why people cant see dat.... **** people thought da world was comin to an end in the day of the depression and look at us now, the fact is things arent always as good as da once where and dats life, if you wanna see something dats dying visit your local hospital! When i turn PRO boxing will be back i promise dat ****

[Underboss]

I'm not writing this to start an E-fight. This is just an observation.:



10. Lack of marquee names. Whatever happened to the days when Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran were household names? You ask the average person on the street to name one fighter these days other than Oscar De Lahoya they cant.

9. Lack of talent. Let's face it the new fighters are not as skilled as the fighters of old.

8. Boring fights. I'm getting tired of watching these John Ruiz style fights of hug and hold or these other fights where they jab their way to a victory. You'll never see another Hearns vs. Hagler out of todays heartless crock.

7. Charging too high for fights. You pay $55 for a PPV and the fight sucks.


6. Boxing is no longer on free TV. When I was young I remember seeing championship fights on ABC Wide World Of Sports. Not these days you have to pay $55 for some piece of boring **** of a fight.

5. The death of the heavyweight division. This is the Superstar division. it currently lacks talent. All the athletes who could have been heavyweight contenders are in the NFL instead. Can't say that I blame them. If I was 6'5 250 lbs I'd rather play in the NFL than get exploited and used up by some greedy boxing promoter.

4. Protected fighters. Fighters these days dodge each other in order to hang on to their titles longer. Mayweather should be fighting Hatton, but it will never happen because they are both protected to keep their records in tact. Gone are the days of Ali vs. Foreman...in other words top fighter vs. top fighter.

3. Bad decisions. This is sickening to me and the reason I watch boxing less. Whenever I think of Chavez vs. Whitaker I want to puke. I'm sure you know of many ther robberies in the ring.

2. Greed. Instead of wanting to fight each other to prove they are the best, they only want to fight based on the pay day they will recieve. This is the reason why many potentially great match ups never happened.

1. Fight fans have other options. Since boxing is no longer free and you have to pay an arm and a leg to see a Championship fight and it turns out to be a dud, many fight fights are now watching other fighting sports. UFC is free on Spike TV and the numbers show that the UFC PPv is starting to beat the boxing PPV. UFC shows free fights, boxing does not. More exposure for UFC means more numbers when its PPV time.

it's a good thing hearns is still boxing but he will retire soon.

[GunStar]

the numbers don't lie my friend.

The point is Boxing will never die, that will never happen, I can see UFC and MMA being dead maybe in 10 or 20 years but it will never happen to boxing, that's just the fact.

BTW 2.2 mil PPV was not bad last week, which is more then any PPV from MMA or UFC combined.

[Mr. Violence]

You know boxing inst dying its just indecline im not sure why people cant see dat.... **** people thought da world was comin to an end in the day of the depression and look at us now, the fact is things arent always as good as da once where and dats life, if you wanna see something dats dying visit your local hospital! When i turn PRO boxing will be back i promise dat ****

Good luck on turning pro, but unless you are another Sugar Ray Leonard or Ali you won't save boxing.

[Mr. Violence]

The point is Boxing will never die, that will never happen, I can see UFC and MMA being dead maybe in 10 or 20 years but it will never happen to boxing, that's just the fact.

BTW 2.2 mil PPV was not bad last week, which is more then any PPV from MMA or UFC combined.

That's because Oscar was in it.