top ten reasons boxing is dying

[Sin City]

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

He won't save boxing with that big ass beer belly!

[GunStar]

That's because Oscar was in it.

Oscar biggest PPV was 1.5 mil against Tito, this one sold 700000 more, Oscar is not the only PPV guys in boxing.

Oscar, PBF, Pac, Hopkins etc...

[guru]

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

i agree boxing will never die, but its losing its audience.... who's going to replace oscar as the sport's cash cow?? theres nobody in sight right now...

[Sin City]

That's because Oscar was in it.

It still did 2.2... Has UFC ever done that? I remember the UFC was at a low point and it jumped back up.. same thing with boxing. ALL sports have their low points in time, and even then.. Boxing is getting bigger on a global scale... Its only in America that its on a decline. But it will jump back up..

[wiso2008]

I don't think boxing would ever die but I think it will be second to MMA in couple of years. Lets see Kermit Cintron Vs this Sean Srek from UFC

[Benny Leonard]

Boxing will not die unless Jesus actually does come back and makes heaven on earth.

Like Hopkins said, "As long as their is a ******, their will be boxing"

Boxing is growing with more facilities, in places like Russia (or so I hear) because of poverty, all while knowing at the same time there is money (with the boost of Russia's economy) that can be made.

Destroy the middle-class and you will have boxing.

Give us "Depression" and you will have boxing.

Hard Times, with the promise of a better life = The Will to fight

Boxing was down in the trash many times, only to come back alive.

Even when it was alive and well in ancient Greece and Rome, died down into the basement for centuries, only to come back alive in the 19th/20th century.

[James78]

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

nicely put brother, boxing goes back to the time of the Egyptians.

[Benny Leonard]

Boxing still needs a strategy to compete with MMA.

Fans flock to good fights, no matter if they are MMA or boxing.

Take for example: if you get two guys from MMA to only use their fists in their fight {"boxing"}, with the 4oz gloves, people would still watch.

[Super Cartel]

UFC fighters dont get paid no where near what Boxers get paid..
**** randy couture can just about afford a humer
what does that tell you?

It will never pick up in the UK either..
Its been shown for years for free all the ppvs on Bravo channel
and its only now getting its first show live in the UK...

[Technical_Skill]

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.

Boxing will never die, its history is too rich, sorry to dissapoint you.

On may 5th there were 2.5 million reasons boxing is still very much alive.