top ten reasons boxing is dying

[adietheforestfa]

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...

World Champion Junior The Hitter Witter can only afford a 1.3 Hyundai.

[HendrixLove]

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

As bad as you say boxing is, even at this stage the average boxer makes a whole lot more then a star UFC fighter.

[HendrixLove]

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...

Who cares about Oscar, cause him fighting never even did anything to put boxing back in mainstream for good. When Oscar retires it's going to be the same as when he didn't have a fight. All Oscar did was bring in a lot of casual fans when only he was fighting. We need fighters that get we'll promoted and make for exciting fights. Imagine if Oscar/Floyd turned out like Castillo/Corrales 1, you could be damn sure that would have made a big impact. I hate how big boxing events never put on great undercards under big fights to show the people that the main events fighters are not the only fighters to look out for.

[Hydro]

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.

I disagree with 9, 8, 3, and 2. I'm not sure about PPV, since boxing hardly gets sponsors, it might be necessary.

There's plenty of talented and skilled fighters out there. It's easy to look at the older fighters and gloss over how great they were, but they had flaws like today's fighters. They may have been better then, but there's plenty of talent nowadays.

Boring fights is another "nostalgic" thing. There's plenty of entertaining fights and saying we'll never see another Hagler-Hearns type fight is nonsense. Just two years ago we have Corrales-Castillo I which, for pure action (and not the event) was superior to Hagler-Hearns. There were plenty of boring fights back when boxing was popular. With the exception of the Cleveland Williams fight, most of Ali's defenses in his first reign from 64-67 were dull. Ever try to sit thru Duran-Lampkin in full? It's not a pretty thing to watch.
The ending was spectacular, the rest of the fight was a Ruiz-Rahman like clinchfest.

There's always been robberies in boxing. That's nothing new at all. Same with greed. It's always been about money. During some of boxing's "heydays", it was no different at all. Frankie Carbo in the 1950s wasn't exactly looking to do things in the best interest of the sport.

[Liaison]

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.

Thats the main reason why it's been in somewhat of a decline.