The future looks bad

[teakay]

Here is what I see for the future of boxing. I see Oscar's retireing within 2 years. Tyson, Sugar Shane, Barrera, Roy Jones, Hopkins, and probably Tinidad may be gone around that time too.

With all the big names I see leaving, I don't see enough up and coming talent to pick up the slack. We will still have Mayweather, Morales, PacMan, Corrales, Spinks, and Cotto. But there is nobody I feel will have the drawing power anywhere near the level of DLH or Tyson or even Roy Jones. Without them, the state of boxing is going to go downhill.

Am I right or is it too soon to tell?

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Here is what I see for the future of boxing. I see Oscar's retireing within 2 years. Tyson, Sugar Shane, Barrera, Roy Jones, Hopkins, and probably Tinidad may be gone around that time too.

With all the big names I see leaving, I don't see enough up and coming talent to pick up the slack. We will still have Mayweather, Morales, PacMan, Corrales, Spinks, and Cotto. But there is nobody I feel will have the drawing power anywhere near the level of DLH or Tyson or even Roy Jones. Without them, the state of boxing is going to go downhill.

Am I right or is it too soon to tell?

Morales has great drawing power now nearly all his cards are PPV. Anyway soon he will be gone too. New people will emerge. Chavez Jr. looks like the real deal. He just turned 18 and he is in such great shape and conditioning he would make many champs blush of embarrasement.

I dont think we will really feel a dark age of boxing like some do at the heavyweight division.

[spinksjinx]

Agree with the heavyweights, it is a glum day their...


Anything above 160 is a snooze fest anymore...

But their is tarver,brathwaite. Uhh ok scratch that not many lol.....

For the next 2-3 years we have some great fights lined up and to be made, by then cotto will be an established star and we will have some new fighters brought in. Hopefully Jermain Taylor will be established as well....New champions/fighters will be in the picture by 2005, I wouldnt worry about it to much......Now in the heavyweight division, I wont touch that one.

[NichtGeflechten]

Eastern Europe will start to expand it's market share of boxing & I can't wait. Too many boxers today are shallow spoiled vociferous b****....I like my action in the ring NOT in a rap video or an NBA advertisement or an episode of MTV Cribs or whatever the **** weakly qualifies as "entertainment" today.

[Winter]

Future looks fine to me. Heavyweights look fine to me too. I think fans sometimes have image of boxer in their mind, somehow they get this image in their mind, and if other boxers they see do not exactly fit this image, they assume it is bad boxing. The image everyone has for great heavyweights now unfortunately is Tyson. So, unfortunately many fans today if they see heavyweights that do not look like Tyson, they think it is not great boxing. Sadly, they are mistakened.

[Dark Destroyer]

New champions are in the making as we speak, talent always presents itself. We may not have another Roy Jones or Bernard Hopkins or Oscar De La Hoya but i don't doubt that we will have great fighters. It's just always sad to see the end of an era of a fighter you enjoy watching fight and respect. I was sad when Lennox retired, that devastated the heavyweight division in my opinion.

[J !]

yeah I mean boxing didnt die when Leonard, hagler, hearns and duran(latter two efectively even tho they boxed on as shadows of their former selves)) all went within a few years of one another. look at the light welter division or the feathers, its packed to the rafters with great match ups, with more talent coming through by the year.

May well just be the shift in the decent match ups is at the lower weights rather than super middle and above.

i can handle that.

[NichtGeflechten]

It devastated the heavyweight division because he held out like a queen fairy and held up the line of succession. He went out like a *****. He'll be forgotten by the casual boxing fan in 2-3 years.

[Dark Destroyer]

yeah I mean boxing didnt die when Leonard, hagler, hearns and duran(latter two efectively even tho they boxed on as shadows of their former selves)) all went within a few years of one another. look at the light welter division or the feathers, its packed to the rafters with great match ups, with more talent coming through by the year.

May well just be the shift in the decent match ups is at the lower weights rather than super middle and above.

i can handle that.

The Leonard, Hagler, Duran and Hearns era was amazing, boxing survived their departure so i am confident that boxing would survive any of todays champions departues too.

[Dark Destroyer]

It devastated the heavyweight division because he held out like a queen fairy and held up the line of succession. He went out like a *****. He'll be forgotten by the casual boxing fan in 2-3 years.

You really think so? I doubt that very much to be perfectly honest. Lennox was the great heavyweight of the 90's, he won't be forgotten. I admit perhaps he should have given Vitali a remtach but he didn't. Even Vitali admitted that he fought an out of shape Lennox, if Lennox beat Vitali not in shape then what would have happened if he would have been in shape?