Do you think Boxing will ever become what it used to be?

[warp1432]

It's no doubt that boxing has not what it used to be. You can win so many titles, world level anyway.

Do you think that boxing can ever be organized again, (IE: "Corrupt" organizations becoming pure)?

I somewhat do, I think they will never go back to having just one champion, but hopefully at least somethings change once don king dies. Maybe less dumbass juding desicsions(*COUGHTAYLORVSHOPKINSIICOUGH*) and legit champions. Maybe they could have a "true champion" between the 4 world title champions by having some sort of yearly tournament. Sort of like the super bowl to speak. Basically playoffs. I'd think it definietly help the sport.

So, will boxing ever be what it used to be/ what can be done to improve it?

[EMPOROAR]

Sadly. MMA is overtaking boxing. It is just a matter of time. Boxing is almost done. Stick a fork in it. I give it 15 more years and then it will be close to the level of bowling except we will always have the loyal latin followers.

[Banderivets]

I say it once again, its booming in Europe.

[robjr]

I dont think it will ever die. It wont be what it was before though.. guys fighting 1-3 times a year rather to alot more like in the older days.. and ofcourse the biggest thing.. its all about money now.

[Orange Sneakers]

No chance

[Southpaw Stinger]

Sadly. MMA is overtaking boxing. It is just a matter of time. Boxing is almost done. Stick a fork in it. I give it 15 more years and then it will be close to the level of bowling except we will always have the loyal latin followers.

Bull ****. Might be "dying" in America, same as it was when WWF got popular, but in the UK and Europe boxing seems to be on the rise. I was reading lots of past articles from newpapers and magazines and they have been saying how much the sport is in trouble for the past five or six decades. The sport is full of peaks and troughs.
In the early sixites, boxing was barely on tv and the sport was slipping from attention. Then a young man by the name of Cassius Clay entered the top league and the sport took off like a space rocket. All boxing needs is one guy with a perosnality and a punch to turn the sport around.

[damian5000]

Getting rid of pay per view would help. This way huge numbers of people who wouldn't pay to see fights on TV might end up watching and become fans.

[EMPOROAR]

Boxing used to be a mainstream sport with pages of every newspaper being devoted to covering it. It was covered widely on television and a massive amount of resources was spent covering it and broadcasting it and hyping it. Boxing has clearly fallen from the levels where it was at even a decade ago when Tyson and Holyfield fought each other.

Anybody that was around in the 80's all tell you that boxing is not anything like it used to be. You had to be there to understand the difference between now and then. If you're under age 25 there is no way you can understand the difference between the way it used to be and now. If I could take the young crew back in a time machine I would because it was a wonderful time.

Sure, we've got De La Hoya, Mayweather, Pacquiao and Hatton now. But they couldn't hold a candle to the guys that came before them. There is no comparison. As fighters they wouldn't have lasted at all against the best of previous generations. There is just no comparison. It's like comparing summer and winter.

When Gil Clancy was training De La Hoya I read an interview about this very topic. This would have been 1999. he was asked to compare De La Hoya to Emile Griffith and how he thought Oscar might fare with Griffith.

He said there is "no comparison" between the fighters of yesterday and today. Clancy said the "training methods are so different now" and that guys of today are just a lot softer. He said "the vitamins and mixes and training methods" of today are just no comparison to the old days. I should think Clancy would know. He was there for Griffith and he was there for De La Hoya.

Everything is different now. These guys you see today aren't real fighters. Many of them quit on their stools and spit out their mouthpieces when things get a little dirty or a little rough. They just don't have it. They don't. Pacquiao does. Hatton does. But they are the exceptions. Floyd Mayweather, Roy Jones, Antonio Tarver? They aren't real fighters. Come on, now.

[HendrixLove]

Sadly. MMA is overtaking boxing. It is just a matter of time. Boxing is almost done. Stick a fork in it. I give it 15 more years and then it will be close to the level of bowling except we will always have the loyal latin followers.

Are you ****en joking???? Boxing is a world wide sport.

[HendrixLove]

Boxing used to be a mainstream sport with pages of every newspaper being devoted to covering it. It was covered widely on television and a massive amount of resources was spent covering it and broadcasting it and hyping it. Boxing has clearly fallen from the levels where it was at even a decade ago when Tyson and Holyfield fought each other.

Anybody that was around in the 80's all tell you that boxing is not anything like it used to be. You had to be there to understand the difference between now and then. If you're under age 25 there is no way you can understand the difference between the way it used to be and now. If I could take the young crew back in a time machine I would because it was a wonderful time.

Sure, we've got De La Hoya, Mayweather, Pacquiao and Hatton now. But they couldn't hold a candle to the guys that came before them. There is no comparison. As fighters they wouldn't have lasted at all against the best of previous generations. There is just no comparison. It's like comparing summer and winter.

When Gil Clancy was training De La Hoya I read an interview about this very topic. This would have been 1999. he was asked to compare De La Hoya to Emile Griffith and how he thought Oscar might fare with Griffith.

He said there is "no comparison" between the fighters of yesterday and today. Clancy said the "training methods are so different now" and that guys of today are just a lot softer. He said "the vitamins and mixes and training methods" of today are just no comparison to the old days. I should think Clancy would know. He was there for Griffith and he was there for De La Hoya.

Everything is different now. These guys you see today aren't real fighters. Many of them quit on their stools and spit out their mouthpieces when things get a little dirty or a little rough. They just don't have it. They don't. Pacquiao does. Hatton does. But they are the exceptions. Floyd Mayweather, Roy Jones, Antonio Tarver? They aren't real fighters. Come on, now.

WOW this post is lame. lol, boxers today would have mopped the floor with the fighters of long ago. Just compare the top fighters of today to the ones of before, its like comparing the Playstation 1 to the Playstation 3