No One Cares About Boxing Undercards!!!

[Domain]

good article they need better undercards people dont wanna dish out 50 bucks just for one main event thats why ufc does better by putting exciting fights on the same card in boxing no one goes tot he undercards in ufc people are there from the first card to the last.



Kelly Pavlik-Jermain Taylor Undercard Not Drawing Crowd at MGM Grand

Michael David SmithPosted Feb 16th 2008 9:28PM by Michael David Smith
Filed under: Boxing


Once the Kelly Pavlik-Jermain Taylor fight begins, I'll be live blogging it. But I'm not live blogging the undercard for a very simple reason: No one cares about boxing undercards.

And that's a shame. As I've written before, one of the reasons that UFC has surged in popularity is that fans don't feel like they're shelling out 40 or 50 bucks to watch one fight. A UFC pay-per-view show always has a slate of undercard fights that gets the crowd into a lather, and even if the main event turns out to be a disappointment, few fans think they've gotten ripped off.

That just isn't the case with boxing. I'm currently watching the Ronald Hearns-Juan Astorga undercard fight, and well under half of the seats at the MGM Grand are filled. Most of the people who are in the stands are talking on the phone, talking to each other, or staring blankly into space. No one cares. That picture of a bored-looking Thomas "Hitman" Hearns isn't from watching his son fight tonight, but it might as well be.

The second and third fights of the undercard will be better fights -- Large at Sporting Blog is praising HBO for the card it put together. But I can practically guarantee that the fans won't be enthusiastic about the next two fights, either. The lack of interest in undercards is bad for boxing.

[Kball15]

They need to shorten the entire cards to just 4 fights

The complete garbage they put together for the first 4 or 5 fights is such trash that people get used to not wanting to show up right away.

And when they do show early up they live to regret it.

So it should be 4 fights including main event AND it should be regional. If the fighter in the main event is from Youngstown and half the crowd is front youngstown, make an opponent from youngstown or something

[Domain]

They need to shorten the entire cards to just 4 fights

The complete garbage they put together for the first 4 or 5 fights is such trash that people get used to not wanting to show up right away.

And when they do show early up they live to regret it.

So it should be 4 fights including main event AND it should be regional. If the fighter in the main event is from Youngstown and half the crowd is front youngstown, make an opponent from youngstown or something

yup they need to update there model in boxing, I mean adding the dj is useless lol.

the one time they had a full house was when bob arum had pacquiao vs solis in texas the place was filled from the first card on and its cause like you said 4 fights and they moved it fast.

bob arum doesnt have production rights when he fight son HBO, hbo makes things move so slow because the commentatoers need there chance in the spotlight so they can blowhard for 12-15 minutes before each fight.


on a sidenote in general
they need to stop putting rocky jaurez as co main event for so many big ass fights lol dude makes paint drying funner to watch,.

[ferocity]

I havn't seen the fights yet, but from what i heard, the under cards were good fights. True, not all under cards are like this.

[Domain]

I havn't seen the fights yet, but from what i heard, the under cards were good fights. True, not all under cards are like this.

yup this undercard had good fights but the problem is they dont sell the undercard only the main event so people dont even bother to watch the undercards, they always talk on there sell phone or to others while the undercards are goin on.

[Kball15]

I havn't seen the fights yet, but from what i heard, the under cards were good fights. True, not all under cards are like this.

yea the undercards were good but they were painful to watch because the crowd was SOOOOOOOOO out of it. they couldnt care less about those fights, they came for the main event and thats it

[boxingknight]

the undercards were more exciting then the actual main fight, **** was a letdown in my opinion. Neither looked too great, like they both were afraid of getting ko'd

[Hitman932]

I havn't seen the fights yet, but from what i heard, the under cards were good fights. True, not all under cards are like this.

as lampley pointed out. between the undercards and the main event, there were damn near 30 rounds of boxing before the first clinch

[Scott9945]

The undercards are much better when they are in the East coast in an arena instead of a casino. In Las Vegas these cards start at around 3 or 4 PM. Even if you get there at 6 PM, it is almost vacant and a terrible atmosphere for boxing. There really is no solution for this because it's already night time back east and as far as the off TV fights go, promoters need to keep their mid level fighters busy.

[mrpain81]

Considering Yahoo has started to stream the undercards for free now, and the undercards for last nights PPV were very solid. Who gives a **** what that writter has to say, alot of the boxing crowd that goes to see PPV's are people that are only interested in the Main event. That dosen't hold true to all boxing cards, I go to fights all the time here in vegas. The crowds show up early and watch all the fights.

Its obvious people enjoy the undercards, or else yahoo woulden't be showing them on there site for free, unlike the UFC that charges its fans another 2 dollars for each fight off its site.