No One Cares About Boxing Undercards!!!

[mrpain81]

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.

That's a good point..

There have been times even me in the past, I diden't show up till maybe the semi Main event. But alot of that is due to the fact I used to drink alot and beers are like 8 bucks at the fights, so me and my buddies would hang out in the casino drinking till it was almost time for the main event..

Sometimes people don't like to sit around for 6 hours drinking 8 dollar beers and eating 6 dollar hotdogs.. That might also lead to the reason UFC crowds are always booing, fights go 20 seconds without action and the crowd is booing its ass off.

[SkillspayBills]

They need to work on making the undercard fights ones that want to be watched. The UFC does have their main event as a focus but they also give airtime to their undercard bouts, which can get more fans into the viewing.

[javelin_fangs]

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.

Honest question man. Do you even like boxing? The 115 lb division is the best division below 147 in boxing. That was a very good undercard. But there are a lot of people who refuse to watch anyone under welter or lightweight, which I don't understand, but I know there are those people our there. But that and it actually being a bad undercard are not one in the same.

[2501]

Its all about how the fight is presented. Obviously, the main event is the fight that needs to be promoted but emphasis is NEEDED on the undercards that actually mean something. A certain atmosphere and drama needs to be promoted for the undercards. Instead of flyers and posters with information on the main event, the undercards need to be added to make the purchases/audience know that they are not just paying for the main event but for good undercards as well. Commercials needs to be made with info on the whole night or most important parts of the whole night so that purchasers can feel better about spending 50 bones on a fight and not feel that the undercards are just a motion that they can ignore untill the main bout is on

[Domain]

Honest question man. Do you even like boxing? The 115 lb division is the best division below 147 in boxing. That was a very good undercard. But there are a lot of people who refuse to watch anyone under welter or lightweight, which I don't understand, but I know there are those people our there. But that and it actually being a bad undercard are not one in the same.

actually the Featherweight division is one of hte biggest draws in boxing.

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