Things that make the sport today worst then it was in the past

[baddest]

What do yout hink makes the sport worst today then it was back then?

I'll start with, weigh-ins.
They allow fighters who have no place being in certain classes to fight in them. Take Sugar Shane & DLH @ 135. in the case of shane, his record will always be controversial because he was pretty much fighting above 135 everytime. And DLH was a man who had NO reason to be in the lightweight division. AM I right?

Keep this thread going and give more reasons.

[Fox McCloud]

Fighting once in 6 months.

[MANGLER]

Every ****in fight is on PPV for ridiculous prices.

[2501]

boxers being more businesmen than boxers. its fine to be both but when you forsake the fans who made you a millionaire, that **** aint right.

[Ras44]

Judging.

Imagine Calzaghe against Hagler trying to slap him to death, or Hopkins trying to con him into a punch for the whole 3 minutes. Or Mayweather running a marathon for 15 rounds against Leonard.

[MikeBrew328]

fights being on channel 750 instead of 7.

better fights being PPV for 54.95


fighters fighiting once a year

[abadger]

Hope you won't mind if I qute myself from earlier today:

As boxing fans in the modern era we are being robbed on a daily basis. I hadn't really thought that much about whether boxiing was 'good' or not until I started getting into it more seriously, and going back and watching older fights. It was way better back then, the boxers fought more, and most importantly they fought the right people. This on its own lead to more entertaining fights, and it helped show who the best boxers were. That fed back and kept boxing popular.

I lay the blame for boxings decline squarely at the door of the promoters. As the money involved in the sport went up they realised they could make a ton out of mediocre boxers by artificially inflating their records through slowing the number of fights down to a crawl, and picking and choosing easy opponents, who of course also had blown up reputations too. Throw in multiple corrupt sanctioning bodies and suddenly virtually any fighter can be a an undefeated champ and make massive paydays beating mediocre opposition.

The situation we find ourselves in now is ludicrous. Even B-Level fights take aeons to be made, with umming and ahhing over choice of opponents and purse bids on what should be routine, brisk mandatory defences and eliminator bouts. Prospects don't fight anyone until they are approaching thirty, and our creme de la creme tend to be in their mid thirties, way past it back in the day, and in the modern era in reality, but safe with their sheltered reputations because they only fight each other while the young lions who would probably beat them are busy knocking over tomato cans. Even when we get a real exception to this rule, say Mayweather or De La Hoya, both of whom were at the top of the game while very young, by the time they reach veteran status they have given up the legitimate defending and winnning of titles in favour of once yearly exhibition bouts.

In short, modern boxing is a travesty, and we fans put up with it because its all we have. The spectacle and product is so glossy and well put together, the hype so overwhelming, that even the most cynical of us fall for the bait come fight night. Well they'll keep doing it while we keep cheering, and as boxing fans, I'm afraid, we ain't going to stop.

[Clegg]

What do yout hink makes the sport worst today then it was back then?

I'll start with, weigh-ins.
They allow fighters who have no place being in certain classes to fight in them. Take Sugar Shane & DLH @ 135. in the case of shane, his record will always be controversial because he was pretty much fighting above 135 everytime. And DLH was a man who had NO reason to be in the lightweight division. AM I right?

Keep this thread going and give more reasons.

Didn't LaMotta weigh something like 162lbs for a welterweight fight with SRR? I don't know the circumstances surrounding that to be fair, but I thought the weight issue had been around for quite a while.

I would say that without a doubt the thing that annoys me the most is that the best do not fight one another often enough. The alphabet belts are also very bad for the sport.

[Scott9945]

Judging.

Imagine Calzaghe against Hagler trying to slap him to death, or Hopkins trying to con him into a punch for the whole 3 minutes. Or Mayweather running a marathon for 15 rounds against Leonard.

Believe me when I tell you, there has been bad judging as long as there has been boxing. Hagler was screwed out of his first title with a draw against Vito Antufuermo, a guy with a fraction of the talent of Hopkins or Calzaghe.

[Thread Stealer]

Big name HBO fighters get paid more nowadays, so they tend to fight less often.

The HW champs in the past got paid well so some of them weren't very active, but other guys usually were fairly active.

I don't like the weigh-in procedures, although I understand the reason why they changed the rules. I don't like the alphabet soup. I mean there's almost always been some sort of alphabet soup but not to the ridiculous extent of today.

But make no mistake, despite the past being better in a number of regards, the present day has its advantages as well.

There was a lot of ****ed up **** going on in the past too.