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MMA is growing in popularity day by day. Boxing is still more popular, but most of that fanbase is an older demographic. The 15-30 male would choose MMA over Boxing to watch most of the time.
These reasons are varied and many but I will list the ones i can think of:
*MMA is more violent. The kids love violence nowadays.
*MMA is much, much, much more cleverly marketed.
*People like to be associated with new "In" sports.
*People would rather watch a streetfight because its something they can relate to.
*There are more succesful white fighters.
*Fights are shorter
*Fight cards are packed
*It seems the mostly ADD riddled youth of america dont appreciate the beauty of a master boxer. It just isnt EXTREME! enough for them.
People have been prediciting the death of Boxing ever since Kickboxing came onto the scene in the 80s. That sport was succesful for many of the reasons above but died out in the 90s when it went out of fashion.
It do not beleive MMA will die out as rapidly. This is because of the interent. MMA fans can talk, slag off boxing, watch fights and just generally spread the word. I was watching a fight on youtube when i scrolled down to see a ton of poorly written, energy drink fuelled slag from MMA fans.
This signifies the average MMA fans attitude towards boxing. It is a threat and goes against everything their sport stands for.
Comparing PPV numbers isnt really far considereing Boxing is usually more expensive, As is what you read on the internet, as MMA fans are generally much more vocal and young enough to grow up with the internet.
Anyway. Boxing needs to do something to get back on top. Here are some suggestions that ive come up with. I have tried to make sure the suggestions dont change boxing too much eg: Shorter fights would mean we dont get any epic Leonard/Hears, Gatti/ward type back/forwards type fights.
*Make the gloves smaller. Maybe a 6oz for the lower weights and work your way up.
*Scale up the scoring for effective agression
*Unify the organisations
*Televise fights for free
*Hopefully a unified org would make the top fighters actually fight eachother
*Increase penalties for clinching
*Stratergies to induct young talent such as schoolastic activities
*More television ads
*AND PLEASE PACK THE CARDS FULL OF GOOD FIGHTS! THIS ALONE WOULD SAVE BOXING!
What do you guys think?
These reasons are varied and many but I will list the ones i can think of:
*MMA is more violent. The kids love violence nowadays.
*MMA is much, much, much more cleverly marketed.
*People like to be associated with new "In" sports.
*People would rather watch a streetfight because its something they can relate to.
*There are more succesful white fighters.
*Fights are shorter
*Fight cards are packed
*It seems the mostly ADD riddled youth of america dont appreciate the beauty of a master boxer. It just isnt EXTREME! enough for them.
People have been prediciting the death of Boxing ever since Kickboxing came onto the scene in the 80s. That sport was succesful for many of the reasons above but died out in the 90s when it went out of fashion.
It do not beleive MMA will die out as rapidly. This is because of the interent. MMA fans can talk, slag off boxing, watch fights and just generally spread the word. I was watching a fight on youtube when i scrolled down to see a ton of poorly written, energy drink fuelled slag from MMA fans.
This signifies the average MMA fans attitude towards boxing. It is a threat and goes against everything their sport stands for.
Comparing PPV numbers isnt really far considereing Boxing is usually more expensive, As is what you read on the internet, as MMA fans are generally much more vocal and young enough to grow up with the internet.
Anyway. Boxing needs to do something to get back on top. Here are some suggestions that ive come up with. I have tried to make sure the suggestions dont change boxing too much eg: Shorter fights would mean we dont get any epic Leonard/Hears, Gatti/ward type back/forwards type fights.
*Make the gloves smaller. Maybe a 6oz for the lower weights and work your way up.
*Scale up the scoring for effective agression
*Unify the organisations
*Televise fights for free
*Hopefully a unified org would make the top fighters actually fight eachother
*Increase penalties for clinching
*Stratergies to induct young talent such as schoolastic activities
*More television ads
*AND PLEASE PACK THE CARDS FULL OF GOOD FIGHTS! THIS ALONE WOULD SAVE BOXING!
What do you guys think?
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