How can boxing become more of a house hold sport/

[mrpain81]

Network Television and Media coverage

Boxing used to be on the cover of SI all the time back in the day, they used to talk about the fights on every sports show. The last decade the media stopped covering boxing since it became surrounded by nothing but controversy(Bad Decisions,the bite,Don King)

I think boxing has had a renaissance the last 2 years, a ****load of big fights are being made and even ESPN has stepped up it's boxing coverage a bit. Lets not forget that ESPN Classic has boxing every night of the week now(Back in the day it was 1 or 2 times a week) Youtube no doubt helping the sport grow.

Back in the day you had to buy the fights and they never rebroadcast them, now you can find pretty much any fight you want online or watch them on ESPN Classic,Versus Classics,Showtime2. I think HBO should make an all sports channel and show fights and boxing documentarys.

[Alonzo Harris]

The simplest solution would be to the ring girls enter the ring butt naked and the two boxers fight for her and the winner gets to take her home that would make los of people watch boxing.


they could also ban clinches and also stopping/boring tactics so people dont get bored.

[Brockton Lip]

"Fighters fighting more. If you're a fan of a fighter you may only see him fight twice a year, sometimes once. Its very annoying."

question, how often do you suggest that fighters fight per year then?

as I believe a similar suggestion came up before, but the poster wanted fighters to fight every 2-3 months

and I don't think that's at all very realistic

**big difference between prospects who fight 5-6 time a year and go up vs Tomato cans compared to fighters at the Elite level.

It would depend on how the fight went. Cotto and Margarito can certainly rest for months at least and that would be alright (by today's standards), but if a fighter wins by a 1st round knockout without much resistance from the opponent he should not be out of the ring for months. Berto and Williams for example. Williams wants to fight Berto in November and that should be very possible, assuming of course that Berto felt he could step up to that level. Williams says he wants to do it and I think thats great. As far as time is concerned though, that could've been enough time.

[MJ406]

yeah fighters fighting 3 times a year would be appreciated Im all for that

as Berto just finished up on his 3rd fight of the year vs Forbes

and Pavlik will have his 3rd fight this year vs Hopkins.

plus fighting 3 times a year if possible also get's the fighters name out there ... oppose to having 7-8 months of inactivity.

and I'll kinda agree with mrpain that it really seems that boxing almost has "came back to life" and experienced a Renaissance so to speak

i just hope it doesn't all go to **** with the DLH-Pac fight .. and the potential DLH-Hatton fight

as both fights are in danger of hurting the image of boxing (depending on how they turn out)

sure this maybe true

"surrounded by nothing but controversy(Bad Decisions,the bite,Don King)"

but I would also have to think that a bad big fight could also hurt the sport just as badly, if not worse.