Boxing's Image and perception .. and other thoughts

[ßringer]

Personally I don't find this sport that hard to follow.

You've got 4 real Champions per division (IBF,IBO,WBC,WBO), sometimes less when they fight each other and unify.

I find baseball much harder to follow.

[Kris Silver]

People who ain't diehard followers could care less about the corruption and alphabet confusion so long as it don't affect the 1 or 2 fighters they enuf about to watch. This **** affects serious fans more cuz they're up on the happenings of the sport. Casual fans don't know enuf about the sanctionin fees and cherrypickin by top fighters to have a bad opinion on it. I'd say on the whole, boxing is closer to havin no image wit mainstream America than a bad image. My pops and some cats he knows talk the back in the day talk about how much better boxing used to be, but they love it too much to quit watchin completely. I don't personally know of anybody that used to be a diehard and is waitin for 1 good reason to get excited again, tho I'm sure there's a ****load of em out there.

Personally I don't find this sport that hard to follow.

You've got 4 real Champions per division (IBF,IBO,WBC,WBO), sometimes less when they fight each other and unify.

I find baseball much harder to follow.

I personally think it is pretty damn confusing to follow as a whole. Look at the most popular sport in the world, football or rather soccer. It's generally very clear to see whose ranked where and why. Whose better than who and why, and there's often a rough consensus. That cannot be said for boxing which has worsened in that sense over the past 20 years, during which it's also become less popular. That's no coincidence if you ask me.

People become obsessed with football, golf, tennis stats when they can rely on them, support there man and assess quite clearly there definite rank and place within the sport. With boxing that can't be said hence instead of easily knowing whose champion, #1, why, you have numerous different champions and ranking systems, all of which vary, multiplying views and avoiding consensus of ranking. Terrible hindrance to someone who naturally wants to follow a logical simple sport, which boxing was and could be.

[The Surgeon]

I know i can get confused when discussing why someone is the Interm champ, True champ Lineal Champ, Super champ Intercontenetal champ and Champion emeriutus - What chance does the public at large have!?

[MJ406]

Personally I don't find this sport that hard to follow.

You've got 4 real Champions per division (IBF,IBO,WBC,WBO), sometimes less when they fight each other and unify.

I find baseball much harder to follow.

yeah with that 162 game regular season things can get pretty tedious .. I can't stand pro baseball for the record

and agree if your just getting into the sport yeah it's kinda hard to understand at first with all the recognized champs and etc

but again this is stuff that can be looked up and found via the internet or just asking other people online

all the Alphabet organizations (WBO, WBA, WBC and IBF have websites as well) so the info is readily available

and Intercontinental Champ?? uh that's in Pro Wrestling.

**and you can't really compare Boxing to a sport that has a set league and season such as football or baseball

of course it's easier to tell in a 16 game season who the better Football teams are because they play week in week out and just about every team plays each other ... in same conference at least

where boxing like you said is all across the board with it's ranking system.

but that's what kinda makes the sport so exciting. nothing's really set in stone so to speak.

[daggum]

imagine if a pro baseball team played a high school team for most of their games. aka what calzaghe does. this is why people don't like boxing.