No offense to anyone but...

[ferocity]

Boxing will come back to life like it was decades ago.

Have you guys ever heard of the pendulum effect?

It's like in Government, when things are swinging all the way to the left, they slowly start swinging all the way back to the right (like a pendulum)

(the last time frame) of boxing's glory years were basically the 70s-80s, boxing then started to die down and if you notice, it's starting to pick itself back up.

I should write a book.

You're forgetting the 90's when Chavez still sold good. And DElahoya ruled in fame and ppv and was all over tv both American and spanish tv. Even now every time Delahoya fights its an event and everybody wants to watch and be part of.

[rizkybizness]

You're forgetting the 90's when Chavez still sold good. And DElahoya ruled in fame and ppv and was all over tv both American and spanish tv. Even now every time Delahoya fights its an event and everybody wants to watch and be part of.

Compare the 90s to the 80s.

[fragilety]

Once American hits another great depression people will flock back into the gym

here in Richmond, boxing sometimes doesnt even make the sports page at all.. and if any fight makes the page it is usually behind even high school football all the way in the back(even the big ones)

[MikeBrew328]

Things will SEEM worse, then they will get a lot better. I guarantee it.

[Motofan]

yep..when tyson got ko'd it was on the front page..my paper never has anything about boxing in it

I remember the morning after that happened. I went fishing and EVERYONE was talking about it everywhere you went. It was insane.

[We want Floyd]

The funding for these gyms went down over the years...Hartford used to have FOUR or FIVE gyms back in the 80's...now they have one gym that is producing very little...

I'm not following you here, Ice. When you say funding. You mean these gyms were paying the bills through donations or what?

I figured these boxing gyms were a business for profit ala Gleason's, just like these MMA gyms now. I know about the PAL's and the Youth Community gyms that teach boxing

[ferocity]

Compare the 90s to the 80s.

I can't was'nt a fan then.

[The Scientist]

This shows how much different big time boxing TODAY is as compared to the 80's...the day after Holmes-Cooney, Howard Cosell was out by the ring in the empty arena interviewing Gerry Cooney live on ABC Sports....and in 1985 you had these two http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JC8K5tCaa8o talking about their fight live on network TV...etc etc...can you imagine, say, Taylor and Pavlick , etc being interviewed live on NETWORK TV about their fight...it wouldnt happen...it's just a differnt era...boxing has been pushed to small print on page 12....sucks...

So called sports sections that don't include Boxing are common place in my area. Boxing is the black sheep of sports plain and simple, not a gentleman sport like Tennis or Golf which gets more interest from the general public. The whole Boxing is too barbaric for Network T.V. stigma, at first, I thought was the culprit but when you have monster Networks like CBS picking up MMA then that gets you wondering.

Now that CBS had to cancel their MMA venture, I hope they try to bring back Saturday night Boxing events like the old days. I think resurrecting Live Boxing on Network T.V. would bring in even more casual fans.

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

I'm not following you here, Ice. When you say funding. You mean these gyms were paying the bills through donations or what?

I figured these boxing gyms were a business for profit ala Gleason's, just like these MMA gyms now. I know about the PAL's and the Youth Community gyms that teach boxing

Most gyms are NOT as lucky as Gleason's to be able to extract revenue like that...many gyms are PAL gyms...etc...they rely on city, town or state funding...I just heard yesterday at PAL gym in a local town here, for example, a gym that has been open since 1994, is set to be cut off from funding in a month or so.

[KostyaTszyu44]

Once American hits another great depression people will flock back into the gym

yup

thats why im hoping the economy gets worse all over the world, people will start getting desperate again and fighting for a living