So then what...

[egreezy]

After Pacquiao, Cotto, Mosley, Mayweather, Marquez all fight each other it seems like they will all retire. I think its setting up boxing fans for ultimate high and then crash like a roller coaster. It should be all cleared up by 2011, but after that what should we expect from boxing?

[Ravishing]

After Pacquiao, Cotto, Mosley, Mayweather, Marquez all fight each other it seems like they will all retire. I think its setting up boxing fans for ultimate high and then crash like a roller coaster. It should be all cleared up by 2011, but after that what should we expect from boxing?

There's a lot of promise out there. Who would've thought in 2004 that we would be seeing Miguel Cotto vs Manny Pacquiao?

And I don't believe all those guys will be totally done by 2011. Shane Mosley was in his prime in 2000-2002...and 7 yrs later is the Weltwerweight champion.

[MANGLER]

There will always be newer stars to carry boxing when the top guys roll out. It sucks to watch the big dogs age and retire, but boxing will be fine.

[IMDAZED]

After Pacquiao, Cotto, Mosley, Mayweather, Marquez all fight each other it seems like they will all retire. I think its setting up boxing fans for ultimate high and then crash like a roller coaster. It should be all cleared up by 2011, but after that what should we expect from boxing?

You kidding? It never stops. Remember how everyone was whining about how boxing would die when Oscar retired? And then Tyson before him? Leonard? Ali? On and on.

[mickey malone]

After Pacquiao, Cotto, Mosley, Mayweather, Marquez all fight each other it seems like they will all retire. I think its setting up boxing fans for ultimate high and then crash like a roller coaster. It should be all cleared up by 2011, but after that what should we expect from boxing?

The wheels on the bus go round and round, always have and always will..
Valero's probably gonna upset 1 or 2 of em for a start.. Then someone (we don't know about yet) will probably do it to him, & so on.... Good fighters come along like buses, normally when you're least expecting them....

[egreezy]

I forgot Hatton too. Basically 4 superstars leaving about the same time. And around that time all hype jobs will have been exposed too.

[SuckaPunch]

There's nothing to worry, because of Tyson Fury...

[egreezy]

You kidding? It never stops. Remember how everyone was whining about how boxing would die when Oscar retired? And then Tyson before him? Leonard? Ali? On and on.

I'm not saying its going to die, just want to know who people think will pick up the slack. I don't think its going to be the same because the people that are leaving have been keeping it relevant to the mainstream post Tyson.

The wheels on the bus go round and round, always have and always will..
Valero's probably gonna upset 1 or 2 of em for a start.. Then someone (we don't know about yet) will probably do it to him, & so on.... Good fighters come along like buses, normally when you're least expecting them....

Yeah I expect Lopez, Valero, Ortiz to keep the lower divisions exciting but not sure how much they will cross over.

[egreezy]

I'm just saying have all the top guys in boxing every bowed out all at once around the same time? Especially after fighting each other would bring the sport lots of attention and mega fights without anything for the mainstream to follow up on.

[IMDAZED]

I'm not saying its going to die, just want to know who people think will pick up the slack. I don't think its going to be the same because the people that are leaving have been keeping it relevant to the mainstream post Tyson.

Someone will pick up the slack. Pacquiao wasn't a big name a couple years ago too.