Who has the best national boxing scene?

[eubank1]

What im getting at is i think there is no scene quite like the british scene at the minute. I think the way the bbbofc do business is second to none! im just wondering what the other national scenes are like? not for world champions but their respective countrys boxing health!

[dans]

America is miserable on a local level. There's barely any gyms and the sports fans don't care about it at all.

[eubank1]

America is miserable on a local level. There's barely any gyms and the sports fans don't care about it at all.

thats interesting to hear considering how well the U.S fighters do at world level if the domestic level isnt up to much and i consider the british scene to be very good but were not so great on the world stage too often!

[El Jaguar]

Mexico has the best Boxing Scene right now.

There's always boxing on National TV, every Saturday.

Sometimes 3 National TV Channels show cards at the same time on Saturdays.

Televisa, TV Azteca, Cadena Tres.

Boxing is booming in Mexico.

[Isola]

That's quite interesting - is the majority of your coverage in Mexico and other countries on free to view TV channels or cable?

In the UK although the OP is right there are some good live shows going on, boxing is really being hurt IMO by the lack of terestrial TV coverage. One channel (ITV) has some bills on again in the last year or so but for many years we had nothing as Sky took it all away from a lot of us.

I guess it does mean people might make more of an effort to actually go and watch the fights live, we do seem to sell more tickets here in Britain for our shows than in for example the USA. Perhaps that's also one good side of having less fighters at a world level, more domestic competiton and better matched fights.

As for the fighters themselves, I wonder if we sometimes get too caught up in the domestic scene and don't move on to world level soon enough. For example the UK heavyweight scene in the last 5 years or so has been one massive merry-go-round with the same guys fighting each other without moving to a higher level. That might be down to a lack of real talent or ambition but maybe it's better to bypass the domestics and go straight to world level like the Americans perhaps?

Or conversely maybe US fighters just don't have to wait so long for international fighters to match against - after all a lot more boxers from around the world go to the states to fight, you don't often see Americans go outside the states themselves early in their careers (or ever to be honest).