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By Jake Donovan - Once upon a time, boxing was a sport where one or two losses didn’t even make for a bad year, never mind write off a fighter’s entire career.
Slowly but surely, the sport is making efforts to drift back to the way things were. This year is the extremely scaled down version of how the game was played back in the day, but we’re once again enjoying better fights on the normal boxing outlets.
We’re seeing fewer $50 pay-per-views clutter up our schedule.
Promoters aren’t taking network money and bolting for the nearest casino. Instead, they’re actually promoting.
Our top fighters? They’re fighting, regardless of the risk/reward factor. They’re still winning for the most part, but every once in a while they lose.
But they still come back.
Alfredo “El Perro” Angulo still has a ways to go before he can be confused with the best junior middleweights in the world. He appeared to be on his way when 2008 became 2009.
A string of knockouts against respectable – and progressing – competition caught the eye of many in the boxing industry, most notably cable giant HBO, who jumped on his bandwagon last year. [details]
Slowly but surely, the sport is making efforts to drift back to the way things were. This year is the extremely scaled down version of how the game was played back in the day, but we’re once again enjoying better fights on the normal boxing outlets.
We’re seeing fewer $50 pay-per-views clutter up our schedule.
Promoters aren’t taking network money and bolting for the nearest casino. Instead, they’re actually promoting.
Our top fighters? They’re fighting, regardless of the risk/reward factor. They’re still winning for the most part, but every once in a while they lose.
But they still come back.
Alfredo “El Perro” Angulo still has a ways to go before he can be confused with the best junior middleweights in the world. He appeared to be on his way when 2008 became 2009.
A string of knockouts against respectable – and progressing – competition caught the eye of many in the boxing industry, most notably cable giant HBO, who jumped on his bandwagon last year. [details]
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