Would you rather see boxers fight more often?

[ShoulderRoll]

Even if it means they have to throw some easier fights into the mix?

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Yeah but I don’t want their to be complete mismatches like Canelo-Yildirim, Garcia-Salka etc.

Take Canelo for example, a soft touch for him would be Anthony Dirrell, there’s no reason to sink as low as Yildirim. FTR, I understand it was a WBC mandatory, I’m just using it as an example.

[blowblow]

pacquiao.. he was always exciting and people gets the best out of their bucks.. entertaining unlike the young divas right now.. more on talks.

[-Kev-]

I would like them to fight more times but unlike many fans I know it’s unrealistic to fight 10 times in a year without some of the opponents being a bum of the month/tomato can. Anyone who thinks Yildirim is bad needs to pause, check out the opponents of fighters with 100+ pro fights and then come back. Even now, a pro fighter will not fight 3-4 times a year without at least 1 of those being mediocre.

If we were in back in the day, i’d be offered a fight with Sugar Ray Robinson and be added to his resume and fans would say how great he is. Now if Canelo fights me, he’d be an embarrassment to the sport. Things changed a lot. Fans have more information available to them, there’s more ways to interact about the sport now. It’s no longer 5 fans discussing in a barber shop only. Now it’s 2,000 fans discussing a fight in a forum. Not to mention tv, streams, smartphones, that’s more eyes on boxing than back then when all they had was newspapers or pay to be in attendance. This all leads to more critique of such things as mediocre opponents. Which leads to fighters fighting higher quality opponents. Which leads to fighting less per year. And let’s not forget networks and the fees paid to these networks per fight. It wasn’t that bad back then. Now it costs promoters a small fortune to put a fighter on a good network. They have to make that money back. And for that they need eyes on their boxer. For that, they need a semi good to good opponent at least.

Too many things have changed to go back to fighters fighting once per month. Main thing is money and fans. Fans nowadays, even the one’s that say “back in the day”, are going to b.tch if they see a boxer like Errol Spence fight 12 times in a year, with 10 of those being no hopers, and two being considered good fighters.

Lastly, injuries. We know more about health and safety today than we did back in those golden age days. You can say we have become weaker all you want, the truth is, across all sports, we have found out about more injuries that can’t be ignored or else it leads to a shortened career or even worse, shortened life. Yes baseball pitchers pitched through arm injuries that today a pitcher would be out for a full season for. Yes a boxer who suffered a concussion back in the 1940s could still box the next month. But things have changed medically. We are no longer neanderthals. Both pro boxing and MMA now suspend fighters after KO losses. So if a fighter gets KO’ed, he can’t box again until 6 months passed or whatever the suspension amount is.

Some fans won’t care of such a thing but at least just realize that the human brain is not there to take brutal hard hits frequently and then go from there. Take your “hardcore fan” cap off for a moment and just think about how fragile the brain is. Just be realistic for once.

[The3]

Yes why you have all these guys under 30 only fighting 2X per years those guys can fight 4X per year..... But I get it too many overpaid boxers

[rickJen]

Luis Ortiz's last fight took him only 45 seconds in the first round
to beat a bum. Dancing with the stars is more grueling in comparison.
He could have fought one more fight the next day.

Yet where is he now? Is he retired or what?
His management team (which includes Haymon)
is behaving as if he's still in his mid 20s.
Where is Charles Martin? Where is Kownacki?

[blowblow]

Yes why you have all these guys under 30 only fighting 2X per years those guys can fight 4X per year..... But I get it too many overpaid boxers

less show but paid more.. but don't worry those young divas are giving us a show on social media.
exactly like this gif..

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