Serious Question. How do we get boxing back to it's golden years when everyone cared?

[HitmanTommy]

I miss the days when being a champion was a huge deal and the entire world took notice.

Remember how everyone took notice when Mike Tyson ruled with an iron fist?

How did it come to this where people don't even seem to care anymore?

[Zaryu]

We can't get back to those days with a fragmented sport that doesn't promote the best fighting the best. We need a busy schedule for quality televised fights and make sure the best fight the best. The big fights (PPV events) need to be reasonably priced and reserved for truly special fights between big names in the sport.

[DaNeutral.]

I'm America? Cuz it's doing just fine where I am.

The best fighting the best and these fights happening at the right time. Its as simple as that.

Floyd v Manny did alot of damage to the sport in my opinion. It did amazing numbers but near enough everybody felt after the fight it had happened too late and we were robbed of a classic encounter due to Pacquiao not being what he once was.

Unfortunately that trend has continued and ducking or waiting out fighters until they look like their best days are behind them is now just common practice and that's why numbers have dropped off massively.

Then you got the WILDER BUSINESS MODEL. Wilder could of been a massive super star but he just getting matched with who? Or never heard of him or Bill who works in the car wash. Just imagine if he'd faced and beaten Wlad or Vitali, Martin and Parker for world titles an AJ fight for a career high pay lowball. But he didn't and that's why he isn't a star.

Ppl try to convince us 200k or 300k in PPV's is super star numbers, is it hell, and then they try to say well it is in today's market, is it hell. If. Ike Tyson or YouTube guy Ru Paul can do over a million it proves the EXACT SAME MARKET IS THERE. They just don't want to spend the money on the crap the current era is giving them.

Its not the fighter it's the fight. The fighter has to earn the right to be the fighter ppl wana pay for like Floyd. That's why Spence does just over 200k, Bud 100k but put them together to make a great fight and the numbers will be alot more than 200k+100k. It's not the fighters it is the fight. Match Spence against a has been 140 fighter like Danny G and you get 200k, match Bud and some nobody and you get 100k.

[TMLT87]

You're never gonna be able to go back to exactly how things were up to the 90s because its just a different world now, but it'd obviously help if the biggest possible fights were made on a more consistent basis. Its ****ing insane to think that in theory we could see AJ/Fury 1+2, Wilder/Ruiz, Canelo/GGG 3, Spence/Crawford, Loma/Lopez 2 etc etc all in the space of this year if not for all the politics, ducking and other BS. Boxing basically holds itself back.

[Thuglife Nelo]

OP is gay doe. Said he was leaving the USA whilst enjoying seeing the “white collar” unemployed lines. He even lied being on street beefs.

he doesn’t want to admit that this era is the Mexican beef era! Canelo is the HNIC!

[HitmanTommy]

or bill who works in the car wash.

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nash out]

It's a completely different world now. Look how big the computer game industry is now? Back then, game technology was poor, and hardly anyone spent time playing games. Now people can play computer games, watch films/tv series binges anytime they want, mess about on their phones, Facebook, and Twitter, watch YouTubers, all of these things weren't around then, especially not anywhere near to the extent they are now.

And there are, as there were then, a million other sports to watch, music, etc. Back when Tyson was fighting, you had the choice of watching him fight or twiddling your thumbs, now, there are a million other things people have instant access to. Most people would rather play computer games or binge-watch on Netflix. I watch boxing because I love it, I don't really care about its overall popularity.

Too many people compare it the world in the '90s is the same as the world is now, it's not.

[R-Hand Southpaw]

In my opinion boxing is to MMA what female sports are compared to male sports.

Lackluster.

Combine that with the fact that the fans in this sport are pretty much the ****ing worst consistently bringing race, nation, agendas into every fight and you have yourself a recipe for disaster.

Guys like me have money and are wiling to spend it on fights I want to see, but how many guys these days actually want to fight the best?

Far and few.

Lmfao Teofimo Lopez. He's only gonna fight on PPV now? Jesus. And yet people are STILL gonna support this dude even though those same people can't even afford that PPV right? You know they will and they'll hurt the sport because in boxing people only care about themselves and maximizing their profits.

In other sports there's always a point made that the sport is bigger than oneself. It's ALWAYS like this. The team comes first. The sport comes first.

Is boxing like that? Nope. Can't expect a whole bunch of people who only care about themselves and their brand to care about the sport.

[sicko]

I honestly don't know especially when fight fans now have a BETTER alternative to Boxing with MMA/UFC

Boxing will never die completely because Networks and Apps will continue to invest into it which is great for the fighters. I think PPV's will continue to Flop for the Current fighters though because most of them are just not Interesting enough or known by people outside our very TINY Circle of Hardcore Boxing Fans. It takes more than just best fighting the best in boxing, you have to be able to Market yourself to those who are not Hardcore fans and don't follow boxing like we do and most of these guys can't do that

Long Time Hardcore Boxing Fan but I have to be Brutally Honest I'm enjoying UFC more! UFC Cards are better than Boxing Cards as a whole 98% of the time. Also the Pre-Fight content is incredible on youtube just go look at the amount of Views they get on their youtube channel compared to boxing it is embarrassing for boxing actually.

[just the facts]

OP is gay doe. Said he was leaving the USA whilst enjoying seeing the “white collar” unemployed lines. He even lied being on street beefs.

he doesn’t want to admit that this era is the Mexican beef era! Canelo is the HNIC!

Did you actually come in here with Canelo's palm prints on your azz and his semen on your breathe and call someone else gay? Really? A pole smoker like you? Pot........kettle........black

Did you put on your pink leotards before jerking it to your favorite sweaty Canelo poster today?