Storylines in boxing never advance. It’s a problem.

[MulaKO]

Really good thread. Do you think Bivol vs Beterbiev will happen?

Imo , it will only because both fighters want that fight
I know Beterbiev will push for it
I’m thinking Bivol will also since he has a chance to grab all belts at once

[Charlie Zelenoff]

Please unban, Sr. He was a great poster, even while trolling.

[Nash out]

Wilder and Joshua was a big fight everyone wanted to see.

The storyline never advanced and no one cares now.

Now it’s Fury and Joshua.

It probably won’t happen and we eventually won’t care because one of them will lose.

Everyone wants to see Beterbiev and Bivol. Reality is that it probably won’t happen and we eventually won’t care.

Thats been the big fight everyone wanted to see at 175 since Sergey Kovalev and Adonis Stevenson faded into irrelevancy. They did so without fighting each other, another storyline that never advanced.

Did you think Golovkin and Canelo had unfinished business at 160? They’ll never settle it. Another storyline that never advanced.

Did you wonder what those two could do against Demtrius Andrade and Jermall Charlo? Those are two undefeated champions who have fought in and around the same weight class as Golovkin and Canelo forever.

Canelo and Golovkin will never fight Charlo or Andrade.

Charlo and Andrade even have a rivalry storyline that’ll never advance. They both have titles and are undefeated. They don’t seem to like each other. They’ve been fighting at 154 and 160 forever.

They’ll never fight.

A fight between Errol Spence and Terence Crawford would the biggest storyline in the weight division since Pacquiao-Mayweather. It’ll never happen. That storyline will eventually die and we won’t care.

Mikey Garcia and Vasyl Lomachenko was the fight that made everyone excited at 135.

Another storyline that never advanced. No one cares about that fight anymore.

Lomachenko eventually lost to Teofimo Lopez in a unification fight. Now everyone wants to see Lopez face Devin Haney to unify the WBC belts.

It’ll never happen.

When’s the last time two featherweight rivals actually went at it and advanced a storyline?

Leo Santa Cruz and Carl Frampton came close to doing so but that series finished 1-1 and the storyline didn’t advance. The storyline eventually died and no one cares now.

Bantamweight? Hahahaha.

The guy who lost to Inoue is getting shots at both of the other versions of the bantamweight title before Inoue is. The Inoue-Nery storyline dried up and died before it even started.

At super flyweight, where everyone seems to fight everyone, we’ve only unified one set of titles! You have two champions who will float around, build giant records never unify with Estrada. Don’t forget Donnie Nietes is still out there and he hasn’t lost since 2004.

Even Estrada has unfinished business with Sor Rung Visai! That rivalry is 1-1. They’ll probably never fight again.

Don’t even get me started on 105-112, which probably hasn’t advanced a boxing storyline since the Ricardo Lopez days.

it’s very frustrating to watch.

I did it for the Rock. Nash out.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I did it for the Rock. Nash out.

It should have been Kurt Angle. He debuted the night Austin got hit and was Champion by the time Austin got back. WWF dropped the ball on that one.

[LeOoze]

Please unban, Sr. He was a great poster, even while trolling.

exactly LarryX.... please unban him

[PRINCEKOOL]

People have been complaining about fighters wanting rematches. So how do you expect story lines to advance?

Wilder vs Fury advanced, only for Wilder's complete refusal to disappear. It was Deontay Wilder who made that rivalry and story line advance.

Anthony Joshua vs Usyk is another story line which is advancing. But most of this forum and boxing fans in general, did not want to see the rematch happen.

They would of rather Joshua disappear or sit in a corner of a room.

Kambosos Junior vs Devin Haney is a story line which is advancing, and it is advancing because those fighters are naturally instinctively competing.

I honestly think fighters and promoters should do whatever they want to do. Because a large majority of boxing fans, are highly influenced by social media and computer games.

And they think reality operates in the same fashion. Professional boxing is not one of these computers games that you have all been playing 'It is not Mortal Kombat'.

Once one fighter is beaten, that is not always the final conclusion of the battle.

Note: Fury vs Usyk, there is no story line there. Fury is retired.

[brettWall]

You're fooling yourselves if you think fans have this special power to influence which fights are made. Fights are made based on promoters' business practices, fighters' monetary demands, risk assessments, physical, financial, you name it, and it's not based on what fans want. Seems ****** to assume so.

[ELPacman]

Brah, this is unfortunately boxing. As a fan, you need to accept the fact that fights you want to see, epic dream bouts that can actually be made while the guys are young and hungry don't happen. You can call it politics, but it is also the change of how boxing is these days compared to the past. Back in them old days, the best had to fight each other more often. Whether less belts around or that they needed to get paid more. Now you can have a mediocre fight and make millions. Why risk it against better competition? At this point, boxing kind of shot itself in the foot and is its own downfall.

I've come to make terms that I'm a boxing fan for life but I don't expect to hardly ever see the fights I want to see, at least not until they're signed and we have a fight date made. There is just waaaay too much that can derail a super fight from being made these days.