Boxing is dead

[BangEM]

There's nothing left in the sport.

Arum and Haymon killed it.

R.I.P

[Real King Kong]

Another boxing is dead thread. It’s definitely ****tier than it’s ever been in my lifetime, I’ll give you that.

[BodyBagz]

Every year boxing dies

[PBR Streetgang]

There's nothing left in the sport.

Arum and Haymon killed it.

R.I.P

Great, just stick in your lane and only comment on Anthony Joshua.

[Lupara]

Boxing won't ever die.

Boxing was born with a black eye

It is what it is

[elfag]

been watching since 1999

initial era was:
lennox lewis and klitschos at heavy.
morales, mab, hamed at the lower weights. corrales, mayweather, casamayor ect in the light weights. DLH, tito, mosley, vargas, winky in welter and jr middle.
hopkins against mostly bums
roy jones against mostly bums but looking amazing doing it
jirov and james toney at middle for a bit there.

then you had the second resurgence at welter with floyd, pac, cotto, mosley, margo, williams, ect.


really the main thing though we had a lot of guys fighting each other.

Now days welter, normally the hot division, has worn thin, crawford is like almost mid 30s now and will never fight spence or move up. 154 just **** the bed. 160 is chit with GGG nearing 40 and canelo left.

heavyweight is a mess.

a lot of talent from 130-140 but those guys refuse to fight each other.


Def the worse era in my 22 years as a fan. Hell i only got interested because i caught morales, mab and hamed fighting on hbo randomly and got me hooked.

[Tatabanya]

Started watching it in the early 70s, and I'm still here on a boxing forum, discussing and sometimes arguing with grown men who could be my sons.

I'll be dead before boxing dies, that's for sure.

[elfag]

how many fighters been hyped and just take years off the sport without fighting anyone but bums?

ward - won super six, beat dawson, then spent like 4 years of his prime absent from the sport only fighting bums, fight kov, wins by ko to the balls and retires

thurman - in his 5 year prime, from 27-32,only had 3 fights. never fought spence or crawford

mikey garcia - in the last 7 years has only fought 7 times, an avg of once a year since 2014. Hes 33 now, its over for him.


the next generation down there at 130-140 are setting up for the same fate. wasting their 20s away. What if DLH, tito, mosley, vargas all just never fought each other and all fought bums? that is what boxing has become

[elfag]

Started watching it in the early 70s, and I'm still here on a boxing forum, discussing and sometimes arguing with grown men who could be my sons.

I'll be dead before boxing dies, that's for sure.

imagine if Ali and Fraizer waited until almost their mid 30s to finally fight and settle who was the best heavyweight. that is boxing today

[Tatabanya]

imagine if Ali and Fraizer waited until almost their mid 30s to finally fight and settle who was the best heavyweight. that is boxing today

Right.

But don't forget, the fragmentation of titles started decades ago. When IBF came out in 1983 or so, it already looked like the end, after WBA and WBC had started to separate the rankings.

What I'm trying to say is, enjoy the fighters. At the end of the day, we can still see good, sometimes great fights, even if they do not match the best vs the best.

One must adapt to the era we live in. Not only in boxing, unfortunately.