Is boxing now officially BACK?!

[rocky_balboa23]

there is nothing like a great heavyweight fight. When heavyweight boxing is great, you know the other divisions follow

[KillaMane26]

This is boxing.... It's never been consistently satisfying, we look back at the golden days but forget their were BS fights in between those big fights too.

[Toffee]

Great fight. Lots of fun. Yada Yada.

The fight that saved boxing was also the one that highlighted all that is bad about boxing.

We could have had a handful of great fights while we were waiting for this ****show to be finished.

It wasn't the biggest fight in boxing. It actually prevented the biggest fights from being made. Fury and Wilder seemed to generate this myth that boxing stopped for 18 months during COVID. It didn't; Fury and Wilder stopped.

And people seem to be forgetting that it was a dead rubber that went the way of the guy who had dominated the first two fights.

Boxing could be great but you morons keep accepting what you get served!

[PRINCEKOOL]

This is boxing.... It's never been consistently satisfying, we look back at the golden days but forget their were BS fights in between those big fights too.

Good post, I said on another thread.

In football you get 1-0 win's, 2-0 wins, 0-0 draws, 5-4 wins.

In boxing you get, 12 round unanimous decisions, 12 round brutal wars, knock outs, one sided brutal beat downs, 12 round boxing matches.

Boxing has always been this way, at any point in history. There are different styles and variations of fights.

I think reactions like 'Oh boxing is back' are overly dramatic, and kind of insulting to the sport.

You ether like boxing or you don't.

People change from moment to moment, Fury vs Wilder will be history come next week in some people's minds 'If it is not already'.

When there is a 0-0 draw in football, do people cry that football-soccer needs saving? It is just a nonsensical, overly dramatic attitude and culture in society these days.

I watched a review of some kid, watching the rocky movies 'And he stated that he found it difficult to follow, due to their being scenes where Rocky Balboa is just walking down the street'.

There the people sport, movie makers are trying to cater to these days unfortunately.

Is boxing officially back ? 'Boxing never left, fighting is what people, animals, sentient beings do on this planet in one form or another'.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Its having a great few months late in what had been a really bad year up to that point. Almost like there was a backlog of big fights that all got unleashed close to each other to make up for the absence of them in the rest of the year.

Its pretty much always dips and spikes anyway.



Yeah hes only a promoter for the biggest combat sports promotion on the planet by a massive margin.

I bet you’re a massive UFC fan as well aren’t you.

MMA is a very niche sport. It’s probably C-League in all honesty. Dana White is a big fish in a small pond.

[TMLT87]

I bet you’re a massive UFC fan as well aren’t you.

MMA is a very niche sport. It’s probably C-League in all honesty. Dana White is a big fish in a small pond.

You do realise basically every metric you could look at to gauge interest between the two indicates that the UFC is bigger than boxing now...right? its not particularly close either. Even this Fury/Wilder fight was not nearly as big as Mcgregors two fights this year, and Canelo/Plant wont be either.

All combat sports are niche compared to major ball sports. Some boxing fans have an insanely inflated sense of how big modern day boxing is.

[Combat Talk Radio]

Dana White said ‘boxing badly needed this fight’.

Let’s be honest, boxing has been stale and there’s been no buzz for it the last couple years. Ever since fury wilder 2, which was at the very start of the whole pandemic and lockdown and the world changing forever. The pandemic didn’t help and of course people pulling out of big fights too like errol Spence didn’t help either.

But now I’m just buzzing about boxing ever since that fury wilder 3 fight can’t get enough of it now. It feels like we have come full circle and this fight has kick started boxing back to life and also signals the end of the pandemic and life back to normal.

fury Wilder 2, boxing becomes stale, start of the pandemic.
fury Wilder 3, boxing comes back to life, end of the pandemic.

And now we have Stevenson-Herring, canelo plant, Crawford Porter, AJ Usyk 2 all to look forward to.

Boxing didn't need "this" fight.

Boxing needed guys to show NSB and others what a FIGHT is supposed to be like at heavyweight. Meaning, two guys actively trying to hurt one another. Ignore the skill part, it doesn't matter. Skill or no skill, are both guys TRYING to hurt the other?

When you don't have that, boxing suffers.

[KillaCamNZ]

I'm hoping Wilder/Fury 3 kickstarts the sport, but...as long as a YouTuber is Boxing's biggest draw, then there's problems.

We're still going to have issues getting fights made - heck, Fury/Wilder 3 was only made because of contractual obligations. It's going to take a lot of stepping up, a lot of taking influence away from Promoters, and a little luck to get Boxing truly "back". It's simply not as easy to hide these issues anymore - the world knows everything.

[ShoulderRoll]

Canelo had just set an American indoor attendance record in his last fight.

Wilder-Fury 3 wasn't a sellout and I bet the PPV sales will be disappointing when the numbers come out.

[deathofaclown]

Canelo had just set an American indoor attendance record in his last fight.

Wilder-Fury 3 wasn't a sellout and I bet the PPV sales will be disappointing when the numbers come out.

But it still had more crossover mainstream appeal than Canelo fights usually do, worldwide anyway. That trilogy fight on saturday was dominating the news worldwide and on social media.

AJ sells big tickets too but his fights barely register in terms of attention among the general public across the world.

Vegas is a strange place for tickets, The pricing structure prices a lot of ordinary people out, And leaves a lot of empty seats that people with money don’t want.

Floyd versus McGregor had tickets left on the day, But it was the biggest event happening in the world that day.

So you can’t really look at ticket sales and place great significance on it. Fury v Wilder dominated the headlines and was the thing most people were talking about last weekend and that really puts boxing in the spotlight, not selling thousands of tickets for $30.