Is Boxing "In trouble"??

[ramplamp]

Only been a boxing fan since 2013, but I will say that the sport as a whole seems significantly less interesting at the moment. It helped having those Mayweather and Pacquiao cards every year - they always felt like big events. Now it seems like we go months and months at a time with very little excitement. Boxing is never going to "die" but we're in a serious lull which I hope won't last too long.

[RENE JUNIOR]

I don’t know if it’s in real trouble. Boxing has been a niche sport for decades. I don’t think boxing will ever be a front page sport again.

Very true, a niche sport for a very long time and I think it will stay that way.
It's also a sad truth that it won't be a front page sport again.
I think it has to do with what I previously-mentioned in response to comment, that we are simply in a different era and times. It is what it is.

[RENE JUNIOR]

Only been a boxing fan since 2013, but I will say that the sport as a whole seems significantly less interesting at the moment. It helped having those Mayweather and Pacquiao cards every year - they always felt like big events. Now it seems like we go months and months at a time with very little excitement. Boxing is never going to "die" but we're in a serious lull which I hope won't last too long.

I feel your point.
But, I think Boxing as of late has been QUITE interesting with great fights.
I mean, the more one gets to know the amount of talent out there, makes the sport a lot more interesting rather than just focusing on 'big names'.
2021 was a fantastic year for the sport, and what is being heard as of now for the current year, looks like we will have a great first quarter for 2022.
We'll see though.

[Haka]

It is a international sport so the infrastructure is there worldwide for it to never die out. Also it is easy to participate, you only need a pair of boxing glove and you can even do alot of things without it. And there is the appeal of proper hand to hand combat.

So no... it will never die out. The only people holding the sport back are the promoters but other then that I dont care for boxing being a fringe sport with not as much exposure as for ex. soccer/basketbal or other g*y sports.

[El_Mero]

Boxing has been in trouble for a long time. It WAS the sport in the U.S. and now its a niche sport, rarely talked about due to too many belts, promoters blocking big fights and fighters demanding exorbitant amounts of money to fight WHO THEY SHOULD BE FIGHTING. Wide world of Sports was one of the best things going back in the day. Espn fnf, USA channel's fight nights and HBo/Showtime came after and did a good enough job to get people talking but at this point its talked about less imo. The apps arent good enough and pbc never made the fights they could have. The U.S. shouldve regulated boxing back when Reid and McCain put upntheir joint bill to create 1 authority. That wouldve created a commission/authority to something similar to how the ufc kind of is. I remember McCain saying 1 belt per weight class. Even til this day the U.S. is the Captiol when it comes to boxing......

I Grew up with fam having boxing parties/get togethers damn near every month and followed suit as i bought my houses. I used to have BIG parties for ppvs. Sh.it I havent had one in damn near 10 years. Its a shame tbh. I grew up with 2 uncles that were champs back in the late 80s and early 90s and even they same the same thing, there just isnt great fights being made to garner the audience as of now.

One could only wish

[Marchegiano]

Not even God could kill boxing and that fool tried for 1,500 years

[Earl-Hickey]

No I don't think so.

I would say boxing in America is in somewhat of a slump, but from a worldwide perspective its doing well.

Promoters not working together continues to be a hinderence but generally the sport is still highly profitable and has maintained participation levels at the grass roots.

[WBC WBA IBF]

There is speculation amongst the boxing community in general, some say that finances are tight in the sport of Boxing based partially on PBC putting lame events on PPV in order to recoup financially.

This is a completely false premise and the speculation is ridiculous. Fox and Showtime have both extended with PBC and Inside PBC Boxing just made its return as well.

Fox wants a certain amount of PPVs a year and has found that their marketing muscle can sell a PPV that in previous years may not have sold without that kind of mainstream exposure. Fox also likes that they can replay the PPV on FS1 and FS2 repeatedly and fill a four hour block every time they play it.

[Willow The Wisp]

Interesting breakdown.

Your question on seeing this happen again is in reference to Boxing dying?
Or the other combat sports that you mentioned, BKFC, Triad etc.?

I honestly think that BKFC will be around for a good long while, it is action packed and the best normally fight the best, people flock to that.

Not boxing dying, no. Too embedded to be that susceptible to impasses in the market architecture for any length of time.The free market always finds or invents new distribution avenues. Reference was to an historically fickle public's attraction to newer, fiscally sound but less culturally grounded subsets of prizefighting like the brilliantly marketed MMA; with the popularity of the inclusion of scientific ground game today vs. The competing rise of open rules Standup (Bare-knuckle, Hybrid experiments, and the potential for a generational shift in taste similar to that which drove Catch under, replaced with worked match sports entertainment by 1918, as Boxing went about it's merry way unaffected. Everything except Baseball, American football, Basketball, Football/Soccer, Rugby, Cricket and class sports Tennis and Golf are "niche" sports; But none have ever produced a Muhammad Ali. I think there sports are safe, even as each experience highs and lows.

[Jsmooth9876]

Boxing is a niche sport at this point and has been surpassed by MMA... Younger generation going that way.. But boxing will always be around