Boxing is so dead

[BodyBagz]

You should see the circus from yesterday youtubers fights and see how this sport took a nose dive. Promoted by DAZN and the O2 was packed. This generation is so ******.

Most of those MMA/UFC guys are just as sloppy.

Wild kicking and rolling around on the mat.
Missing 90% of the ''punches''
Melt as soon as a ''pinch'' lands

People make fun of Khan's chin

[Madison Boxing]

Lol its not that bad. We just had AJ/Usyk, next month we're getting Canelo/GGG 3, Ruiz/Ortiz and Shields/Marshall, the month after Wilder is back in a decent fight plus Haney/Kambosos 2. Fingers crossed (dont hold your breath though) we MIGHT get Fury/Usyk, Spence/Crawford, another AJ fight etc before the year is out too.



I'm not really seeing how the analogy applies there. Hes talking about the popularity of fighters....

Following the UFC legally if you're American is much more expensive than following boxing too.

i mean that list of fights says it all lol, when ruiz/ortiz and haney/kambosis 2 are considered fights to look forward to,well......

[TMLT87]

Most of those MMA/UFC guys are just as sloppy.

Wild kicking and rolling around on the mat.
Missing 90% of the ''punches''
Melt as soon as a ''pinch'' lands

People make fun of Khan's chin

Of course boxing looks less sloppy, its just punching.

i mean that list of fights says it all lol, when ruiz/ortiz and haney/kambosis 2 are considered fights to look forward to,well......

Eh, for a 2 month time period its okay. This is just how boxing is in general, its never really been the norm to get huge fights consistently. The UFC schedule is typically better but they havent exactly been on fire this year either.

[Dakuwaqa]

I dunno

UFC has a lack of depth imo

Feels like the same few guys that fight each other and then rematch a couple of years later

[786]

Not really into UFC, their fans always want to compare it to boxing and tell us that it's much more popular now. It doesn't seem that way to me but I could be wrong because I don't really pay attention to UFC.

I work with this woman who claims her boyfriend is a big boxing fan and when I asked her what he thought of the fight last weekend her exact words were, "He didn't watch it because he wanted to watch UFC instead, he said it was a much bigger fight anyway."

I don't know who was on the UFC card last week but I doubt it was "bigger" than Usyk-AJ 2. Can any of the UFC fans on here make any sense of that?

[BKM-]

First off all combat sports are in a decline in recent years, some more than others.

But boxing more than ever is relying on a few big names, and there aren't that many. It's just the same problems as always that have continued to shrink the sport: fighters ducking eachother, overpriced PPV's, Alphabet titles, amount of stars decreasing, too many weightclasses etc.

MMA has some of the same problems but it does much better when it comes to fans getting the fights they want to see, they got the advantage of the top competitors all competing in the UFC and the smaller orgs still having loyal fanbases. The titles mean something because it's one title and not a weightclass for every couple of pounds. There's much less of a problem with ducking, they even get superfights to happen occasionally.

Now on to opinions, MMA is simply more exciting, more unpredictable and it has wayy more ways a fight can go or finish in exciting fashion. The storylines are better, it's more gripping. Look at last weekend. You had a near unbeatable champ about to even the record for winning streak in the UFC. He's winning the fight untill a HL reel headkick ends the fight out of nowhere. It's full of emotion and shock. It's all over social media, it's alive.

Contrast to the big boxing fight. Yeah AJ was going for a comeback, but the fight was average, nothing amazing really happened. The most memorable moment was AJ's pathetic hissy fit afterwards. And now the fans have to pray for Fury to face Usyk.

Boxing will always be in my heart but MMA has long since surpassed it.

[STREET CLEANER]

If you are a UFC fan and getting the fights you want then enjoy. I simply don't follow it. When they don't get paid a lot of money they are forced to face each other.

[TMLT87]

I don't know who was on the UFC card last week but I doubt it was "bigger" than Usyk-AJ 2. Can any of the UFC fans on here make any sense of that?

In America the UFC card probably did better. Globally AJ/Usyk 2 was much bigger.

[Ricospider]

It's dead. There are no true superstars today. All just a bunch of protected pretenders with fake personalities and no charisma. Fury is the face of the sport and he's the biggest lying phony fake retiring goofball in boxing history. Canelo was protected for a decade. Floyd is still lying ducking and trying to set up more fraud fights. AJ is a big dummy. Crawford is great but no one will dare to fight him. Duck davis? lol he's nothing but a sham puppet. Boxing destroyed itself when mayweather was the face of the sport, all of his fights were rigged set ups against bought opponents looking for that payday.

[james240]

This is absolutely spot on i enjoy boxing much more than UFC but sadly politics have damaged its brand almost beyond repair.

How AJ and Wilder didn't fight at their peaks is literally the only thing that needs to be said perfect matchup for a trilogy literally made for each other yet Wilder went with Fury and AJ went with Ruiz those 2 fights literally ruined both fighters instead of a trilogy boxing was robbed of potentially the most exciting matchup.

You have Spence and Crawford literally the same scenario will probably happen eventually when both fighters are in decline (Pac vs May).

Its why its so refreshing to see fighters like Kambosos literally fighting the best available without bull**** excuses.