This sport is DEAD

[Pigeons]

Haymon started it, HBO ended it.

[WBC WBA IBF]

No, not to the extent it has been since Haymon and pbc has entered the game. But do tell me what you think is the reason for the sports current state..

HBO and Showtime dominated US boxing for decades and only worked together twice (one of which was a Haymon event btw).

As annoying as two sides of the streets were, it's the way it always was and fans were used to it.

But now we have three sides of the street (Fox/Showtime, ESPN, DAZN). So instead of getting most of the fights we want and a few not happening due to street sides, now most of the fights we want don't happen and we get a few when guys are on the same side of the street.

Showtime is Showtime as always. ESPN replaced HBO. But now there's also DAZN, so fewer big fights are happening in the "three street era" than happened under the old two street model.

[Sheikh]

What's sad is when people are on the same street fights still don't happen. Think of davis vs russel, charlo vs benvenidez, ggg vs munguia or Andrade. Haney vs Ryan G. These guys have no guts at all

[jqSide]

What's sad is when people are on the same street fights still don't happen. Think of davis vs russel, charlo vs benvenidez, ggg vs munguia or Andrade. Haney vs Ryan G. These guys have no guts at all

That's true. Fighters being on the same street don't always guarantee fights will get made.

[jqSide]

Errol Spence is fighting once a year, holding up the division and he doesn't even give a F.

[moochi]

Yep I barely watch fights anymore as I know the outcome....

Every "opponent" seems to have some sort of a title yet never heard of them.

The real boxing fights are starting to feel like they are a big Fantasy Fight as they only seem to happen once every couple years or so.

[moochi]

This is the Mayweather legacy whether we like to accept or not... Clenelo was next... where you just rob and cherry pick your way thru and don't worry about the ppl who really see it.

[davef]

Huge fan of Floyd while he was fighting but you would be a liar to deny his approach in the later years of his career to choose his own contract and conditions along with Haymons insistence on protecting his stable have changed the landscape of boxing

Everyone of these fighters want to be Floyd now

Also to add there's hardly any characters in boxing anymore espeically crazy ppl like iron Mike and mayorga etc

[removed]

Boxing is indeed dead, and boxingscene.com sucks since the "upgrade"

We're in dark times

[Bullrider]

Any hope of seeing fighters becoming more active this year? Most of them probably need tuneups for their come back fights.