The fickleness of boxing fans / AJ can’t sell out o2

[Mr Giggles]

He’s fighting some nobody called Jermaines Franklin, ain’t nobody paying to see this rubbish

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

But…he did stop Chisora though. Twice.

WTF was he talking about.

[WillieWild114]

AJ lost a lot of fans due to his racism & embarrassing antics after losing to Usyk the second time.

When was he racist ?

[Boxing 112]

When was he racist ?

They say he is racist cause of his speech during the *** protests

[MONGOOSE66]

Crazy to think just a couple of years ago, AJ could sell out 90,000 tickets in the national stadium in super quick time

Now he’s fighting in a 20,000 seat arena, tickets are on sale and still thousands left that you can just buy easily.

It’s a crazy drop off in popularity, just because of a few losses, 2 of them on points to one of the elite fighters in this era.

Are there any other sports where fans of a team or athlete are so fickle? I think boxing takes the cake in that respect. I guess it’s what happens when you’ve been hyped up and marketed to a casual fanbase by a corporation.

it’s hard to remember such a quick decline in popularity though. From selling out stadiums in hours to not being able to sell venues way smaller.


No wonder Eddie Hearn is looking older and getting more bitter by the day

This happens cause most fans are d1.ck riders. They have no life so they live others peoples lives as their own. Its sad and pathetic at the same time.

[PRINCEKOOL]

But…he did stop Chisora though. Twice.

Fury has never decked Chisora, or knocked him out. Chisora even in the state he was vs Fury III 'Would of mostly likely survived the full 12 rounds, without the referee intervening'.

Overall I don't think Fury's performances vs Whtyte or Chisora were impressive. There are multiple heavyweights who would beat the versions of those two fighters more impressively.

But I am aware that a trait of Fury's 'Is that he had a tendency to fight to the level of his opponent'.

[_Rexy_]

Fury has never decked Chisora, or knocked him out. Chisora even in the state he was vs Fury III 'Would of mostly likely survived the full 12 rounds, without the referee intervening'.

Overall I don't think Fury's performances vs Whtyte or Chisora were impressive. There are multiple heavyweights who would beat the versions of those two fighters more impressively.

But I am aware that a trait of Fury's 'Is that he had a tendency to fight to the level of his opponent'.

He stopped Chisora twice, and won every round in the process. he also won every round against Whyte and knocked him out cold.

stoppage is a stoppage.

[Willy Wanker]

The Eddie remark that I thought was "actually" racist was when he was complaining about not being able to pouch PBC guys (Spence and Charlo I think it was) and he said "They don't care about legacy, they just want to fight once a year so they can buy some gold chains" or some **** like that

[Zelda]

Crazy to think just a couple of years ago, AJ could sell out 90,000 tickets in the national stadium in super quick time

Now he’s fighting in a 20,000 seat arena, tickets are on sale and still thousands left that you can just buy easily.

It’s a crazy drop off in popularity, just because of a few losses, 2 of them on points to one of the elite fighters in this era.

Are there any other sports where fans of a team or athlete are so fickle? I think boxing takes the cake in that respect. I guess it’s what happens when you’ve been hyped up and marketed to a casual fanbase by a corporation.

it’s hard to remember such a quick decline in popularity though. From selling out stadiums in hours to not being able to sell venues way smaller.


No wonder Eddie Hearn is looking older and getting more bitter by the day

Sure, Joshua has lost the hype because he is no longer considered THE elite fighter from Britain (something now gone to Fury while Joyce might have picked a few fans himself), but the main reason for slow ticket sales would be because of the nobody opponent. It is not a competitive fight at all. Why waste money in such economic conditions on such a mismatch?

He will still fill the stadium if he were fighting Wilder or Whyte or Dubois or Joyce.

[elfag]

boxing as a whole has fallen off big time, PPV sales are way down

even canelo is under 1 million these days.

its only going to get worse as the recession is only just starting, people aint paying money for that chit anymore.


The promoters have gone ******ed, they think terrance crawford vs some random bum should be a PPV.... and they make the fight on short notice and dont PROMOTE it which is their job.


back in the day, when HBO and showtime were there, they promoted the upcoming PPV fights during the "Free" fights. Also if you look at say DLH-Forbes, they were smart with it, they knew Forbes was a bum and it was a stay busy fight, so they put it on "free" HBO no PPV and it served as a marketing tool for his next big fight, that is what the dumb asses should have done with Crawford, with Joshua, when they fight a bum, it needs to be on "free" ESPN to promote the next PPV worthy fight.