Illegal sites damaging boxing .

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Greedy TV companies and steaming services are doing the most damage. They limit the audience and minimise the sport. They’d rather have 50k paying that 5 million watching. Would never happen in Football, Basketball, Tennis, Golf etc.

Boxing will always remain a insignificant niche sport with this cash grab take the money and run approach.

[PRchamp]

Boxing laid its own bed and they need to stop being so dam greedy. Most of these “big fights” end in boring not exciting 12 round fights due to both fighters being so inactive that the action never picks up until the 5th round.

tired of that I’m risking my life excuse……homie we all risk our lives every day. Getting paid millions of $$$ just to fight 36 minutes against a lower tier fighter who you and your promoter ripped off so you and him can get a huge cut.

[_Rexy_]

Maybe if they didn't charge $75 for cards that wouldn't have even been good Boxing after Dark cards 5 years ago.


If it weren't for the illegal sites, nobody would be watching the ****ing fights.

[Richard]

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tired of that I’m risking my life excuse……homie we all risk our lives every day. Getting paid millions of $$$ just to fight 36 minutes against a lower tier fighter who you and your promoter ripped off so you and him can get a huge cut.

Different game is boxing compared to most sports and even jobs though . There's one thing sitting in a office as opposed to getting punched in the head and body which a fighter puts himself through . I think things are improving medically though eg improved testing on boxers which allows health professionals to see if there fit to fight.

I agree though at times the politics of boxing is sometimes more concerned with business than pairing the best fighters off at respective levels of the fight game. I remember reading about Demetrious Andre I think it was who is a useful operator that carries risk to top fighters but fights in a unentertaining manner and subsequently ticket sales maybe affected and he doesn't always gets the fights his talent is worthy off.

[BoxingParadigm]

The fighters deserve every penny that they can get, and then some...................Rockin'X

I'm not arguing against fighters getting paid fairly, that's not the point I'm trying to make. The issue is that instead of rebalancing the money distribution, everyone wants to take a bigger chunk of the pie at the expense of the sport itself.

I personally wouldn't mind paying per view for every card, for example, if companies offered them at reasonable prices (e.g. the Tzsyu vs Harrison card $5-$10) and they were accessible. I would even pay to stream them on YouTube, f$ck Showtime, DAZN & ESPN subscriptions, plus overpriced PPVs, however, I think a business model like this would not be profitable given how small and niche the boxing fan base is. But making each fight card more and more inaccessible with multiple competing networks & their respective pay walls will only dilute the boxing community further.

[Boxfan83]

Errol Spence (a millionaire Boxing Champ) uses an illegal firestick. Need i say more?

[removed]

I'll pirate whatever the hell i like, and i don't gaf what a multi-millionaire like Wilder thinks about it.

[Brother Mouzone]

Nah what is damaging the sport is fights being PPV that should not be, with ridiculous prices and crap undercards.

[SteveM]

Thats the thing, how do you bring more eyes to the sport, lower the prices so its highly affordable for the lower classes like $10/20 dollars, the lower class happen to be the biggest demographic of fight fans, the price setters are thinking lets ream the champagne crowd and shut the beer drinkers out, they are out of touch to the rules that if you want to bring in crowds you gotta discount, these people setting prices are out of touch to the idea of bringing in more viewers, one does that through price.

I live in the UK - I would go support local boxing IF it meant paying out £15/20 but I am NOT going to travel down to London to see AJ probably blitz Franklin in mid rounds and pay £40/50 + travel + food + drink + probably lodging meaning £200 minimum outlay - money is tight - I'm looking at the best value for my £200 and that kind of fight isn't it. I'd rather not stream but I will if I have to. If boxing got its act together and was organised better and more like MMA then it's bring in a larger viewing audience meaning that terrestial channels would broadcast fights again. Tyson and Holyfield, Hagler and SRL made huge money back in the day so PPV is not the only way if changes were made but it IS the only way if the sport is as ***********al as now

[paulf]

I understand you mean well with your post, OP.

But if you LOVE boxing, you should not support PPVs at all.

UFC gives fans PPVs because they’re STACKED with great fights all day long like a Don King card in the 1980s. Maybe even better.

Boxing, even in massive events like Mayhweather-Pacquiao, puts pure garbage on the card. Intentionally. “we’re already gettin their money with the main event, why spend more to give them a good product?”

PPV is killing the sport dead.