Is boxing ever going to get back to NETWORK TV??

**MANGLER** · 10-07-2009, 01:09 AM

Not anytime soon.

**ThePunchingBag** · 10-07-2009, 01:11 AM

There is a lot of free fights on ESPN and Telefutura among others.. I don't know what you're talking about.. Boxing lost popularity because the Heavyweight division is dead.. It needs another Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Muhammed Ali type fighters. The lower weight divisions can't do it all by themselves..

**$partacus** · 10-07-2009, 01:12 AM

Boxing goes where the money is, sadly that's PPV at the moment.

**ThePunchingBag** · 10-07-2009, 01:18 AM

All the good athletes are going to higher paid "safer" sports like football and Basketball. A few decades ago those same athletes would've been going into boxing. Some of those athletes could have been the next Tyson, Ali, Foreman, Frazier, SRR, Lewis, Holyfield and the like. So the stable for good charismatic fighters has shortened considerably.

**josenoway** · 10-07-2009, 01:25 AM

i doubt it. the networks see way too much money in the nfl/nba/mlb/etc. Heck, they'd rather cover golf than boxing. There's just too much money in those other sports.

**Bushidō** · 10-07-2009, 01:25 AM

theres channel on comcast that plays old fights. They put some showtime fights on there too

**Cyse** · 10-07-2009, 01:39 AM

To answer your question, NO!

Network TV?... theres no money in it. Sure you get exposure... but u dont get money!

Everyone wants money! SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**mrpain81** · 10-07-2009, 01:42 AM

Richard Schaefer said he would have Boxing on Network TV within a year, I believe he's the guy to do it because he knows how to line up those sponsors.

**Animalistic 5.0** · 10-07-2009, 02:43 AM

No, I doubt we will see big time boxing on network tv like the good old days.

Is boxing ever going to get back to NETWORK TV??