Comments Thread For: Mikaela Mayer calls on networks and promoters to work to grow women's boxing

[BoxingUpdates]

Mikaela Mayer has urged networks and promoters to do more to help grow women's boxing. The 34-year-old is one of the sport's most established stars and tops the bill at the Madison Square Garden Theater on Friday in a grudge match with bitter rival and WBO welterweight champion Sandy Ryan.
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[Chaos]

Sorry but no one's interested in chick sports.

[sidefx996]

It's about asses in the seats. Period. I just don't get what's so hard to understand about that. If you don't put asses in the seats, you're not going to get paid/get promoted/get endorsements/get advertisers throwing money at you like other people who do. It actually has NOTHING to do with being a man or a woman. Rhonda Rousey was the highest paid athlete in the UFC. I can think of several professions off the top of my head where women get paid more than men. If 10x as many people want to pay their hard earned money to see Canelo or Usyk fight vs watching Shields or Mayer fight, the math works itself out pretty easily. Tell me I'm wrong or "help" me to understand otherwise.

[CPNUTKnockoutFreshMart]

Womens boxing isn't going to grow until they start having more dramatic fights , with KO's , TKO's , and swings in momentum from damaging punches. Most womens fights look like sparring. I don't have anything against women boxing , but it's just not all that entertaining to watch.

[Oldskoolg]

Womens boxing isn't going to grow until they start having more dramatic fights , with KO's , TKO's , and swings in momentum from damaging punches. Most womens fights look like sparring. I don't have anything against women boxing , but it's just not all that entertaining to watch.

Perfectly said. This is just the reality of women’s boxing. It’s almost always BORING. It’s the pitty pat punches, it’s women with 8-3 w/ 1 KO type records fighting for titles, it’s 10 rounds with 2 minute rounds and almost always going to a decision. If anything these trainers and coaches are failing these women because they are letting them get away with this weak arm punches and not teaching them to pivot and transfer power into their punches. Women’s pro boxing looks like amateur point based boxing and that’s just not what people want to pay for or watch at home. Want to make more? Produce more drama, end of

[sidefx996]

Perfectly said. This is just the reality of women’s boxing. It’s almost always BORING. It’s the pitty pat punches, it’s women with 8-3 w/ 1 KO type records fighting for titles, it’s 10 rounds with 2 minute rounds and almost always going to a decision. If anything these trainers and coaches are failing these women because they are letting them get away with this weak arm punches and not teaching them to pivot and transfer power into their punches. Women’s pro boxing looks like amateur point based boxing and that’s just not what people want to pay for or watch at home. Want to make more? Produce more drama, end of

And this is why females in MMA and BKFC don't have this problem. The fights are usually just as exciting.

[Throwback714]

The bottom line is that there’s not enough viable professional women boxers. Each division has about three or four decent fighters and that’s it if that. That’s the bottom line

[LAchargers373]

Mayer is almost unlikable

[Buggy bear]

If it does. It attract eyeballs and bums on seats why would networks and promoters lose money putting it on . Mayer needs to ask herself a question would she promote and finance a whole female card ? Er no… because she wouldn’t or could not under write the the losses , so why should networks and experienced promoters lose money to appease her ?

[gauze]

maybe if they boxed topless