This is why boxing is dying

[TheProudLunatic]

Fughin smartass
Lmfao

Boxing is like the stock market

[MulaKO]

Boxing is like the stock market

Yup totally agree
It's all about fluctuations

[Al Faz]

Then why can’t boxing stay on tv anymore and everyone is running to the saudis to save them?

Lol ignorant comment - Sports are moving to streaming - in 10 years all sports will be gone from TV. Do you think F1 is no longer popular because its now streaming? Amazong, Netlix.Apple etc are already where. NFL, WWE, MLB etc are going.

[TheProudLunatic]

This controversy could be the best thing to happen to LRJ.
More hype
More interest
More money

[TMLT87]

Oh look another boxing is dying post and yet Dana white is launching a boxing league with Turki

I'm not sure that in itself is a great sign really. A rich Saudi has almost completely taken over the sport to the point where the majority of major fights take place in that backwater now, and an MMA promoter who is the CEO of a promotion that 20 years ago was like 5 cards a year in Alabama and Arkansas is gonna be partnering up with him to potentially become the top promoter in the sport.

Having said that, I dont think boxing is "dying", there are always going to be plenty of people that wanna watch people punching each other in the face at a high level.

[famicommander]

This controversy could be the best thing to happen to LRJ.
More hype
More interest
More money

Pretty sure he'd rather have the win and the WBA lightweight title.

[IceTrayDaGang]

somebody said tank shoulda just kept fighting mexicans LOL..

[Willow The Wisp]

For decades, Boxing was one of the big three sports in the United States alongside Baseball and Horse racing.
Outside of the U.S., It was the largest professional spectator sport by far, for most of the time that those have existed.

Combat Sports fans are in awe when a televised PPV event breaks 1.5 million viewers today, but in the 1970s, Ali fights would routinely reach 1 billion!

From that perspective, Boxing has certainly shrunk in societal attention. But that's due to a vast increase in entertainment choices. Not Boxing's health.

https://bigrightboxing.com/is-boxing-a-dying-sport/

I hate to even bother with threads that begin with erroneously assuming Boxing's demise. But all was explained when it was noticed that the thread starter was named "Fruit".

[The Big Dunn]

Lamont Roach lost out on a career defining victory all because a corrupt ref allowed tank to take a knee, get his face wiped off by his trainer and not rule it a knockdown

and you wonder why PBC has been kicked off of every network they been on

You sure? Very weird perspective

That was a great fight that many people will want to see a rematch.

Yes, the ref blew it and cost Roach a title. The controversy made big news that will make the rematch even bigger.

I do not think this hurt the sport as much as it did the reputation of Tank and that of a good ref that made a really bad mistake.

Roach definitely came out of this elevated.

[Grandma Lover]

Feel bad for the 10 people who bought that crap