Who is killing boxing?

[garfios]

Hi guys and gals, I hope all is well. I remember a few years back I'd not schedule any activity on fight night, Tuesday's and Friday's used to be cards on the USA and ESPN channels, not to mention the Sunday's afternoon of Worldwide of Sports, I didn't miss any of them, for the past two or three years I find my self not interested on fights not even involving fighters I like and follow. For me is the lack of real big fights and the alphabet soups not enforcing their own rules, fighters commanding big purses without taking any risk and I think this trend started with Floyd, and for the past four or five years canelo taking it to a new level. What do you guys think?

[Willow The Wisp]

Boxing is thriving. It has business side problems but it always has. The no. 4 most followed sport in the US.

[Joseph]

The quality may be lagging behind the glory days, but we're certainly not bereft of quantity, for better or for worse.

Boxing used to be a buffet; it's more of a soup kitchen these days, but the nuggets are out there.

[brettWall]

Boxing is thriving. It has business side problems but it always has. The no. 4 most followed sport in the US.

Tell that HBO, Showtime, Fox Sports, CBS, NBC, ABC, etc. And ESPN is exiting boxing this year.

[El_Mero]

Belt orgs. They have been for a long while

[ELPacman]

Hi guys and gals, I hope all is well. I remember a few years back I'd not schedule any activity on fight night, Tuesday's and Friday's used to be cards on the USA and ESPN channels, not to mention the Sunday's afternoon of Worldwide of Sports, I didn't miss any of them, for the past two or three years I find my self not interested on fights not even involving fighters I like and follow. For me is the lack of real big fights and the alphabet soups not enforcing their own rules, fighters commanding big purses without taking any risk and I think this trend started with Floyd, and for the past four or five years canelo taking it to a new level. What do you guys think?

Careful with this talking point. I've said it many a times and the Fraud heads come out to say it ain't so.

That said, boxing is cannibalizing itself lately. This past weekend was a perfect example. There were like 5 cards you could tune into at the exact same time taking place. Meanwhile the rest of the week where it's dead, you get nothing. It drives me nuts when you might go a weekend or two with no fights and then the next weekend, just stacked and now you're forced to almost choose which one you want to watch more, or do the annoying flipping back and forth.

Something that was interesting that a buddy pointed out this past weekend. Despite ProBox being a very solid and serious boxing network to tune into for their fights, this past weekend there were more folks watching Miguel Cotto's card live on Youtube than the live ProBox card. That blew my mind. Who the hell even knew Miguel Cotto had his own promotion on Youtube where you could watch them live? lol.

[garfios]

Careful with this talking point. I've said it many a times and the Fraud heads come out to say it ain't so.

That said, boxing is cannibalizing itself lately. This past weekend was a perfect example. There were like 5 cards you could tune into at the exact same time taking place. Meanwhile the rest of the week where it's dead, you get nothing. It drives me nuts when you might go a weekend or two with no fights and then the next weekend, just stacked and now you're forced to almost choose which one you want to watch more, or do the annoying flipping back and forth.

Something that was interesting that a buddy pointed out this past weekend. Despite ProBox being a very solid and serious boxing network to tune into for their fights, this past weekend there were more folks watching Miguel Cotto's card live on Youtube than the live ProBox card. That blew my mind. Who the hell even knew Miguel Cotto had his own promotion on Youtube where you could watch them live? lol.

"cannibalizing", that's true. Going against each other is not good for business either, and nowadays, a boxer builds a little bit of a name and he won face another fighters at his level for years.

[garfios]

Boxing is thriving. It has business side problems but it always has. The no. 4 most followed sport in the US.

I disagreed, boxing is not thriving, super-fights ala Ali-Foreman, Tyson-Holyfield, Leonard-Hearns-Hagler-Duran-Benitez, SRR-Lamotta, Ali-Frazier, Sanchez-Gomez, Gomez-Zarate, Zamora-Zarate, Puas-Arguello, and this fights were headliners, you Have Curry, McCroy, the body-snatcher, jones, and a bunch of other fighters fighting the best available fighter up there, and I went to the eighties and 90's, if I go back further down the almanac is not even comparable, Boxing used to be #1, nothing like a big fight.

[ELPacman]

Boxing is thriving. It has business side problems but it always has. The no. 4 most followed sport in the US.

I think too it depends how you define thriving. Yes, there are a lot of areas to tune in when you consider the live channels on Youtube nowadays that compete with the ESPNs and DAZNs, however a lot of that isn't really casual friendly. It's showcasing a lot of upcoming fighters and when it comes to big fights to tune into, these are dying more and more it seems. Either fighters that have personality are being shelved for too long and you only see them once or twice a year, or the fights just aren't being made that they should be participating in.

So yeah, when you consider like 5 cards this past weekend going on at the same time, you would think, holy hell, aren't in a golden year of boxing again! The fact remains, the fights aren't fights that the casuals are tuning into, hence the low watch count if you check them live on Youtube.

[jqSide]

Boxers not active enough is killing boxing. I for one feel like the boxers I use to follow are slowly disappearing. I barely know the new ones. Time to accept whatever is offered. I watch more of Probox TV now and it doesn't matter who are fighting.