Who is killing boxing?

[Nash out]

We need league divisions with promotion and relegation. Each weight division has a Boxing Premier league and a Championship of the best 8 boxers, 2 get relegated, the top 3 from The Championship (second tier) get promoted to Prem and the best two outside of the leagues get promoted to the Championship.

Sparring is massively reduced as boxers are fighting all the time. Each boxer fights their 7 league fixtures over a 2-year period. Any fight they miss is a DQ loss. Nash out - His Majesty. These guys are not fighting enough. Even twice a year is not enough. Fine for TBE Mayweather has he entertained us with All Access and things like that, but we can't compare most guys to TBE. Nash out - His Majesty

[rickJen]

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.

I used to be active as a poster in this site. Probably the same case as others.
I too hardly know the new fighters who are just as inactive, I would guess, as the previous group.
So it's hard to follow boxing now. The sport is mostly presenting random fights with no rhyme or reason to make them.
Of course, there are still leftovers from the previous crop.

[jqSide]

I used to be active as a poster in this site. Probably the same case as others.
I too hardly know the new fighters who are just as inactive, I would guess, as the previous group.
So it's hard to follow boxing now. The sport is mostly presenting random fights with no rhyme or reason to make them.
Of course, there are still leftovers from the previous crop.

And the boxers that decided to be inactive are not even at a retirement age. They're still in their late 20s or early 30s. I don't know man. Like I said it's best to just accept whatever the business side offers to fans. Hoping for best fights best all the time and as early as fans would like would just be having false hopes. So just accept it as it is now.

[El_Mero]

And weak boxers who let their managers and promoters order them around

[LG Motel 22]

Here in Aus boxing is pretty dead compared to UFC which f sucks. Think it’s to do with there being too many broadcasters, people don’t know where they have to tune in, means boxing ain’t in the mainstream. Also what doesn’t help is the wait times between fights, the lack of depths on cards and the lack of star power since mayweather left… Canelo only Recently came to English. Inoue, Crawford, Usyk and Crawford don’t exactly sell their fights in the lead up for the casual fan, as much as we may love em. ALSO the top fighters only f fighting once or twice a year ! It’s hard to get behind them and root for a fighter when he’s barely fighting.

[QueensburyRules]

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

- - Then it's not thriving, it's in a subsistence existence as most of it's history...duh!!!

[Boxing 112]

Biggest problem is the 4 belt organisations, their rankings, enforcing mandatories, and not rating each others champ/interim champs

Second problem is hype from "fans" for match ups that are a waste of time and Fighters not making match ups when they should. Eubank Benn and Bud Canelo are mismatches but they got the hype behind them so will be big commercially and financially. For actual boxing fans and boxing, Canelo should fight Benavidez. Bud has plenty of talent he could face at 154, other champs, Charlo etc. Benn should be fighting at 147 could have fought world title vs Barrios, instead he fights Eubank for the payday loses then says not my weight im going back to 147. Eubank should be fighting someone like Sheeraz or Janibek, or move up to 168 and face people like Berlanga and Plant

[Willow The Wisp]

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

That's simply platform evolution. No relationship to boxing's viewership health. Where were those platforms during the prime of Dempsey, Louis, Ali?
Presentation platforms change. Always.

To be clear; boxing being number 4, behind only Football, Baseball and Basketball; and ahead of Ice Hockey, Golf, Tennis, Soccer, MMA in the US. That's a fact.

https://www.boxingscene.com/forums/b...us-harris-poll

[Willow The Wisp]

Here in Aus boxing is pretty dead compared to UFC which f sucks. Think it’s to do with there being too many broadcasters, people don’t know where they have to tune in, means boxing ain’t in the mainstream. Also what doesn’t help is the wait times between fights, the lack of depths on cards and the lack of star power since mayweather left… Canelo only Recently came to English. Inoue, Crawford, Usyk and Crawford don’t exactly sell their fights in the lead up for the casual fan, as much as we may love em. ALSO the top fighters only f fighting once or twice a year ! It’s hard to get behind them and root for a fighter when he’s barely fighting.

That is all about marketing.

[garfios]

Pbc the sport was promising as hell a couple of years back....we don't care no more and these new guys don't have half the talent of last generation due to them making too much money

I can see it as part of the problem, but the boxers has the final saying.