Comments Thread For: Oscar De La Hoya isn?t wrong: ?Boxing right now is thriving?

[BoxingUpdates]

From the start, the May 2 card headlined by Ryan Garcia-Rolando ?Rolly? Romero in New York?s Times Square was both an ambitious and ambiguous one.
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[wrecksracer]

I used to watch boxing on a weekly basis. Now it's more like once a month at best. It's the quality. The talent pool isn't as deep. The fighters aren't willing to face top opposition. Yes, boxing is a business, but if you take away the "sport" part, I'm not watching. Today's fighters think they are making public appearances to their adoring fans. I want to see a real fight.

[CubanGuyNYC]

I used to watch boxing on a weekly basis. Now it's more like once a month at best. It's the quality. The talent pool isn't as deep. The fighters aren't willing to face top opposition. Yes, boxing is a business, but if you take away the "sport" part, I'm not watching. Today's fighters think they are making public appearances to their adoring fans. I want to see a real fight.

As time goes on, the talent pool dwindles for various reasons. Boxing is a poor man’s sport. The world is becoming more affluent all the time. Less young men view boxing as a way out of poverty. And, of course, the less popular something becomes, the less popular it becomes. An electrifying presence in the sport would help, but there’s currently no one like that.

[Lefty0616]

The thing that this promotion team overlooked is, the weather may not be all that nice this early in NYC in May. As the sun goes down, there's a good chance that it will get chilly out.

[pad]

Boxing has definitely changed, nobody who loves the sport can deny that. My personal belief is has changed badly. I'm not a fan of fighters and managers refusing to accept when they come out the wrong side of a fight. It's disgusting to see a fighter try to change the fundamental reasons why they lost. Yanks do seem to be the poorest of losers. I don't watch as much as I use to now but like an above comment said, we just don't have the boxing your way out of poverty like years gone by.

[Smash]

“Collectively, we thought, why not Times Square? Why not outdoors and free for the public, where everyone can watch. It’s the media capital of the world. It was about time. So Golden Boy, Turki came together and we made it happen.”

lol

hilarious u mean turkis cash made the event happen would oscar do a big event with i dont think any gate receipts from it?

oscar should be grateful & so should jeff bezos as oscar apparently is single handedly keeping profit margins well up on the amazon kitchen wares section of the site