Comments Thread For: How can USA Boxing get back to the glory days of old?

[BoxingUpdates]

?We brought in a third-party coach to interview our boxers, our coaches, our staff, and see how we could better prepare our boxers,? says USA Boxing Executive Director Mike McAtee.
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[solidman]

Life is too easy these days in america. Guys can choose which sport they want to go into and nobody fancies getting punched.

[solidman]

google AI says that boxingusa has 22,000 registered amateur boxers

doesnt sound too bad to me

That is nowhere near enough. America is a massive place.

[rickJen]

Boxing has become a glorified business more than ever. I see no solution to it ever becoming great again.
It's full of snakes and bloodsuckers, as Slow Eddie puts it. One solution maybe is to reduce the size of the ring.
That may not solve the problem, but at least it would minimize running and bloodsuckers would be forced to fight

[ODLH Chicano Goat]

Its time to stop testing these fighters for PED's. They're all on it. And the ones that aren't dropping g dirty for it are jumping through a million hoops just to cover it up. No point in testing anymore.

[TelMex]

Doesn't help that there are multiple sanctioning bodies with multiple belts per weight division. Make things confusing as hell for someone not familiar with the sport. Also, the fact there's no structure to who's fighting who. Most sports have some type of bracket system leading to a single champion for the season.

[tomhawq]

I don't know of any modern solution to this.

By modern I mean average person in the street got tons of options he can focus his mind on at a given moment. He's typically looking at his cellphone every five minutes. He also got tons of entertainment to choose from not only other sports but media content with any category he sets his mind on, movies, vlogs, places to discover, food, etc. If he still has cable tv, he's got hundreds of channels to choose from just the basic account alone... Boxing has become as niche as ever.