Comments Thread For: Ink and you?ll miss it: How boxing journalism has changed

[BoxingUpdates]

Eric Raskin examines how and why the boxing journalism world of 2025 bears little resemblance to the boxing journalism world he first encountered in 1997.
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[OnePunch]

You can count on a couple of fingers the number of REAL boxing writers that still exist. The rest are either internet fanboys or "writers" who are so terrified of a promoter yanking their credentials that they never write a critical word..........

[landotter]

I do not miss sports being so far behind that even well written, well researched articles were fairly dated at publishing.

I do miss well written, well researched articles. Our instant reaction, forget it 15 minutes later culture has made that type of journalism harder to find and far less profitable.

[landotter]

You can count on a couple of fingers the number of REAL boxing writers that still exist. The rest are either internet fanboys or "writers" who are so terrified of a promoter yanking their credentials that they never write a critical word..........

Yeah.... It blows chunks. I do not mind the poorly handled fight night commentary. I can mute that and just enjoy the fight while listening to something else. But the prefight and post fight analysis, the coverage in the days after? That is where the shrilling to keep the job is obvious. I guess you do what you have to do to keep the paychecks rolling, but Mr. Raskin's analogy to pro wrestling commentary is spot on.

[57Blues]

i liked that article, i enjoyed when him and his partner did a podcast ........was solid and light at the same time. Here is the thing and maybe it is only me but coverage of Boxing was spare in print as far as newspapers go, there was Fat Dan on USA - today that i would read in the A.M. on the way to the job site and numerous Boxing mags K O and the like sure Ring i am leaving a few out. Wait a minute here is the thing...... I find it hard to read the same number of pages on line as opposed to in Ring Mag or any other paper product of the past. Don't know if others are the same but many comments on articles seem to be a scan of the topic at best, not that there is anything wrong with that.
Great read good insight keep on pecking buddy......

[Bennyleonard99]

I like the work of www.ringobserver.com and the old interviews of Greg Leon at boxing talk. Raskin does some nice work. Hauser too but he has agendas. A lot of rubbish out there but then again the sport is at a low point now and not many bright lights outside of Usyk, Crawford, Inoue, Pacquiao, Beterbiev, Bivol, Alimkhanuly. The boxing media really failed by allowing Mayweather and Haymon to ruin the sport in America.

[Bob]

Boxing journalism today,
90% bait for clicks with endless repetitive articles. I miss reading boxing magazines from bitd written seriously about mostly the fights pre interwebs.
Today it's all Promoters, ducks, he said, she said, politics.... Like who cares, we just want to read & discuss tge fights.