Comments Thread For: Anthony Crolla explains why British boxing is in a ?major crisis?

[BoxingUpdates]

Anthony Crolla, former lightweight beltholder and now burgeoning British trainer, has expressed his concern about the health of boxing in the UK
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[Goatintheboat]

Crolla was right but the recent Usyk and Canelo fights had poor cards which should have been the best ever.

[Nash out]

This all happened when Eddie Hearn left Sky. There used to be 3 good fight nights a month, now there might be 1 every 3 months, in the UK. Nash out - His Majesty

[SteveM]

beterbiev vs nicholson an appealing main event?
Nope!

[Jamesboxing]

He’s right tbh. There use to be fight night cards in the Uk seemingly every week and now it’s totally dwindled. Boxxer on sky was a disaster because the quality was so bad and Eddie seems to just be mostly putting his shows focused in other markets abroad.. the last 3 years or so the Uk cards haven’t been great at all

[Coverdale]

I'm failing to see the correlation between small hall shows and Turki's cards. If the fights he's put on undercards had been staged as independent headliners, most would not have been in small halls.

I'm failing to see the problem. Fighters are getting paid more and the fights are actually happening rather than being talked about.

[Buggy bear]

I have been saying it for ages , boxing is in decline , it’s unfortunate but true , the money is not there a ymore in the uk networks which is why more cheap female fights are being put on ( a trend among among all sports and networks) and female fights are simply not appealing to fight fans and when they switch off from watching them a part of there willingness for the next show goes with them and you lose eyeballs .. and of course past saudi over paying and now they know the business and taken the cream they need to recoup what they have overspent .. no cream leaves what’s left to small halls and cheap tv which leads to fighters getting an even smaller return for their blood sweat and tears .. would not advise my kids to box professionally, risk and reward is simply not worth it anymore .

[Smash]

if million dolla says it it must be true