Do you feel like you’re watching less boxing?

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Say 10-15 years ago, I felt like I had at least one decent card to watch near enough every Saturday. Whether that be a big US card, a UK card or even places like Germany, Canada, Russia etc who all regularly showed championship boxing. Nowadays I feel like I maybe get one good card a month. Anyone else feel like this?

If you go say 10 years back, the biggest fight of that year was May-Pac on May 2nd, yet the weekend after we had Canelo-Kirkland, both Warren and Hearn had UK shows that same weekend, PBC also had a solid card May 9th featuring Burns-Figueroa and McDonnell-Kameda, whilst in Germamy Sturm and Chudinov fought for the WBA 168 title. The following Saturday Gennady Golovkin and Roman Gonzalez both defended their world titles in a HBO doubleheader. The Saturday after had DeGale vs Dirrell for the IBF 168 title and a monster card topped by Povetkin-Perez in Russia. The 30th saw a great triple header from Hearn featuring Linares-Mitchell, Selby-Gradovich and Brook-Gavin and the night before Khan fought Algieri at the Barclays Center.

Compare that to the weeks following the biggest fight of this year in Crawford-Canelo and it’s a stark contrast. Aside from watching Inoue in my hotel room a couple hours after, I haven’t watched another fight live. Why is boxing on so sparingly these days?

[HisExcellency]

Because the Saudi's are stacking their undercards with main event fights which reduces the number of offerings but increases the overall quality of the product.

[Coverdale]

Part of the reason is because of how inactive US fighters are these days. I suppose another part is how motivated you are to actually seek it out and watch it and if you can tolerate lower level fights. edpboxing has something to share most weeks, do you watch much of that?

When I got into boxing around 2001, Sky Sports had boxing on almost every week. Warren and both Maloneys frequently had cards. The landscape has definitely changed, especially with Hearn and Warren effectively becoming international promoters.

[ELPacman]

You need to subscribe to various Youtube smaller promos. They do live cards on YT. Cotto has one. Goldenboy Promotions has one. Most Valuable Promotions. Probox of course. There's one from the DR. Just need to try and find them and subscribe to keep posted when they have new events going on. Though yeah, for bigger higher production events, they are becoming less frequent.

[SouthpawRight]

Because the Saudi's are stacking their undercards with main event fights which reduces the number of offerings but increases the overall quality of the product.

superior format for fans who are hustlers

only retired old guys and those doing Jack sht have the energy and time to catch something every weekend

do not turn boxing into American football with tailgaters who dedicate weekends to spectating rofl

maybe 5 or 6 actives max at a time worth following closely

A major event every 2 to 3 months

[HisExcellency]

superior format for fans who are hustlers

only retired old guys and those doing Jack sht have the energy and time to catch something every weekend

do not turn boxing into American football with tailgaters who dedicate weekends to spectating rofl

maybe 5 or 6 actives max at a time worth following closely

A major event every 2 to 3 months

I tend to agree but do MISS having a decent fight to look forward to every other weekend as the original poster mentioned. For example, Benavidez-Yarde has a couple of cracking undercard fights (Norman-Haney & Noakes-Mason) which could BOTH be main events in their own right. Therefore, the question is, would you like to eat your birthday cake in one night or would you rather keep some to look forward to over the next couple of weekends? I'm not so sure.

[SouthpawRight]

I tend to agree but do MISS having a decent fight to look forward to every other weekend as the original poster mentioned. For example, Benavidez-Yarde has a couple of cracking undercard fights (Norman-Haney & Noakes-Mason) which could BOTH be main events in their own right. Therefore, the question is, would you like to eat your birthday cake in one night or would you rather keep some to look forward to over the next couple of weekends? I'm not so sure.

Allah will give you time machine into the 50s

the Sugar Robinson era where they'd fight twice a month

[DeeMoney]

HBO no longer has boxing, Showtime no longer has boxing, USA Network no longer has boxing, ESPN no longer has regularly scheduled boxing. Most major sports leagues have a unified league to work out a TV deal. Boxing promoters (the closest to leagues we have) still view other promoters as their competition, when in fact their competition is other forms of entertainment. So they fight amongst each other for the scraps being left behind, not realizing that if they unified they could have more. Ergo, we have fewer big and medium sized fights to look forward to.

PS -Dont try to BS twist this into me calling for communism, I am supporting the ideals of competition. Just stating that the powers that be in boxing view the others as a competition, which is a mistake. Its as if the clothing department in a WalMart was competing with the electronic dept within the same WalMart. They backstab and hold back the other department within the same store so that they come out ahead relative to them, not realizing they are making the store worse compared to the Target across the street.

[OnePunch]

Definitely watching less, as it becomes more and more difficult to find good content. No more HBO, Showtime, ESPN Tuesday Night Fights, ESPN Friday Night Fights, Boxeo Telemundo, Telefutura, etc etc.

[LA_2_Vegas]

The big Saudi cards and the new entrants have been bringing me back in after a short hiatus last year. I've been increasing my viewership recently, with most attention going to these new entrants.

I've attended fewer events recently, but I am very optimistic about the future so I know I;ll be back soon.

I get what you're saying though - the main promoters seem to be sitting on their hands until they get new funding? I hope that is happening this quarter. Top Rank being on Facebook is unacceptable.

How I see it:

ProboxTV=SHOBox

OTX= Telefutura, Box Azteca

TKO=says they want to be Tuesday Night Fights

MVP=not as good as Probox, but they have some talent, PBC affiliates