Comments Thread For: The eight most depressing boxing stories of this miserable October

[BoxingUpdates]

October is usually loaded with Saturday nights every bit as alright for fighting as any other month. Until this year. October 2025 has been a pacifist?s dream, writes Eric Raskin
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[landotter]

I am so neutral on this "UFC-Ali" controversy. Do I understand that it could be bad? Sure. Of course I do. But I have seen what boxing is and what it is becoming on it's own and it is ugly. Maybe a bad change will be better than no change at all.

[Coverdale]

I am so neutral on this "UFC-Ali" controversy. Do I understand that it could be bad? Sure. Of course I do. But I have seen what boxing is and what it is becoming on it's own and it is ugly. Maybe a bad change will be better than no change at all.

Agreed. Raskin doesn't seem to see the irony in lamenting the "rich and powerful get[ting] their way" when in a boxing context that's exactly what allows superstars like Canelo to avoid fights that we want to see.

The current structure is broken and the established promoters circling the wagons are protecting their own interests and presenting it as altruism. They have had decades to work in the interests of the sport, instead we've been forced to tolerate the "marination" era and the endless proliferation of sanctioning body belts.

I'm ready to see someone try something new. I am not interested in the individual personalities of the promoters, they're all tedious middle aged male egotists.

[ShoulderRoll]

Boxing feels pretty dead right now.

[Boro]

Turki has gutted the sport, it seemed like a good thing when he first arrived in it.

We got regular GOOD ASS fights, now they're few and far between.

And every single fighter is seemingly waiting to be on the cards, so basically anything in between a Riyadh show is dead...

[wrecksracer]

Boxing feels pretty dead right now.

Yeah, I'd like one boxing writer admit this has been the worst year for boxing in history. Anybody who has followed the sport knows it.

[Hardrighthand2]

#9. Yet another article on this site, pushing an hof induction for moneygolovokin. Ok, the higher ups ordered this assault and every other article is about this garbage. 23 or whatever defenses against Howard Eastman level opponents isn’t hof worthy, it’s an embarrassment. Give it a break.

[drablj]

#9. Yet another article on this site, pushing an hof induction for moneygolovokin. Ok, the higher ups ordered this assault and every other article is about this garbage. 23 or whatever defenses against Howard Eastman level opponents isn’t hof worthy, it’s an embarrassment. Give it a break.

there's no such thing as hall of fame worthy. there are no requirements. boxer just have to be top 3 on the ballot that year. vast majority of fans complain but have never seen the ballot. there aren't 40 all time greats on the ballot waiting. who are your 3 picks for this year's ballot? voters overlooked chitalada, gamez, benn, eubank and arce for many years. they inducted pazienza and not them. that tells me they plan to never vote them in. well who else is better than golovkin?