Comments Thread For: Boxing in the 21st Century: The First Decade

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By Patrick Kehoe - On January 2, 2000, the Muhammad Ali Boxing Reform Act was passed into US law as an updated reversion of the 1996 Professional Boxing Safety Act. Call it political incrementalism, postured symbolism or a necessary step toward responsible regulatory oversight of professional boxing within the United States of America, the tide of optimism engendered corresponded to the investigative assertions being detailed, mainly by web-based boxing writers, at the dawning of this millennium. [Click Here To Read More]

[P.WILL]

The 2010's will be my decade for boxing since I just started watching about 2 years ago.

[GoogleMe]

The 2010's will be my decade for boxing since I just started watching about 2 years ago.

The 2010's are looking very promising.

[Tiozzo]

Good article. Montreal, Mecca of boxing

[razor.thin]

The 2010's will be my decade for boxing since I just started watching about 2 years ago.

so why do you have a picture of a fight from 1997 in your sig.

[Tiozzo]

so why do you have a picture of a fight from 1997 in your sig.

Let me explain since the question is so ****** and I, too, am a new fan to boxing (4 years). Pretty simple : you can't have true interest in boxing without taking a profound look at its history. Do you need to be 88 years old to have a picture of Ezzard Charles vs Walcott in your sig ? Do you need to be 88 years old for having seen that fight ? I can't believe I need to explain this.

[diamonddale]

Time magazine reported this was the worst decade in history. For heavyweight boxing that is very true. But for the sport as a whole. Boxing emerged from the 1990's wich was deffinately the worst era in boxing history. An era where big names fought nobody's on ppv and networks and promoters constricted themselves to a point where it was nearly impossible to follow the sport. This is the generation of the internet and youtube. You can find boxing if your looking for it. And thankfully we have sites like this and stories like that.

[F l i c k e r]

Boxing is practically impossible to follow as a casual viewer. You can't flip through channels and see a boxing match occuring. Only boxing fans know when a boxing fight is gonna happen, and even then its 98% of the time on PPV.

Ask the guy at your local donut shop; "Did you watch Pinoy Power 2?" They wont know what the fuc.k your talking about. Pacquiao-Cotto type fights dont happen all the time. Until promoters start showing quality boxing matches on primetime television, it wont be a great year for boxing.

[diamonddale]

Very true. On a canadian standpoint I don't have to drive across the border to watch showtime anymore.

[P.WILL]

Let me explain since the question is so ****** and I, too, am a new fan to boxing (4 years). Pretty simple : you can't have true interest in boxing without taking a profound look at its history. Do you need to be 88 years old to have a picture of Ezzard Charles vs Walcott in your sig ? Do you need to be 88 years old for having seen that fight ? I can't believe I need to explain this.

that you very much