Is Boxing Almost Dead?

[The Fix]

boxing is coming back right now, especially cause hockey is gone.
boxing might not return to being the 1st or second most popular sport but imo it could get back to being a top 7 or 8 sport.

[.::EnRiQuE::.]

Maxboxing sucks anyway. Boxing will always be great as long as Ruiz is champ and people don't use juice to try and steal his belt.

shut up.

[MetalVomit]

Maxboxing sucks anyway. Boxing will always be great as long as Ruiz is champ and people don't use juice to try and steal his belt.

Holy **** you need a ****ing job.

[Shaolin Bushido]

"No Rematch? Anything Else Is Superfluous By MICHAEL KATZ (May 12, 2005)
LAS VEGAS, May 12 - The game is over, but at least it went out with a **** last Saturday night. You don't have to attend the funeral to know boxing is dead when a fight lives up to all the hype ever imagined and still can't sell 5,000 tickets.

You don't have to shovel dirt on the game when a heavyweight "champion" loses his title because of steroids and it's not mentioned on the lead-in to SportsCenter.

Outside of the sicko fans wearing out web site mail bags, no one cares. Boxing has become as relevant as Don King's shampoo. It's not going to be brought back from the dead this weekend when a guy named Tito fights a guy named Winky.

It's time to stop and smell the rotting.

It's almost enough to make someone want to spit out his mouthpiece."-maxboxing.com

This is a quote from the beginning of Michael Katz article talking about boxing being dead. Do you feel the sport is dead? I don't

No, there's been bull**** in the business/sport of boxing ever since one smartass figured out how passionately guys favored some guys over others and that he could make a buck by manipulating the odds just by gaining some control over one of the principals, the officials or the families of same.

Same ****, different day.

[Sweat]

Boxing is not dead.. i know one of the reason why most people think that boxing is dead.. that reason is because of boring heavyweight fights.. Most people only watch heavyweights and not other weight divisions like featherweights and welterweights.. They need to watch the lil guys now, its their time to shine, and not the boring, fat heavyweights..

[The Pretender]

Boxingscene owns maxboxing nuthuggers. And Ruiz the true champ so I don't know what they are talking about. Ruiz keeps the heart of boxing alive.

[Rockwell]

Every sport goes through low points. The fact of the matter is that HW boxing is the biggest draw for this sport and that weight is boring to many right now. A new "champ" will come around again soon.

All the more reason for Ruiz to stay the **** away???

[Sweat]

Boxingscene owns maxboxing nuthuggers. And Ruiz the true champ so I don't know what they are talking about. Ruiz keeps the heart of boxing alive.

u suck......

[The Troll]

boxing is coming back right now, especially cause hockey is gone.
boxing might not return to being the 1st or second most popular sport but imo it could get back to being a top 7 or 8 sport.

I think boxing in a way is still one of the 3 most popular sports. When there is a big fight like when Evander Holyfield fought Mike Tyson. Everybody watched that fight, everybody was talking about that fight etc... When the big fights come to boxing practically everybody at least in the US watches it and talks about. Just alot of people dont watch boxing unless there is a mega fight. And just because most Americans dont watch boxing unless there is a huge heavyweight superfight, look how the whole countries of Mexico and the Phillipines tuned in to watch Morales vs Pacquiao. Who is the most beloved Peurto Rican... Probably Felix Trinidad. Everytime he wins he has a parade in San Jaun its like he is the first guy to land on the moon. Julio Caesar Chavez is probably the most beloved man in Mexico 2nd only to Jesus.

The international matchups are good. People are probably tired of watching 2 Americans slog it all the time but when you match fighters from different countries alot of people get drawn for the nationalistic standpoint of it.

[The Pretender]

Boxing will always be popular. It's a contact sport and the people love gladiator sports, ask the Romans. Football trumps baseball because its a contact sport.

Boxing far superior to a ***** sport like basketball.