Comments Thread For: State of The Game: So Let Me Get This Straight…

[ИATAS]

Very good article ....all I can say is somebody hurry up and get this year over...PLEASE!!!....if someone told me before this year began sometime last year.. that Klitschko-Haye and dude-King Pac wouldnt happen in 2010 I probably would've slapped you and called you a liar

If someone told me that by late July the best fight of the year would be between John Duddy and Chavez jr. I would have jumped off a bridge!

[BennyST]

Hear ****ing hear!

[imisupu]

Killing the game

I'm a HUGE boxing fan, 2 years ago a friend of mine told me that the UFC will take over boxing. I laughed so hard becuase I thought he was ******, but now you can never get the fight you are suppose to get MAY/PAC should be over we should be gearing up for MAY/PAC II. Other fights such as Haye vs any Klitchko brother or Bradley/Maidana/Alexander or Khan are well overdue Pavlik/Williams should have happened now you have Martinez as the linear champ after he lost to Williams and beat Pavlik after Pavlik ran from Williams. Now PWill is chasing a wing and a prayer in hopes he will get PAC, when he should fight Martinez in a rematch because there first fight was to damm close. In the UFC everybody wants to see Silva vs St. Pierre I guarantee you if they both win there next fight we get that fight. By the time MAY/PAC happens one of them would have suffered a loss or gotten old I say we all stop buying paperviews until we get what we want I know I'm not paying for another one until it's worth it.!!!!!!

[ghost deini]

good read man totally agree with everything you said

unfortunately what can we do we love the sweet science so we'll always be interested in the sport

we are at the mercy of these shady promoters and networks

things like the super 6 did a little to help boxing but not nearly enough

fights like gamboa v juanma lopez, haye v klitschko, pac v mayweather, bradley v alexander need to materialize if we have any chance of competing with those meatheads at mma

[Thickback]

Great article! Well said and way overdue....

[Davros?]

Boxing has been disappointment after disappointment this year. There are some good matchups to be made, but not one of them has been made this year. I am becoming seriously pissed of with the sport.

Haye and Floyd are typical examples of what is wrong with the sport today. They have already made lots of money and would make career high paydays if they where to fight but instead they wont because they are worried about losing.
Can you imagine a football team qualifying for the champions league for the first time but passing up on the offer because they are worried about losing? would you see Ferrari not turning up to an F1 race because they could get beaten by McLaren? Would a 100m sprinter who qualified for the Olympic final turn down the offer because he could get beaten?

The point in sport is to entertain the audience, A sportsmen should be willing to take on the fights that the people who pay him want to see. Sportsmen should want to prove them self’s at the highest level by fighting the best. David Haye and Floyd Mayweather are not sportsmen they are businessmen, and I have to say David Haye is not a very good businessmen.

[Gratide]

gREAT ARTICLE , TELL IT LIKE IT IS !!! MAYWEATHER , HAYE AND HBO ARE MONSTERS , I WISH BOXING WAS MORE FAN FRIENDLY LIKE UFC . THE ONLY THING YOU CAN REALLY
" HANG YOUR HAT ON " IS FRIDAY NIGHT FIGHTS . PRAY FOR PBF , HAYE AND HBO TO GET A HEART AND A BRAIN !!!!

[Scary]

I think this article is spot on what is wrong with boxing. All these top athletes, who are so afraid of losing a match makes top fights rare today.
This sport is unique in ways that makes every move you make so intense, every boxing fan knows what a loss means, you simply must not lose in boxing. It's not like in any other sport, it's win or the garbage can for many fighters. A good example is Kesslers loss to Ward, the favourite wins to the more or less unknown fighter, all of a sudden Kessler is in the bottom of the hierachy and Ward is the new king of SMW-tourny.

Basicly I think it's because of the lossfactor that so many elite boxers chooses the easier competetion to stay in the money making business for longer, and to keep on being a top name in the division. Top boxers today should be a lot more like in the old days, and challenge themselves. That is what boxing needs right now, that is what the fans need and basicly I think that is how you reach the top in boxing. Fight the best, become the best. Don't let anything else fool you.

Luckily there's boxers out there who always takes on whatever put in front of them:

Marquez
Kessler
Abraham
Margarito
Froch
Cotto
Wladimir
Vitali
Ward
Mosley

Just to name a few. All these fighters have been great champions, true warriors.

[Chief2ndzOnly!]

Beautiful article!!!!!! Grade A stuff right here, it is a must read article hands down.

[Malius]

Awesome article only problem is only the fans read this while some boxers and promoters only have their bank statements open when online.