What does boxing need to attract young fans?

[onechance87]

What do we need?Do we need more excting boxers or something?
What yall think.

[IMDAZED]

More exposure.

[infamous larryx]

more boxing gyms...

[Thornton Melon]

Network TV would help.

When i was about 5 or 6 i could see Tyson, Sugar Ray and guys like that on ABC. It would help if there was more emphasis on the Olympics and building guys out of the Olympics like De La Hoya and the many before him.

[onechance87]

I'm not gonna lie,I followed boxing ever since antonio margarito fought
williams.I love how he came to fight,Same with wiliams.Ever since that
fight i followed boxing.

[catalinul]

Boxers that are flamboyant and exciting in and out of the ring in a good way for the sport.

A Naseem Hamed type or Mike Tyson or Aaron Pryor,etc.

Man I remember,and this was many moons ago mind you,when a Hamed fight was closing up and people were asking me ''when's the English guy gonna fiught again,the guy with the flying carpet that knocks people out?''These people weren't watching boxing but they were interested about Hamed.

[NChristo]

We need boxers with personality, look 10-15 years back boxing was a much bigger attraction because everyone had their own different unique personality and flamboyancy, today most boxers are just dull.

more boxing gyms...

There's more then enough.

[Kevin Malone]

The big fights available to middle and lower class famlies, period. Even when I was growing up all the big fights were on HBO, Showtime, and PPV. I didn't even have cable or satellite TV until I was 13 years old and when we got that there was no way we'd ever get HBO or Showtime. It's expensive to watch good boxing.

Big fights on free tv and basic cable would be the best thing to happen in boxing.

When you are 8 years old what are the odds you are going to stumble upon a fight that starts at 11PM on Showtime? Pretty slim. Put the fights on national TV earlier iin the night. Do this consistently and the sport will gain a ton of young fans...

[onechance87]

We need boxers with personality, look 10-15 years back boxing was a much bigger attraction because everyone had their own different unique personality and flamboyancy, today most boxers are just dull.

So do u mean like that coolness in mma?







There's more then enough.

So do u mean like that coolness in mma?

[NChristo]

So do u mean like that coolness in mma?

Don't watch MMA at all or pay any attention to it, but it seems to be attracting a lot of supporters and such, more so then boxing anyway