Are PPVS ruining boxing?

[Foreman]

Ppv are a symptom of boxing today. In the '50's and '60's boxing was a popular as baseball. Not so today. Back in the day, fighters fought more than once a year in a trumped up over hyped match. Fighters in the day fought better competition as in, the top guys fought the top guys.

Now fighters only want to fight once a year and make a killing each time. The general public has little knowledge of boxing today. There are may reasons for this. Screwy decisions, poor matches, out of shape fighters, inactive fighters etc. The public isn't aware of boxing even like it was in the '80's. EVERYONE was talking about Hagler, Hearns, Leonard etc.

Too many weight divisions with 3 or 4 different "champions" in each hasn't helped either. What boxing needs is a national commission with fewer weight classes, only one champ and regularly scheduled fights. Then maybe and it's a big maybe, boxing could get a t.v. deal like baseball or football. Heck NBC gave 6 BILLION for a few years of football. Now if Don King and Bob Arum are out of the picture that would be more than enough to go around.

[Easy-E]

ppv's are ruining boxing, attracting new fans is nearly impossible, someone who is starting to get interested in boxing is not going to pay 50 dollars for a couple matches. that is why less and less people are becoming boxing fans, because they cant see the fights

[Masta_Arena]

yea i agree with ppv is ruining boxing ..and plus u got to pay to watch the **** and some of the fights arent as good as u expected and u proly just wassted like 50$

[Easy-E]

true, the worst are early knockouts, like golota brewster, or jones tarver II, its just a waste of money

[Manny_P]

Don King is ruining boxing!

[Tha Greatest]

The only recent ppvs that were worth the money were

Barrera-Morales III

Pacquiao-Morales

Trinidad-Mayorga


Delahoya-Hopkins wasnt supposed to be exciting but it was a BIG fight so I don't blame them...

[Dirt E Gomez]

Don King isn't "runing" boxing... he spoiled it many years ago. PPV's aren't as large of a problem as getting fights in general are. There are a handful of great fights a year at best. THat simply isn't enough to grab the attention of random sport's fans who want entertainment.

[Tha Greatest]

Don King isn't "runing" boxing... he spoiled it many years ago. PPV's aren't as large of a problem as getting fights in general are. There are a handful of great fights a year at best. THat simply isn't enough to grab the attention of random sport's fans who want entertainment.

I agree with that...

maybe if there was more activity they wouldnt make a small fight so BIG

[spinksjinx]

I dont know why you people talk so much smack on King sure he might run the heavyweight division but as putrid as it is none of the fighters are stand outs. Also King brings the best ppv cards around if you go to a Don King card you are going at a fair price and going to see a card stacked with world titles. Don King has ruined nothing it is the west coast promoters who feed the latino garbage to every mexican fan with a pulse and that is sickening.

[The Troll]

As a fan of course nobody would prefer the way it is now, that every good fight costs 50$ to the way it used to be when all boxing was free on network televisoin.