Boxing needs to be on DVD for the sport to survive.

[Marcov]

How awesome would it be if they upscaled some old fights! I'd buy a ridiculous amount of boxing DVD & Blu'rays if they did ever hit the shelves.

TV does upscale them when they are good enough to show it. Having a dvd recorder is a wonderful thing. Now if only they showed more of the classics.

[DrewWoodside]

How awesome would it be if they upscaled some old fights! I'd buy a ridiculous amount of boxing DVD & Blu'rays if they did ever hit the shelves.

I'd have an enhanced Special Edition Hagler, Leonard, Ali, Duran, Tyson.. list goes on etc etc. Let's be honest, for NSB posters we're better off this stuff isn't available. I can't afford for boxing to sell itself correctly.

[paulf]

I'd have an enhanced Special Edition Hagler, Leonard, Ali, Duran, Tyson.. list goes on etc etc. Let's be honest, for NSB posters we're better off this stuff isn't available. I can't afford for boxing to sell itself correctly.

Here we are waiting to pump out money into the sport, but the only way they want to make money is by trying to talk us into buying a Sugar Shane/Sergio Mora PPV.

Theyre doing it all wrong.

[xAUGUSTUSx]

I agree 100% this is a good idea.

[Fish_Scotland]

Hear me out here.

This is the era of "I want it now." You survive and stay relevant by providing content and providing merchandise. In other words, in order to keep people interested, they need to be able to spend their money and time on you, or they find somewhere else to go spend it.

This, in my opinion, is part of the reason Boxing doesn't generate as much interest anymore.

Most boxing fans are boxer fans. They have the guys they like and want to watch, and aren't too interested in watching fighters they don't know/like get it on. But how is boxing keeping fans interested? The guy you like comes out once or twice a year to fight, and that's all you see of him? What else do they offer to keep you, as a fan and consumer, satisfied? Nothing.

Compare that to the NBA. Those guys are in your face every weekend for months and months each year. And if you want more? Well, the Boston Celtics have 13 DVDs at their online store. Every year you can buy the Superbowl, NBA finals, and All kinds of Nascar **** on DVD to relive any time.

What if you have a band you really like, but the only time you get to hear them is when they have a new song on the radio? You hear it the few times it plays, and if you want to hear it again you have to go through some complicated, illegal method of acquiring it? Would you even bother?

Every awful show on TV has a season boxset on DVD mere months after the season ends. Why doesn't ESPN release a collection of the best fights (or every fight!) from each Friday Night Fights season the way TV shows release box sets?

And HBO? I know their fights aren't on DVD because they don't retain the broadcast rights or whatever, but why can't they change that? Many HBO fighters are already grossly overpaid. By releasing individual broadcasts or yearly best-of DVDs all they'd be doing is giving fighters more exposure and encouraging people to be more interested in the the sport.

What if, in the weeks before a Floyd Mayweather PPV match, someone could walk into Best Buy/Suncoast/WalMart and pick up a DVD of Floyd Mayweathers best fights? Wouldn't that raise their interest in seeing the match? UFC has already taken note; they release every UFC event shortly after it airs on DVD.

And why the hell isn't 24/7, an Emmy winning series, on DVD??

Boxing needs to get it together. Networks are still doing things exactly the way they did them 15-20 year ago, and if they don't adjust the sport will continue to see it's base shrink smaller and smaller.

Excellent post! ****ing strange too as I was going to put up a post to see if anyone could fire up a site for buying boxing DVD's as I'm sick of watching grainy assed you tube videos of old fights. I jam up sky box (sat TV) hardrive with fights from the box but always have to bin them after a while to free up space for some more fights or PPV's. Frustrating as ****.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

God forbid, you might even own Andre Berto's "career" set.. Dust it off every time there's a big fight to show your friends you're a real hardcore fan.

or i can pop in John Ruiz's Greatest Hits when i want everyone to leave

[-MAKAVELLI-]

paulf,



i can see it now tho...in NSB....threads titled 'Floyd's DVD's Have Outsold PAC's DVDs'

[Deep Blue 1997]

paulf,



i can see it now tho...in NSB....threads titled 'Floyd's DVD's Have Outsold PAC's DVDs'

nah, what they need to do is sell them as if they were a TV series.

HBO can have every year of Boxing as if it were one season.

(like have "Boxing After Dark season 1", having all BAD broadcasts for the year in the bluray.)

it'd be best so people can broaden their liking of unknown fighters.

i would totally buy every Bluray available if they did this

[Vasyl’s dad]

I've thought this for years. I can go to Best Buy and pick up any UFC, WWE, NBA, MLB, NFL, etc, etc dvds,

but rarely, any boxing dvds.


The ones I have purchased, are from fighters that have retired long ago.

[DrewWoodside]

or i can pop in John Ruiz's Greatest Hits when i want everyone to leave

The sad thing is we'll be able to buy a Couture/Toney DVD before any of the fantasies discussed in this thread.