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By Cliff Rold - Boxing is unhealthy, on its deathbed, irrelevant.
Etc.
It’s all been said before and it’s never quite true. Last weekend, over 40,000 showed up to watch Manny Pacquiao play the prohibitive favorite. A lively crowd showed up in the U.K. for a backyard brawl sensible money said David Haye would win easy.
Manny won every round. Haye knocked out Audley Harrison as soon as he opened up. The paying masses, the butts in the seats, seemed pleased at the closing bell.
The three most storied divisions in boxing are Heavyweight, Middleweight, and Welterweight. The old saying is something like, “As the Heavyweights go, so goes boxing.” The reality is that strong fields (or at least strong matches) at Middle and Welter have always been able to weather weaker Heavyweight waters.
So, if all three divisions can offer a fight fans don’t just want, but need, to see, then rumors of the sports demise are exaggerated. [Click Here To Read More]
Etc.
It’s all been said before and it’s never quite true. Last weekend, over 40,000 showed up to watch Manny Pacquiao play the prohibitive favorite. A lively crowd showed up in the U.K. for a backyard brawl sensible money said David Haye would win easy.
Manny won every round. Haye knocked out Audley Harrison as soon as he opened up. The paying masses, the butts in the seats, seemed pleased at the closing bell.
The three most storied divisions in boxing are Heavyweight, Middleweight, and Welterweight. The old saying is something like, “As the Heavyweights go, so goes boxing.” The reality is that strong fields (or at least strong matches) at Middle and Welter have always been able to weather weaker Heavyweight waters.
So, if all three divisions can offer a fight fans don’t just want, but need, to see, then rumors of the sports demise are exaggerated. [Click Here To Read More]
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