Boxing is a dying sport!

[Las Vegas,]

First of all UFC 125 will do just find considering the day it's on and the influx of new weight classes. Will it be the most successful? No! but it will do good consistant numbers.

And the UFC has plenty of up and comers. GSP is still very young and very popular. The heavyweight division has a some good up and coming strikers as well as other division such as the LHW that has an amazing talent in John Bones jones. The featherweight divisions and Bantamweight divisions are full of great young talent.


I don't think you know enough about the UFC to really make a coment.

Heh. Really? Were you watching the UFC when Tim Sylvia was champion? Were you watching the UFC when Tito and Dana were gonna have a boxing match? Were you watching the UFC when they had 4 PPVs a year? No, most likely not. Bro, I like MMA. I loved Pride. The UFC has always been the boring promotion due to horrid match making by Joe Silva, and now in the UFC after 2 loses, you lose your job. So the fighters don't fight for TV, they fight for their job. Oh, and by the way Zuffa is a private company, so you and dumb ass Metzer don't know what the numbers are. I literally laughed back when he said Hughes vs. Penn 2 did 1.3million. I laughed HARD.

Stop acting like you know everything about the sport, or the promotion. All because I love boxing doesn't mean I don't love MMA.

[dvb]

boxings still big,but on a global scale,but its not mega big like it used to be.

[pistol whip]

Heh. Really? Were you watching the UFC when Tim Sylvia was champion? Were you watching the UFC when Tito and Dana were gonna have a boxing match? Were you watching the UFC when they had 4 PPVs a year? No, most likely not. Bro, I like MMA. I loved Pride. The UFC has always been the boring promotion due to horrid match making by Joe Silva, and now in the UFC after 2 loses, you lose your job. So the fighters don't fight for TV, they fight for their job. Oh, and by the way Zuffa is a private company, so you and dumb ass Metzer don't know what the numbers are. I literally laughed back when he said Hughes vs. Penn 2 did 1.3million. I laughed HARD.

Stop acting like you know everything about the sport, or the promotion. All because I love boxing doesn't mean I don't love MMA.

I too was watching pride when silva was champion but the UFC HW division was always horrid up until the last 2 years or so. There were plenty of great match ups in the lower division Particulerly the Iceman Coture match ups and the Hughes vs Penn rivalry.

[SCtrojansbaby]

Ugh 500,000 PPV's sold on a consistent basis is far from a fad my friend.

Any sport thats popularity was built on a video game and reality tv show is a fad

[pistol whip]

Any sport thats popularity was built on a video game and reality tv show is a fad

So marketing and advertising your sport means it's a fad? So i guess the NFL, MLB, and NBA are all fads since they you know market themselves the exact same way. Hell even boxing markets itself the same way. Hello fight night video game and the contender series anyone? Hell even HBO's 24/7 series is a ***ing reality show.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

[QQQQQQQ]

Instead of cryign about it, go do something about it

[Hitman932]

Instead of cryign about it, go do something about it

There is definitely blame to be placed on the fans.

They are lazy and refuse to put money into the sport they allegedly love. I went to Khan-Maidana and it was pretty disgusting to see a crowd of only 4,000 for such an intriguing matchup.

Of course all the people who complain about boxing dying were sitting at home watching on free streams pretending they are real fans.

People will buy season tickets for ****ty football (both kinds) teams but they won't take a trip once a year to inject a little cash back into the greatest sport in the world.


There is also blame to lay on the fighters. If 2011 gave us Mayweather-Pac, Haye-Klitschko and Gamboa-Lopez I think people would be talking about how boxing is back on the rise...

[Alex_Ex]

Probably in US boxing is dying. In Europe it's on peak with many young talents from former USSR and Yugoslavia, but also from west european countries like UK or Germany. In Germany there are televised fights on free TV almost weekly. For instance, tomorrow Huck-Lebedev, Povetkin and Hernandez.

I think the part of american problem is that US-Americans seem to act like they don't care about heavyweight anymore, since the champs are not from US anymore. That's unsportsmanlike.

[Mayas]

Ross Greenburg is killing boxing in the USA.

But it's alive and well in Mexico, Germany, The Phillipines, and elsewhere.

Its not Ross, its Oscar DelaHoya and Arum that are killing boxing right now. More so, Oscar.

[ATG Fighter]

Maybe in the US, it isn't dying in Europe, Canada, etc.