Arum is killing boxing

[Porter's Dad]

PPV and Premium Cable kill boxing. If HBO wouldn't have got Foreman-Frazier 38 years ago boxing would be huge today.

Yep. If you think about it, in a funny way......maybe boxing's commercial appeal isn't that bad considering that it is a sport that is so reliant on PPV and is shown on cable. (This applies to the UK too, terrestrial TV stopped showing it a long time ago)

I mean, attracting new fans and the casual audience......would YOU find it easy to get into a sport as inaccessible as boxing is? Even if we had 10 cross-over stars like Pac, the fact that boxing isn't available to the masses, that the most commercial fights are invariably PPV.......that will always hinder the sport.

Which is a shame, cos it's such an incredible, transcendent sport.

[Kevin Malone]

Yep. If you think about it, in a funny way......maybe boxing's commercial appeal isn't that bad considering that it is a sport that is so reliant on PPV and is shown on cable. (This applies to the UK too, terrestrial TV stopped showing it a long time ago)

I mean, attracting new fans and the casual audience......would YOU find it easy to get into a sport as inaccessible as boxing is? Even if we had 10 cross-over stars like Pac, the fact that boxing isn't available to the masses, that the most commercial fights are invariably PPV.......that will always hinder the sport.

Which is a shame, cos it's such an incredible, transcendent sport.

It's bad. Talk to the average sports fan.

"Some good fights this weekend you should check them out"

"oh yeah, what channel?"

"Uh, HBO/Showtime/PPV."

"yeah, I just have basic cable and I'm not gonna buy a PPV"

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[Kevin Malone]

Also in regards to this: Boxing is apparantly exploding in Mexico even moreso than before because of terrestial tv broadcasts.

[Anti~Jalandoni]

gamboa might go to jail
juanma is not as good as first thought
Brandon Rios is pissed cos Bob barely gets him a fight
Soto's gone

Karma

who's Bob got after Manny? No-one

Better stay away from GBP's Donaire

[Chew BackAtacha]

Also in regards to this: Boxing is apparantly exploding in Mexico even moreso than before because of terrestial tv broadcasts.

and do you know which promoters origininated PPV and Cable boxing?

good riddance to both

boxing not being on terrestial television was inevitiable, no-body wants to see people potentially die in the ring, which is why it is no longer on british terrestial television after what happened to Gerald Mccellan

[Porter's Dad]

and do you know which promoters origininated PPV and Cable boxing?

good riddance to both

boxing not being on terrestial television was inevitiable, no-body wants to see people potentially die in the ring, which is why it is no longer on british terrestial television after what happened to Gerald Mccellan

Just reminds me of how huge boxing was when it was on terrestrial TV. I mean, that whole Benn/Eubank/Watson era was insane. It felt like the whole country was watching the fights. And that's not even an exaggeration.

[Chew BackAtacha]

Just reminds me of how huge boxing was when it was on terrestrial TV. I mean, that whole Benn/Eubank/Watson era was insane. It felt like the whole country was watching the fights. And that's not even an exaggeration.

i agree, which is why your have this generation of british fighters who are quite frankly the best we'll ever see, becuase these kids watched the fights and prince naseem etc

but, what happened to Watson was the hammer and what happened to mccellan was the nail, boxing on terrestial televison hasnt been the same since

[Porter's Dad]

i agree, which is why your have this generation of british fighters who are quite frankly the best we'll ever see, becuase these kids watched the fights and prince naseem etc

but, what happened to Watson was the hammer and what happened to mccellan was the nail, boxing on terrestial televison hasnt been the same since

They did dabble though. Khan/Froch/Witter (ITV) and (good lord) Audley on the BBC. And I remember when BBC2 used to broadcast the repeat of fights in America on Sunday nights (which was a god send before the days of the internet)

Honestly, I am stupefied why they don't try again. I mean, some of the garbage-ass sports we get on terrestrial......wow. And the thing is, whenever boxing is on ITV/BBC, the casual fans tend to really get into it.

Boxing is a very easy sport to get into if it is accessible. It has an intensity and immediacy that hooks people in. It's not that people don't enjoy the sport as a spectacle - it's that they don't get to watch it enough.