Boxing has really fallen off bad

[HeavyweightCP]

Boxing isnt dead but in the 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s It was super main stream remember when the Heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted prize in all of sport to most Americans it not anymore to me it is.

[Someone88]

Yeah well lots of kids your age don't appreciate the sweet science,they think it's just two guys throwing punches at each other.

So they go with what they see that's more mainstream,like UFC and WWE! Consider yourself to be among the select few teenagers who actually like what most kids don't understand.

Strikeforce puts on way better fights than UFC but it's no where's near as popular. That should tell you something right there...

The UFC has the best fighters in MMA.

[HeavyweightCP]

Screw UFC i love boxing i watch UFC ko highlights every once and a while

[WILL2WIN]

Huh? I said puts on the best fights,not who has the best fighters. And there are alot of guys in strikeforce who could not only give the top ufc fighters a run for their money but also beat them,especially in the heavyweight division....

[WILL2WIN]

Im talking top fighters there not poor at all.

well than they wear grant bcuz that's what they prefer or when they weren't making lots they signed a contract to wear them for wutever.

The type of gloves isn't that big a deal anyways,unless your a big puncher than alot of guys like Reyes or if they want more protective gloves for busted hands they wear Grant. It's just politics and preference really....

[Mayweather41-0]

Boxing isnt dead but in the 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s It was super main stream remember when the Heavyweight championship of the world was the most coveted prize in all of sport to most Americans it not anymore to me it is.

True that. I remember my dad telling me when he worked for the city of chicago in the 60 and 70's it was like every Monday the guys would talk about the great fights over the weekend Ali or Sugar Ray Robinson or maybe some fighter on the undercard stole the show but there was always talk of Boxing and he said it really started to die down when Boxing went to premium cable and ppv. I remember I watched Rios vs. Acosta and Ortiz vs. Berto with him and he was telling me that if those fights were on NBC like they were back in the day everybody would be talking about them and that is so true.

[Cloud]

Few people on here know im an MMA fan. Love the UFC but i do admit that id take boxing over it anyday of the week. Recently, i only watch the KO's tbh.

If there is anyone in the UFC to watch, its Junior dos Santos. He was an unbeaten Kickboxer and his boxing is the best in their Heavyweight division. The only guy i like watching tbh. Pretty exciting fighter.

I keep wishing for a new 1985-1988 Mike Tyson but i know it will never happen...shame.

[HeavyweightCP]

Boxing needs to be back back on NBC so everbody can see alot of people dont want to pay 60 bucks

[Mayweather41-0]

Its pretty simple what has happened to Boxing in America. It was the longest running sport to be covered on National television and than it went to premium cable and what it basically did was limit its audience from about 112 million to 25 million. Look at Mexico for example:

That's the long-range game. And I look for my example as to what happened in Mexico. In Mexico, boxing was during Julio Cesar Chavez's time, a major sport. And then for the next 10 years after Chavez retired, boxing was only shown on premium and pay-per-view television. As a consequence, interest in boxing shrank, the audience shrank and boxing was considered a dying sport in Mexico. Number of years ago, maybe four years ago, we have a Mexican partner, Fernando Beltran, and we were doing a fight in Anaheim for HBO which involved a Mexican fighter, Jorge Arce. And Fernando, I'll never forget, came to me and he said, 'Bob, this fight is gonna be shown on TV Azteca in Mexico,' a terrestrial network. And I said, 'well how much are they paying?' He said 'nothing, we're giving it to them.' Earlier that year, to counter a program — a telenovela on Televista — they asked us to do a Mexican boxing show in Las Vegas on the evening of Mexican Independence Day. The rating they got really ate into Televista's rating, and they were then hooked on boxing. And right now, you can look it up, boxing in Mexico is a tad behind soccer. Only the big soccer games could out-rate boxing. Manny Pacquiao's last fight in Mexico did a 55-point something rating. Incredible. Julio Chavez Jr., when he just fought on Mexican television, it was the highest-rated show for the entire week. So boxing is back in Mexico and now Televista, the other terrestrial network, is now showing a lot of boxing. So boxing is fully recovered in Mexico and we believe the same thing can happen in this country.

[DAN916]

Thing with boxing to show a PPV at a bar or something they have to pay alot of money where as to UFC to show a PPV in a public place is about $2000 thats why you see it at bars, casinos n even hooters.