MONEY
I swear that a few of you that rail so hard against this argument are ******ed.
The flux away from boxing is entirely fundamental.
Football especially, is a paradise for big, fast, physical specimens. The primary components are speed, field awareness, and strength for most positions in the game. All you have to be, is big and strong and a cut above moron and you have a chance.
You don't have to be a primary ball carrier to be successful.
You can even be a big strong fatass and be successful. (offensive lineman)
You can be a second stringer/post-practice squad player and be successful (make 6 figures)
You can be a second stringer that doesn't even play and be successful. (back up quarterback)
Who wouldn't want to be a part of a league that was lighter on dexterity than most sports and you can still have a career where you make hand over fist in moolah?
Boxing? lol
Why would any kid gravitate to that first outside of family ties or strange luck? That's like them working their own lemonade stand when they can get the quicker and better buck working at a fast food joint.
This issue is primarily economic. Hell, a kid would go for trying to make it as a recording artist for how potentially lucrative it is over boxing.
It's the sports' fault itself that it's become inaccessible and not economically viable compared to its counterparts to the young generation. This is what happens when you allow greed and corruption take hold in anything, it falls apart with everyone at the top keeping the spoils for themselves and not growing it.
U.S. Boxing's only real talent farm system are olympic squads for crying out loud. (bi-annual, 4 year cycles?)
Every other full contact sport has player grooming from kiddy leagues to college. And they're made aware of the financial incentives at those young ages. It's not even a contest boxing would be left in the dust as it is. It hasn't grown as a financial model for decades.
Best thing that could happen to it, is if they leagued it up and got it back on broadcast TV.
It will never even glancingly compete with the big 2 the way it is now.
I swear that a few of you that rail so hard against this argument are ******ed.
The flux away from boxing is entirely fundamental.
Football especially, is a paradise for big, fast, physical specimens. The primary components are speed, field awareness, and strength for most positions in the game. All you have to be, is big and strong and a cut above moron and you have a chance.
You don't have to be a primary ball carrier to be successful.
You can even be a big strong fatass and be successful. (offensive lineman)
You can be a second stringer/post-practice squad player and be successful (make 6 figures)
You can be a second stringer that doesn't even play and be successful. (back up quarterback)
Who wouldn't want to be a part of a league that was lighter on dexterity than most sports and you can still have a career where you make hand over fist in moolah?
Boxing? lol
Why would any kid gravitate to that first outside of family ties or strange luck? That's like them working their own lemonade stand when they can get the quicker and better buck working at a fast food joint.
This issue is primarily economic. Hell, a kid would go for trying to make it as a recording artist for how potentially lucrative it is over boxing.
It's the sports' fault itself that it's become inaccessible and not economically viable compared to its counterparts to the young generation. This is what happens when you allow greed and corruption take hold in anything, it falls apart with everyone at the top keeping the spoils for themselves and not growing it.
U.S. Boxing's only real talent farm system are olympic squads for crying out loud. (bi-annual, 4 year cycles?)
Every other full contact sport has player grooming from kiddy leagues to college. And they're made aware of the financial incentives at those young ages. It's not even a contest boxing would be left in the dust as it is. It hasn't grown as a financial model for decades.
Best thing that could happen to it, is if they leagued it up and got it back on broadcast TV.
It will never even glancingly compete with the big 2 the way it is now.
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