Is what happened bad for boxing?

[prinzemanspopa]

Than this certainly couldn't have helped it, could it?

It's gotten people talking,and it helps create a possible matchup between Haye and Chisora,which nobody would have given a damn about prior to their scuffle.

[Russian Crushin]

The media don't give two sh^ts about the sport as a whole,anyway.


There is nothing that can be done that could possibly lower the sports image in the eye's of these people.

Thats BS. Theres a reason theres regulation in sports

[ИATAS]

cloud vs campillo was FAR WORSE than some entertaining brawl. Anyone who saw that fight or heard about the outcome can only look at boxing as a joke. Nothing hurts boxing more than blatant robberies.

[Russian Crushin]

Are football (soccer) riots "good" for the sport?

[Shogunofharlem1]

cloud vs campillo was FAR WORSE than some entertaining brawl. Anyone who saw that fight or heard about the outcome can only look at boxing as a joke. Nothing hurts boxing more than blatant robberies.

Nothing more needs to be said.

[JAB5239]

It's gotten people talking,and it helps create a possible matchup between Haye and Chisora,which nobody would have given a damn about prior to their scuffle.

Its got them talking for the wrong reasons. Great fights bring respect. Punks and thuggery bring ridicule not just for those involved, but everyone else associated with boxing.

[Sweet Pea 50]

I really don't understand the whole "media argument".

Some of you are acting like boxing has sold it's soul out, when you got fucking clowns like the Kardashian's, Jersey Shore, and ESPN talking heads on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on twitter, facebook, and whatever have you "media" outlets running.

Wake up.

"Bu-bu-bu-but boxing is different!"

No, it assuredly is not.

It is a BUSINESS, just like anything else where a profit-loss = net margin is attached.

I have loved boxing for as long as I have loved just about any other sport.

But I'm not blind to it's fucking bullshit, either.

[New England]

bad for it's image?>


perhaps


bad for business?!?
hell no. it's great for business.

what's it going to look like after the klitschko's retire? i dont know, but i want to know what dereck chisora is going to be doing at his press conferences, weight ins, AND fights, for the rest of his career

getting lost in all of this was the performance of chisora. yes, klitschko looked old. he'd beat the doors off of fury if he showed up in shape like that. he'd probably stop him.


he GLASSED me

[thuggery]

nope, HW boxing is still irrelevant to me

[JAB5239]

Are football (soccer) riots "good" for the sport?

Exactly. Its bad publicity any way you slice it. Was the OJ incident good for football? Tiger Woods indiscretions for golf? Baseball's steroid scandal? Boxing is already considered a fringe sport nowadays. Things like this just serve to keep it illegitimate and rouge amongst the general public.