What's killing boxing?

[Jloro]

Honestly there are a lot of factors.

I don't like the fact that once a fighter reaches the pinnacle of the sport it cost almost $80 to see him fight (Floyd and Manny). These two bring the most exposure to the sport. We need some freebies once in a while. It also hurts that there is no heavyweight superstar.

Cold War between Golden Boy and Top Rank. This cost us the biggest fight of the decade and many other great fights (Donaire vs Mares).

Bad judging- We had a fight party at my friends house for Pacman vs. Bradley. It was his 1st time watching/paying for a PPV event. No need to continue. Boxing is like the only sport dumb enough to rob the superstar.

Too many belts and then some of the sanctioning bodies don't want unification bouts. But of course that only applies to some fighters.

And that leads us to corruption. There's so much corruption in boxing its shameful. The judges, promoters, sanctioning bodies, dirty fighters etc....

this sums up everything. But Boxing is not dying. I'd say it is flourishing. Maybe injured but it shall live on for many years to come

[balderasthebest]

Is it the ridiculous number of belts? The boxing organizations themselves? Having too many weight classes? Corrupt refs/judges? All of the above?

I think you and I are going to die first.

[xLuKeYx]

Fans that have no respect for the sweet science, only being bias towards certain fighters. The sanctioning bodies that seem to bode bias towards certain fighters. The knowledge that ignorant fans seem to possess about what are skills and what is not.

You are aware that none of what you said is what you could call a new occurrence, right? Things have been that way since way back, and probably always will be.

[Jam Jars]

Rules not being enforced, look at all the great fights and you'll notice that none of them have any of the BS constant holding that is so widespread now and makes fights boring as hell. In fighting is basically extinct, jab, straight, hold and reset. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

[The Ninth Layer]

The #1 thing that is killing boxing is: no media coverage.

ESPN doesn't bother reporting on exciting stories in boxing, even with fights as relevant and important and impressive as Peterson vs Matthysse.

When a good fight happens in boxing, nobody knows it happened except people who are already fans of the sport.

[PAC-BOY]

and Floyd Mayweather

[mezoomozaa]

Boxing is dying again eh? For the 7th decade now.

hahahahahaha

I say "ridiculous number of belts" is bad for the sport

[mrpain81]

The #1 thing that is killing boxing is: no media coverage.

ESPN doesn't bother reporting on exciting stories in boxing, even with fights as relevant and important and impressive as Peterson vs Matthysse.

When a good fight happens in boxing, nobody knows it happened except people who are already fans of the sport.

This is the biggest factor outside of all the fights being on premium channels with tiny audience compared to network television.

The sport has become so hard to follow the media will rather just say it's dead/dying then have to put the time and effort into understanding how all the BS belts/promoters/television crap works.

[Infamous]

and Floyd Mayweather

Good stuff.

[GoogleMe]

Ehm boxing is not getting killed? It's status and interest is growing in Europe and Asia. South america is also growing. So why do you say it's getting killed?