Why is ESPN's(english) coverage of boxing so terrible?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Because ESPN focuses on casual fans and a much wider audience,,,,

Boxing has ruined itself over the last 25 years in terms of mainstream media....

Fights only being on ppv,, or premium channels.
belts all over the place,, 4 champs per division is a joke, compared to other sports
bribery, crooked judges and officials,
Bowe dodging lewis was the begining of the end for heavyweight boxing
prospects fighting bums to pad a record to 28-0
Superstars fighting cherrypicks ala roy jones
fights on regular tv being horrible, thus drawing no ratings, thus no more tv coverage
Fighters not fighting,, tito-oscar 2, manny-floyd, etc

That is why boxing gets no respect from mainstream media,,,
Boxing only has itself to blame...

[elgranluchadore]

Because ESPN focuses on casual fans and a much wider audience,,,,

Boxing has ruined itself over the last 25 years in terms of mainstream media....

Fights only being on ppv,, or premium channels.
belts all over the place,, 4 champs per division is a joke, compared to other sports
bribery, crooked judges and officials,
Bowe dodging lewis was the begining of the end for heavyweight boxing
prospects fighting bums to pad a record to 28-0
Superstars fighting cherrypicks ala roy jones
fights on regular tv being horrible, thus drawing no ratings, thus no more tv coverage
Fighters not fighting,, tito-oscar 2, manny-floyd, etc

That is why boxing gets no respect from mainstream media,,,
Boxing only has itself to blame...

Right its all going downhill, now its even competing with gayass mma.
you forgot to add the klitkos killing boxing premier division

[Hougigo]

ESPN never know what they're talking about. They act like they know

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Right its all going downhill, now its even competing with gayass mma.
you forgot to add the klitkos killing boxing premier division

Klits aint killing the division,,, They are actually propping it up,, remember before the klits we had the god awful,, ruiz-byrd heavyweight era,,, nobody cared about the division then....
The thing that hurts Heavyweight division is american heavyweights are now going to become power forwards in the NBA or linebacker in NFL,, alot of money and stardom being in nfl or nba,,, not so much in boxing,,,,,, As boxing as drifted off TV and into premium channels and ppv, kids dont see guys when growing up,, their idols are now kobe, lebron, peyton manning, etc
in the 60's and 70's ALi was an idol to the youth

Klits at least have had major fights like the david haye, and now the poketkin,,
Not wlad's fault that haye ran scared in the biggest heavy fight in years..

[Public_Enemy]

Boxing is having one of the greatest years in a long time and no one even knows. ESPN has done a piss poor job with boxing coverage for a long time now. It only caters to casual fans.

Boxing needs to increase its availability as well. Almost all of the good fights are either on premium cable channels or PPV. It goes hand and hand. If casual fans don't watch boxing, it won't be on ESPN.

[ManUtd626]

I guess the thing that pisses me off the most is that they act like they are avid fans/analysts. Skip always says something like, "...I know boxing because I covered the Ali v Frazier." And Smith always says "... boxing is my second love after basketball." Then they proceed to scream at each other Skip says "Floyd was scared of Manny," while Smith laughs and says, "44 have tried, 44 have failed..." And I want to throw my tv out the window.

[DoktorSleepless]

ESPN Deportes has A Los Golopes hosted by Julio Cesar Chavez Sr on Mondays and Golpe a Golpe hosted by JMM on Fridays.

Jelly?

[Tay Roc]

ESPN sucks for everything not football/basketball. (I don't watch baseball.)

It's boxing coverage is especially horrible. All you really have is FNF, which is pretty good sometimes if Rafael is in the studio. I like Teddy Atlas, but in small dosages.

America is not big on boxing doe.

[South Pawn]

[QUOTE=Sugar Adam Ali;13605374]
The thing that hurts Heavyweight division is american heavyweights are now going to become power forwards in the NBA or linebacker in NFL,, alot of money and stardom being in nfl or nba,,, not so much in boxing

This is it right here.


As far as ESPN, First take is the worst show on an idiot network. ESPN programming, outside of FNF imo, is expertly tailored to appeal to the lowest common denominator of the North American male population, which is pretty ****in' low.

[AP♠]

Espn deportes always covers boxing related topics. The reason why Hispanics own ppv numbers across the globe. ESPN regular doesn't do jack for boxing and If they do like TS said they cover non in depth analysis of the most ******est ****.