what would make boxing main stream again?

[nickphilli]

What do you guys think would help boxing become a mainstream sport again? Like back in the old days where everyone watched or listened to the fight. Ideas?

[Da Machine]

Network tv dishing out as much money as premium networks.

When everything is pay to watch, you limit your audience. Boxing's audience has been limited for a long time.

[johncods]

Pacquiao-Mayweather. All eyes would be on boxing. Sporting World, Music World, Movie world. The whole world would stop and watch that fight. Too bad it still has not happened and the window is closing.

[{Pito}]

Cosign network television

[-Kev-]

Pacquiao-Mayweather. All eyes would be on boxing. Sporting World, Music World, Movie world. The whole world would stop and watch that fight. Too bad it still has not happened and the window is closing.

That's less than a band-aid. So boxing goes mainstream for several months of pre fight hype, then one day the event happens, and has some talk a week or 2 after. That's it, then it ends.

To become mainstream it needs something permanent, like MLB, NBA, NFL. Boxing does not revolve around one fight.

[dman4093]

Having a young American male heavyweight with George Foreman' power, Ali's ****iness, Nicolino Locche defense and Sugar Ray Leonard speed and he has to win all his fights by knockout before the sixth round and have no losses.
Or Ali can finally come out of retirement.

[Mike D]

I doubt it will ever be mainstream again. First of all we got promoters and TV networks who act like butthurt 8 year olds and fights worth seeing for the casual fan are just too far spread out. Most of us here watch any fight, whether it's on Fox Sports, ESPN, or the premium networks -- but the casual fan only gets hyped for PPVs or maybe your occasional fight like Broner/Maidana or Garcia/Mathysse (if that one had it's own card).

Sports like the NFL & NBA have **** tons of casual fans who tune in to be a part of the crowd/bandwagon. Boxing doesn't have that. At all. We'll get casuals on Mayweather & Manny PPVs but casuals don't tune in to your average Showtime or HBO Saturday night card. Only us hardcores do.

If they ever want to become mainstream again then they'll have to find a way to get the casuals. Which would be a monster task.

[AgainstTheRopes]

Nothing short of the the next Mike Tyson.

[LoadedWraps]

What do you guys think would help boxing become a mainstream sport again? Like back in the old days where everyone watched or listened to the fight. Ideas?

An absence of the politics and promotion wars that plague the sport now, as well as significant increase in exposure through major networks. Then it would just be a matter of time before the sport enriched itself through interest in the youth, and a surge in gyms, etc.

[Spray_resistant]

For it to be organized like a real sport not some carnival act but the boxing biz has a good little scam and why would they want to give that up? so nothing other than an official league and a major cable network deal can do that.