what would make boxing main stream again?

[DoktorSleepless]

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.

Actually, premium networks need to start dishing out waay less instead of network tv attempting to match them. There's no way network tv will ever be able to match the premium cable purses, so they just stay out of the business all together knowing they'll never be able to attract the name fighters

Once premium cable stop overpaying all these mother****ers, fighters will be forced to fight more than twice a year, and they'll turn to network tv's lower purses for their inbetween fights. They'll also start to rely more on gate revenue so promoters will be forced to actually promote in order the most out of ticket sales.

[Luilun]

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?

Get rid of cherry pickers, incompetent judges paid off judges and greedy promoters

[Mike D]

There needs to be a commissioner that runs the entire sport. Like Roger Goodell does for the NFL. Boxers and their promoters can't run the sport like they do currently. The fighters would need to form a boxers union (like the players union in the other mainstream sports) so they could negotiate their demands. The commissioner would have to have the power to force fights. If the fighter doesn't fight, then he needs to be given an automatic loss. And obviously no money if you don't fight. Big money boxing tourneys need to be set up. ESPN needs to get involved. And I'm not talking their Friday Night Fights bull****. They need to promote fights like they do their big college football games and get big name fights.

None of this will happen but in a fantasy world this would be a billion light years better than the garbage set up we have currently.

[Duckweather Jr.]

Clean up all the bull**** belts.

Or add two more organisations "the HBO" and "Showtime" belts, crushing the bull**** orgs with 3 title holders in a division.

Boxing politics are the worst.

[thebowtod]

for someone to buy all the major promotions make it into a league like NFL, have their own sanctioning body and everything.

I dont see that happening though, is it even possible to buy promotions like top rank and Golden Boy?

[Mike D]

for someone to buy all the major promotions make it into a league like NFL, have their own sanctioning body and everything.

I dont see that happening though, is it even possible to buy promotions like top rank and Golden Boy?

Enough money can buy anything but nobody out there in their right mind would do it because they'd never see the return on it. Boxing is just so niche for anybody to take a chance like that on.

And it would be a huge number because both TR & GB have both publicly stated that they're fine making the millions upon millions they're making now to change the current business model one iota

[Duckweather Jr.]

for someone to buy all the major promotions make it into a league like NFL, have their own sanctioning body and everything.

I dont see that happening though, is it even possible to buy promotions like top rank and Golden Boy?

Neither of those guys would sell at anything close to an equitable price, I dont see how someone could get a return.

I am starting to think the networks should be forcing competitive fights, they are the ones who are paying for the content.

[BUNGALOWS]

True, elite talent. None of that, "he's really good, but he can't hold a candle to Sugar Ray, or prime Tyson".

We need those genuine Sugar Ray/Tyson/Ali/Ray Robinson talents. None of this, good enough for our generation type fighters.

So far, we have Manny, Floyd, old ass Hopkins, and Wlad that are transcendent talents.

THAT'S IT!

GGG's the man and all, but he's not a transcendent, once in a lifetime talent. Neither is Danny. Neither is Lucas. Neither is Thurman.

If Sergio was Mexican, shiiiiiiit.

[F!x]

Marketing and advertising, it's how virtually every successful product reaches it's peak revenue potential. They should start focusing on the fitness aspect of boxing and market it with fitness in mind, not just it's brutality.

If they plugged at with the message that it's a sport which requires a very high level of fitness so your health can actually be greatly improved by just training in a boxing gym, that might attract the growing number of fitness fanatics in this increasingly health-conscious world we're living in.

One of the things about boxing which puts certain people off is it's brutality and potentially life-threatening scenarios in the ring. It needs to be marketed with a bit less focus on slow-motion knockdowns, but more focus on stamina, agility, head movement, ducking and diving, footwork, feints.. just to demonstrate how demanding and challenging it can be from a physical perspective and how it could improve health.

But don't take away the knockdowns and knockouts completely because that's part of the sport which also attracts many people.

[Slip Stream]

If boxing actually took on some of the issues facing the sport, that give it a "black eye" so to speak, I think that could persuade some to give it a second look. PEDs, horrible scoring, horrible refs, corruption by promoters, and any number of other issues fans feel like aren't being addressed due to lack of regulation. The perception around boxing is that its a rogue sport with little oversight and to a certain extent that's true.

Who the **** wants to be vested in a sport where people like Arum, Haymon, and Schaefer are allowed to do business in the dark essentially and use the public airwaves to misdirect?