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By Cliff Rold - If this was a Saturday night headliner, it wouldn’t feel out of place. That it’s coming on a Thursday makes it feel a little unique. On a weekend where boxing largely goes dark and the Super Bowl takes over the (US) sporting world, this is the fight that has our attention.
We need more weekday fights like this. Not to get off track but…
…boxing’s reliance on Saturday nights is one of its weaknesses. Great fights used to happen on days other than Saturday. Ali-Frazier, Leonard-Hagler: weekday fights. Boxing was more popular on the American landscape then. When there were more fights on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, it was too.
In Japan, fights happen in weekday prime time regularly even now. It’s healthy. Boxing’s audience in the US is often said to skew old. That’s not. That it skews old speaks to the fact that it plays its biggest shows to people who are home Saturday nights. UFC goes with major cards about once a month. Younger fans can do one show a month. [Click Here To Read More]
We need more weekday fights like this. Not to get off track but…
…boxing’s reliance on Saturday nights is one of its weaknesses. Great fights used to happen on days other than Saturday. Ali-Frazier, Leonard-Hagler: weekday fights. Boxing was more popular on the American landscape then. When there were more fights on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, it was too.
In Japan, fights happen in weekday prime time regularly even now. It’s healthy. Boxing’s audience in the US is often said to skew old. That’s not. That it skews old speaks to the fact that it plays its biggest shows to people who are home Saturday nights. UFC goes with major cards about once a month. Younger fans can do one show a month. [Click Here To Read More]
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