Comments Thread For: BoxingScene.com’s 2014 Fight of The Year

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By Cliff Rold - There was a time where the fights that top this year’s list would have had almost no chance to be honored by a US-based media outlet.

There was a time without YouTube.

There was a time before cable network BeIn Espanol (or access to dozens of other outlets for fisticuffs via cable of satellite).

For hardcore fight fans, this is a better time. This might be the best time, in terms of seeing the full scope of boxing’s wonders, there has ever been. Not everyone embraces the global approach. Some people need more familiarity with the men in the ring or can’t invest in commentary they don’t understand.

There’s nothing wrong with that.

For them, this is not the best of times.

Many end-of-the-year reviews have decried the sometimes-sorry state of boxing in 2014 in the States. Premium network and promotional issues have created almost two different leagues in boxing.

That sort of competition existed between WWF and WCW in the world of professional wrestling in the 90s and was great for a time. Professional wrestling is based on fictional storytelling devices.

Boxing is reality based. Competing leagues in boxing suck. Press releases celebrating peak audiences that don’t even approach two million live homes suck too.

Boxing isn’t dying. That’s a nonsense narrative. There is no escaping the state of affairs though. The existing niche isn’t growing much and the networks that push the sports biggest US draws are hit and miss. In much of the rest of the world, it’s still a big time sport. Carl Froch and George Groves put over 80,000 butts in the seats this year. Wladimir Klitschko does massive ratings and ticket sales abroad. Some 13 million tuned in to see Juan Francisco Estrada-Giovani Segura in Mexico. [Click Here To Read More]

[Hougigo]

Let's see if anybody else gives that fight recognition.... those guys would just not stop.

[Rip Chudd]

Good to see the Guerrero vs Kamegai fight get a mention. Seems as if people have forgotten how good it was

[Hougigo]

Good to see the Guerrero vs Kamegai fight get a mention. Seems as if people have forgotten how good it was

That fight was pretty brutal

[UTEP]

Definitely Fight Of The Year.

[UTEP]

Salido/Terdsak and Matthysse/Molina were my next picks.

[Aztekkas]

My personal pick as well but I loved your pool of contenders. It's writers such as yourself that give enough oxygen to these unknown fighters and outlets such as BScene that force the oxygen onto the public's lungs. Without these fighters going to war in obscure little arenas peppered across the world, boxing would be a much much duller place.

At times I honestly believe that the reason behind people claiming 2014 was such a horrible year is because of their own limitation and fear of stepping onto the unknown. Boxing is bigger than HBO and Shotime and reaches further than Las Vegas or San Antonio, etc... It's the language of fists that doesn't need a translator, all it needs is spectators and open minded individuals courageous enough to overlook the language barrier and submerge themselves in a foreign fight culture.

Sad to see most of my fellow boxing fans missing out on Japan's bubbling brew of hot new talent, Thailand's consistent flow of new warriors with enough heart to spare, The Philippines and its promising prospects and Mexico as well as other Spanish speaking countries in Central and South American producing elite level fighters and prospects.

The internet is changing the sport for the better. I love staying up all night just to catch a fight on the other side of the world in a foreign language.... It's almost magical to me anyway props on the pick. Thanks for such an unbiased selection.

[Hougigo]

My personal pick as well but I loved your pool of contenders. It's writers such as yourself that give enough oxygen to these unknown fighters and outlets such as BScene that force the oxygen onto the public's lungs. Without these fighters going to war in obscure little arenas peppered across the world, boxing would be a much much duller place.

At times I honestly believe that the reason behind people claiming 2014 was such a horrible year is because of their own limitation and fear of stepping onto the unknown. Boxing is bigger Han HBO and Shotime and reaches further than Las Vegas or San Antonio, etc... It's the language of fists that doesn't need a translator, all it needs is spectators and open minded individuals courageous enough to overlook the language barrier and submerge themselves iba foreign fight culture.

Sad to see most of my fellow boxing fans missing out on Japan's bubbling brew of hot new talent, Thailand's consistent flow of new warriors with enough heart to spare, The Philippines and its promising prospects and Mexico as well as other Spanish speaking countries in Central and South American producing elite level fighters and prospects.

The internet is changing the sport for the better. I love staying up all night just to catch a fight on the other side of the world in a foreign language.... It's almost magical to me anyway props on the pick. Thanks for such an unbiased selection.

Man.... speaking of foreign fights.... word is Kosei Tanaka may get a shot at the WBC champ.... freaking crop of those young Japan prospects jumping in.

I'd love to see Bundler fight Takayama or Tanaka/Menayothin.

[Aztekkas]

Man.... speaking of foreign fights.... word is Kosei Tanaka may get a shot at the WBC champ.... freaking crop of those young Japan prospects jumping in.

I'd love to see Bundler fight Takayama or Tanaka/Menayothin.

Budler vs Takayama would be a very active fight but Hekkie isn't my cup of tea still sad that Navoa got beat by Menay, was hoping for a fight between Rodirguez vs Oswaldo earlier this year but everything got broken apart over the course of the lat 3 months. Can't believe Takayama regained his belt so quickly and rather easily at that lol.

Also, wtf is Japan doing over there...? Their prospects are ready to dive into the shark infested waters and seem to always come out on top. Hope Kosei can show and prove like his fellow countrymen have been doing lately.

[Boxing lives]

turd sack knows how to bring the *****