Mayweather is a Turn-off to Casual Boxing Fans

[John Barron]

Mayweather bores the **** out of people and casual fans don't get turned on by his bull****, ***** style.

repeat yourself as much as you want, numbers don't lie.

[PAC-BOY]

Please stop with these ignorant Mayweather threads. There is a Mayweather/Pacquaio Master page. Post this crap on that page instead of creating a new thread.

Its not a Pacquiao Mayweather thread. Did you not read the thread? If anyone needs to stop something, its you being a little dry snitch. If you dont like the thread...you dont have to comment. If you dont like the Forum log out and never return. If you dont like the TS, ptut him on your ignore list. Simple isnt it.

glad to help

[PAC-BOY]

oh and BTW. Floyd is a turn off. Hes a disgusting piece of garbage that stinks up the sport. Hopefully he will retire soon and leave the sport of boxing as the biggest coward that he is. That way we can have mega fights with fighters who are actually wanting to fight the best out there.

[MurkaMan]

The thing is Floyd is too skilled and technical for the average casual fan to even comprehend what he is doing , the man on the street understands punch for punch he has no clue about the skills and science of boxing , isnt it ironic that the so called casual fans say he runs and is chicken bla bla but the HOF fighters and HOF trainers say he is amazing .

Its all about what you know and idiots dont know much of what is right before their eyes .

I completely disagree. Floyd dont fight like the average "skilled" fighter. He fights like a holagram and anyone with eyes, can see that what he did to JMM and Canelo was pure amazement. The Floyd HATERS LIE after each fight and say he was running. And he has so many haters that credible boxing people and regular people just REPEAT What the haters say. Millions of people been buying his ppvs to actually see him do his thing. Not see him lose, that makes no sense. People appreceate greatness as I said before. Its like watching Tiger Woods in his prime, or watching MJ shoot jumpers and dunks.

[SkillspayBills]

Casual fans hate him. They all buy his PPV's to see him lose.

Mayweather has been banking off the villain role for a long time now.

Wanting to see someone lose and being a turn off are two totally different things. Turn-off insinuates he makes people want to forgo watching boxing. THAT'S INCORRECT. He brings more eyeballs to the sport, more exposure and more money. Point. Blank. Period.

[HanzGruber]

oh and BTW. Floyd is a turn off. Hes a disgusting piece of garbage that stinks up the sport. Hopefully he will retire soon and leave the sport of boxing as the biggest coward that he is. That way we can have mega fights with fighters who are actually wanting to fight the best out there.

How was your ban? Lol

And what a dumb thread. You know who buys all those ppvs? Not the 3 thousand boxing fans on this site lol. CASUALS do

[RespekonMyName]

oh and BTW. Floyd is a turn off. Hes a disgusting piece of garbage that stinks up the sport. Hopefully he will retire soon and leave the sport of boxing as the biggest coward that he is. That way we can have mega fights with fighters who are actually wanting to fight the best out there.

You should get some help.

[copablack]

The sport has had it's ups and downs. I remember in the 1990s when I would go into a Wal-Mart to the magazine section and find copies of The Ring, Boxing '93('94, '95, etc.), Boxing Illustrated, KO and others but now? If I am lucky, they occasionally have The Ring.

Now you may be thinking this is a product of the digital age we live in. But still, why don't those other magazines have digital copies for download? Again, you can make the argument that there are still tons of boxing websites. You could be right.

However, when baseball, basketball and football have their regular games as well as their major events free for all to watch and boxing requires payment to view any major event with few regular events available, you have to wonder how anyone could be surprised that it's popularity has declined.

Has it declined?

Well, I challenge you to walk into any bar and listen to the patrons talk about sports and I guarantee you are more likely to hear about the other three sports or if you even hear about boxing, it's going to be Pacquiao or Mayweather- the two guys who can't seem to ever fight each other.

Not good for the sport to say the least.

So with this current state being reality, what would a casual observer want to see from the occasion they happen to see a boxing match? My guess is a lot of action, a lot of punching, some knockdowns and probably a knockout.

Does Mayweather deliver on any of these things?

There is usually little action, few punches from himself, zero knockdowns and never a knockout. He wins fights and for some hardcore boxing fans, he proves to be slick and know where to be in the ring and how to land pretty outside punches the judges score points for. So for those fans, all is fine. But to the casual observer?

Boxing needs fighters- ACTION fighters. While Pacquioa has not scored a knockout in a while, his fights always feature plenty of punches and lots of action and as in his last fight, plenty of knockdowns. What about Wladimir Klitschko? Usually scores a knockout and usually a knockdown and generally throws plenty of punches. GGG? Always a knockout with knockdowns and plenty of heavy punches that get reactions from casual observers who could turn into hardcore fans. Marquez? He usually makes for an entertaining fight and sometimes gets knockouts or knockdowns at least, although I dare say he is the most exciting either. Counterpunchers rarely are.

The point is that hoisting up a guy who has such a low crowd pleasing style is not a good move for the sport. How he has managed to sell tickets is the idea that he could lose for the most part. But casual fans get turned off by watching him and in the end, are less likely to watch another fight. I understand that ratings are what they are and even the best is not necessarily ranked number one for reasons such as what they have done lately and landing the fight to prove themselves.

In closing, I think Mayweather is given too much praise overall. No matter how good you are, if your style is dull, how are you good for the sport?

He obviously is doing something right because he has broken all records in ppv buys and ppv revenue also has the highest live gate revenue! casual fans either hate him or love him but still support his fights because even though his last ppv sales have been low its still twice as much as anyone else... also you have to keep in mind that 2014 had way too many fights on ppv and that hurt ALL of them! if manny and floyd fight which is a fight that everyone wants to see including myself, what will that do for the sport going forward? if the fight is not competitive then how will that bring boxing "back" like everyone likes to say? boxing is still very popular and their are many great fights out there to be made that would be much more competitive than Manny vs Floyd, honestly i think all the talk about this fight is more exciting than what the fight will be!

[SeekDaGreat]

He holds records for PPV and is the biggest draw in the sport so clearly the casual fans are turning on to watch him fight

Yeah, to watch him hopefully lose, or as an excuse to throw a party. Not because he's am entertaining boxer. But the end justifies the means so whatever it takes he's still getting people to watch. Just imo for all the wrong reasons....

[Xi_]

lmao........pathetic, so ****ing pathetic.