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By Cliff Rold - How dead is boxing in the US?
Let’s put aside that a sport some considered dead before last week was still capable of producing a revenue generator like Mayweather-Pacquiao.
The week before the Superfight shouldered its way into global focus, the Heavyweight Champion of the World packed the Garden and produced a solid TV number for HBO. This weekend, close to 40,000 will show up in Texas for Canelo Alvarez-James Kirkland and the week after that Gennady Golovkin will have a packed house in Los Angeles.
So, to those proclaiming boxing dead because, deep down, they probably think they’re too good for it and wish it would just go away:
Go to hell.
Here’s the truth: those people would have said boxing was dead if Mayweather-Pacquiao was the greatest fight since gloved boxing became a thing. It’s what they do.
They’ll be back saying it again after Deontay Wilder-Wladimir Klitschko or whatever the next fight is that captures the public stateside.
See them then.
Everyone else: welcome back to boxing at its normal levels. We now return to regularly scheduled programming.
This next two weeks is a great chance to generate new fans off the Superfight hangover.
Lots of people tuned in for the spectacle. There is plenty of room to grow off last Saturday’s technically interesting if disappointing showdown. Something curious, anecdotally, came from conversations about last weekend’s show. [Click Here To Read More]
Let’s put aside that a sport some considered dead before last week was still capable of producing a revenue generator like Mayweather-Pacquiao.
The week before the Superfight shouldered its way into global focus, the Heavyweight Champion of the World packed the Garden and produced a solid TV number for HBO. This weekend, close to 40,000 will show up in Texas for Canelo Alvarez-James Kirkland and the week after that Gennady Golovkin will have a packed house in Los Angeles.
So, to those proclaiming boxing dead because, deep down, they probably think they’re too good for it and wish it would just go away:
Go to hell.
Here’s the truth: those people would have said boxing was dead if Mayweather-Pacquiao was the greatest fight since gloved boxing became a thing. It’s what they do.
They’ll be back saying it again after Deontay Wilder-Wladimir Klitschko or whatever the next fight is that captures the public stateside.
See them then.
Everyone else: welcome back to boxing at its normal levels. We now return to regularly scheduled programming.
This next two weeks is a great chance to generate new fans off the Superfight hangover.
Lots of people tuned in for the spectacle. There is plenty of room to grow off last Saturday’s technically interesting if disappointing showdown. Something curious, anecdotally, came from conversations about last weekend’s show. [Click Here To Read More]
those casual fans wher killing this site for awhile,theirs still a few stragelers but at least the bulk of the ******s are gone...good post,at least we still get to see the wars that will be produced this year 
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