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Obviously the more comfortable our life styles become, the more the majority would want to embrace comfort and the more even boxers would embrace it as well. So these safety first fighters are as far as I can see, something we should have expected. Not that they are lazy, but in ages past, the one thing you did not want to be as a boxer was a coward. Now there are many, who dodge the tough fights and clinch and hold and run. The standards clearly have dropped. I only wonder if on down the line, the sport is snuffed out for good based purely on society growing too soft to tolerate it.
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No. We live in a world with the UFC & guys jumping off mountains with outfits that help them glide thru the air & ****. I think boxing has too many chiefs & not enough indians is the biggest problem in boxing. If all these greedy guys in boxing got together & made a centralized group that could allow for the top athletes competing vs top athletes all the time, like every other sport has, I think boxing would have a huge resurgence in mainstream sports.
Today in boxing you gotta align promoter interests with TV channel interests with alphabet group interests with fan interests & with boxers & their managers interests. Theres too many f#cking hoops to jump thru.
Boxing would be better if some super matchmaker of a boxing league could call up Ward & say your fighting GGG, Kov or that TR Mexican kid (f#ck me I can't remember his name) & if Ward says nah, he ain't fighting no one for 4 months & then he'll get offered the same guys or the top 3 hottest opponent options at that point. Boxing needs a dictatorship like the NFL, UFC, NBA, MLB, NHL & every sport basically.Comment
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A few words on fighters of the very old school who were not so privileged.
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I hope you don't feel the same way about government. Haha
I agree. There are many hoops to jump through. The number of organizations is ridiculous. I think without the sanctioning fees, a few would disappear which would be a step in the right direction. The sport needs as few champions as possible.Comment
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Yes, that's why MMA is gaining popularity. Boxing will be left to this niche group...that soft set. In a few more years, it will evolve into shadow boxing!Comment
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no, other sports have evolved, changed rules, adapted and done different things to expand their sport's popularity. boxing like baseball relies on it's past time more than any other sport in America, not too sure about the rest of the world.
the corruption hasn't helped boxing one bit either. I can't remember how many times I read on the newspaper, tv or saw coverage about a bad decision and it was reported as something that's expected of the sport. To me that tells me that people had gotten over the bs and weren't surprised with things like that in the sport and moved away little by little from boxingComment
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I don't want to imagine talking about glovegate in the future
"The reditru, the redistrubu, the redistri... there's no padding"Comment
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