Boxing is dead

[Sugar Adam Ali]

The level of boxing dropped DRAMATICALLY in last ten years.

Totally agree..

Remeber a decade ago or so when the p4p list was made up of guys like

Lennox
Morales
Barrera
Prince
Roy
Tarver
Tsyzu
Oscar
Shane
Tito
Winky
Hopkins
Vargas
Forrest
Calzaghe
Marquez
Freitas
Casamoyer
Castillo
Corrales
Plus manny and wlad on the rise

The blue chip prospects
Juan diaz
cotto
Hatton
Dawson
Taylor

[Combat Talk Radio]

Boxing isn't dead. It's evolved.

No longer is it a place where people go to retire broke (Tommy Hearns), retire paralyzed (Gerald McClellan, Paul Williams), retire brain damaged (Michael Watson, Magomed Abdusalomov), retire bitter (Marvin Hagler) or retire as a combination of the above (Muhammad Ali).

We see much less of people dying under dubious circumstances (Billy Collins Jr, Arturo Gatti, Edwin Valero, Alexis Arguello).

We now have a world where the boxers who entertained us can enjoy their retirement. Yes, that means the fights are less "exciting", but if that means we won't see situations like Dada 5000 happen in a boxing ring, I'm all for it.