The real reason boxing has gone to ****..

[All in]

To many damn in house fights..you have to be with a certain promoter to get certain fights...its bull****....All fighters should be able to fight all other fighters without any obstacles..then on top of that you have the network issues....WTF????

Promoters and Networks have single handily ****ted all over the sport i love..people who never laced up or even owned a damn pair of gloves have done this....We sit on here and argue all damn day while they extort and use boxers and **** us as fans over and over an over again..

Agree with all of that but I still think boxing is suffering more because of are failures in the Olympics. All of our stars were born there and because of are failures we have lost all of the casual fans who watch the Olympics.

[Santa_]

The sooner HBO fighters sign with Haymon the better. Boxing will surely pick itself back up when that happens.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Fans should take control of the sport by not watching clear mismatches or paying for PPVs (unless the participants on said card are top flight fighters).

The only PPV worthy card this year is Kovalev vs Ward.

[Jsmooth9876]

Don't forget about the boxers themselves that are content to just fight mediocre opponents every time out rather than see who the best is and fight the other champs and best fighters in their divisions... Whatever happened to wanting to prove you were the best?

[Luilun]

Boxing hit rocked bottom on May 2nd 2015 it's going to take the top prospects to start fighting each other to get out of it but Floyd made a Blue print avoid the top guns till they age or beat the crap out of each other

[BoxingExpress]

Boxing has gotten better, are you crazy?

Floyd is retired, thank god.
Wlad is out, Fury is amazing.

Kovalev verse Ward later this year. Glowacki vs Usyk.

[Madison Boxing]

Don't forget about the boxers themselves that are content to just fight mediocre opponents every time out rather than see who the best is and fight the other champs and best fighters in their divisions... Whatever happened to wanting to prove you were the best?

its gone out of fashion. Boxers are more desperate to prove they are the A side, and deserve a higher purse than the opponent, rather than actually prove they are a better fighter

[R_Walken]

Is everyone done with the tears

The best never fought the best back to back to back its a fallacy it gets made when it makes financial sense. You look at any greats career and they only have a handful of meaningful big fights, Boxing is a business first and a sport second and since there's a whole bunch of different businesses all trying to make $ Your not going to get everyone on the same page holding hands singing Kumbaya. Everyone only looking out for their best interest. Boxing hasn't recently gone to sh.it it's always been sh.it. part sport part business part entertainment with a dash of circus & corruption all rolled together to make a heaping pile of sh.it.

But I follow it because I accept that pile of sh.it for what it is. Some fights happen some don't. Any given year there's only a handful of big fights because of how the business is set up and how rarely the top echelon fighters fight. But if your a fan of the sport this year there's been almost a decent fight(s) every week to keep you entertained with a decent amount of the best fighting the best a couple upsets and in November Ward/KOVs happening to see who the best in the sport is

Fans need to quit being negative b.itches who ramantisize the past . Boxing used to be the major sport so what so was horse racing it still generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year through out the world and is competing with probably 50 other sports and hundreds of different leagues. The NFL is the biggest league going right now and if your a casual and not aligned with a certain team the NFL might have 5 - 10decent intriguing big games for the year if your a fan of football then there's hundreds of games to watch but you'll be watching more Clevland / Jacksonville type of games then top tier match ups

Fighters have been avoided since the begining for a variety of reasons. Jack Johnson waited years,Murderers Row, Lamotta , Hagler & Macallum were avoided, Rocky avoided Clubber Lang , Sh.it Rigos getting avoided right now and you can go on and on. There's always been different entity's who didn't do business with each other. This goes back as far as the sport.

Can boxing improve, **** yeah there's a whole bunch of ways to do it bt this moaning , crying and threats of boycotts is lame. You don't like it don't watch it no ones putting a gun to your head on a Saturday and I doubt when you first started following the sport there was great matchups being made every week if your a casual there's probably only a handfull of fights that will grab your attention if your a hardcore junkie there's literally hundreds of cards that you can watch pick and choose

Sorry for the novel.

[HEND]

I doN't think it's gone **** and I'm pretty tired of listening the complains all the time

yeah, boxing has it's problem it always had, it has pretty much the same problems now as it ever had only the circumstances are different

We got many good fights this year and we will get even more

I know that there's no such thing to make a boxing fan satisfied but at least let's try to be just a little more positive.

[-Freddy-]

Boxing may not be as big as it once was in the US and there's a number of reasons for this e.g. UFC taking a chunk of the fight pie.

However in other parts of the world like the UK, boxing is thriving it hasn't been so good.