What is happening to this sport?

[GGG Gloveking]

Lil G towel boys ruining the game.

Do you do ANYTHING besides try to bash Golovkin all day?

[Golden Boi 360]

thread gets made every other week

too many belts, too many weight classes, best not fighting the best, UFC, etc

[boxinghead530]

is that you in the photo? you look a lottt like someone i know.

You frequent that same gay bath house too? Oops shoot I said to much.

[pacmanis1]

I agree this has been a really bad year and isn't looking to get much better, but people have been saying boxing is dying forever. Currently people blame Haymon for overpaying fighters, however just a few years ago people were complaining how HBO was overpaying Berto. I will admit though, it seems to be the worst year since I started watching a decade ago.

[Motorcity Cobra]

Patience young grasshopper. Showtime is on track to have as many fights this fall/winter as they had last fall/winter. The Molina-D. Garcia & Cuellar-Mares card was leaked today. The Joshua fight is in November. GGG-Jacobs is happening either on HBO or Sho. If next week passes without any announcements that's when I'll get worried.

[Scipio2009]

PBC has 3 cards on its schedule (low-level FS1 and Bounce TV cards).
HBO has 2 cards on its schedule (both PPV).
Showtime doesn't have any cards on its schedule excluding low-level ShoBox cards.

Hard to get excited about a sport that has one fight of any meaning on it schedule (Kovalev-Ward) and it costs $70 at that.

http://www.premierboxingchampions.com/boxing-schedule
http://www.hbo.com/boxing/fights/
http://www.sho.com/sports/fights

The schedule is likely to fill in but NFL/NCAAF is nothing to play with, so I don't doubt that the shows will be carefully placed.

Still, before you write off boxing, let some fights materialize; Stevenson-Alvarez, Charlo-Williams, Danny Garcia's next fight, possibly Thurman's mandatory defense, Mikey Garcia's next fight, Andrade's fight in Germany, and a host of other fights need to find placement in the Fall/Winter.

You add the likelihood that Wilder is back by January, in addition to the fights coming from Mathroom Sport (Degale-Jack, Burns-Broner, etc), and the schedule will be fine.

September/October is basically the meat of the season, the schedule should be cleared up come late October/November, and the year closes out strong.

[Adam Kirchstein]

Do you do ANYTHING besides try to bash Golovkin all day?

Do you do ANYTHING besides try to ride Lil Gina all day?

[GGG Gloveking]

Do you do ANYTHING besides try to ride Lil Gina all day?

First off dude, save that gay sounding shiz for someone else. Im asking a serious question. All Ive seen you do is bad mouth GGG in every single post and start threads doing the same. Secondly, Im a fan and not just a hater. Im a fan of boxing and fighters that I like include GGG, Kovalev, Wilder, Luiz Ortiz, Bud Crawford, Thurman, Chocolatito, and others. I like guys that can bang. I dont just sit here and bash one guy all day every day like you.

I mean, I cant even tell who you like in this sport. Besides your avatar of you wearing some overpriced Floyd gear, I cant even tell if you're a fan of the sport or not. It's people like you that are part of the problem. Rather than support your favorite fighter, rather than build something up, youd rather try to tear something down. Boxing is falling apart as it is already, we dont need people like you helping to tear it down further

[Basco]

Lil G towel boys ruining the game.

I really hope that pic in your avatar is not you.

[Citizen Koba]

PBC has 3 cards on its schedule (low-level FS1 and Bounce TV cards).
HBO has 2 cards on its schedule (both PPV).
Showtime doesn't have any cards on its schedule excluding low-level ShoBox cards.

Hard to get excited about a sport that has one fight of any meaning on it schedule (Kovalev-Ward) and it costs $70 at that.

http://www.premierboxingchampions.com/boxing-schedule
http://www.hbo.com/boxing/fights/
http://www.sho.com/sports/fights

Ah, I see. You mean 'what is happening to the sport in the US'? Yeah. Nobodies' watching and the top fighters want paydays which the networks can't or won't sustain. To be fair I think it's pretty much business as usual in the global sport as a whole though.