What's Your Opinion On The Current State Of Boxing.

[P.K Dionysus]

Yes. I wish Pacman stayed gone. Bradley is a solid scalp for any of the top guys. But top rank still seems to want to keep his fights in house. Plus Bradley may still be able to beat a couple of his fellow ww contemporaries.

I second both those statements.

On a different note, that girl in the Adidas kit is BAD. Who is she?

[Fetta]

Said last year that the retirement of may and pac will send boxing into a lul. Here we are. 1 star with many still building.

Can you imagine the crap some of tge old ATG would have got if social media existed.

1 umbrella

[casheddie]

don't forget about the ****ty over priced ppvs like ****nelo vs smith and fights being over marinated.hell you can make a top 100 problems in boxing.

Yeah plus boxers getting high paydays off fighting #20 fighters

[Bushbaby]

I second both those statements.

On a different note, that girl in the Adidas kit is BAD. Who is she?

The 1st lady of boxing Cecelia Breaukus.

[ruedboy]

The state of boxing is pretty dismal. In the US the top guys don't fight each other and they don't fight enough.
I'd be curious to know if it's the same in other countries like Germany and Russia.
I've watched British boxers like Smith and Brook and they seem to be handled like US fighters. That is, fatten up on the cans. avoid any threat, protect the 0 and land the mega fight that puts you on EZ street
If I was Supreme Commander, I'd disband the alphabets, have one governing body, one title for each division and a unified ranking system based on clear rules. Finally I'd create a retirement system for boxers using a % of the promoter's profits.
I don't see that happening in this century but hey maybe The Donald...?

[sicko]

How would you rescue or rebuild boxing once rock bottom has been hit?

Personally, I would streamline the number belts, and create situations in which the top boxers are more or less forced into action. Create a tournament/league of sorts for every weight class, have the contenders fight, gain "points", fight the champ at the end. Perhaps two or "leagues" per weight class/governing body, and upon the conclusion of the "leagues", there is a... decider in which the champs fight each other. IBO v IBF, WBA v WBO in semis, then the winners of those fight each other in a final.

That way, there is constant interest, because we have people keeping score, we have top rated contenders fighting each other with some semblance of regularity to climb up the standings/ratings and become champs, etc.

Might be a logistical nightmare, but it would force the best to fight each other, and we wouldn't be forced to have champs fighting in made up weight classes and the like.

As crazy as it sound and most boxing fans wont like but I do think they have to TAKE From the UFC and YES 1 Belt in each Division is a great place to start. It is too many LEECHES in boxing and the LEECHES have ****** boxing DRY. So 1 Belt each Division is needed, always been a fan of the WBC Belt, the rest never really cared about them and I still don't. If Boxing is never going to come under 1 Governing Body then all promoters need to Unify and start working together!

Also VIDEO GAMES, it is hard to reach a younger Demographic when you have NO Boxing Videos Games that features Today's Fighters. I don't know a Sport that doesn't have a successful video game to be honest beside BOXING! Yet they wonder why they don't reach that younger Demographic

[lopetego]

Boxing is in a dismal state because of Mayweather

he single handily destroyed the sport by becoming the biggest cash cow in the sport

by doing it through ducking and cherrypicking, denying us the matches we wanted to see when they mattered and giving us overpriced PPV in snoozefests against tailor made no hopers instead

now every fighter with a name wants the most $$$$ with the least amount of effort ans sacrifice. everybody wants to be paid millions for fighting bums

Floyd's actions also provoked the networks war, and the GB-Top Rank feud, that are still damaging the sport even more. and he started the whole hypocritic antidoping circus

No man has ever done as much damage to the sport as Floyd

Floyd. The man who killed boxing

[juggernaut666]

Agreed. HW is looking tasty these days. AJ is one of my fav current boxers, and I'm a massive fan a HW who actually LOOKS like a professional athlete, as opposed to a guy like Teper or whatever, who knocked Price out. I'm genuinely looking forward to future HW scraps.

Most of the haters are non athletes themselves,those who are as is usually flock with that group...Ive noticed many out of shape ppl almost always root for Fury...NOT everyone.

if most posters ever actually were ever in a boxing gym alone we would have a better perspective on most posts but than again it wouldn't be a forum then because without the nuts there would be no conversations or interest in the conversations....

im not sure what constitutes a boring or dead era ,it certainly isn't this one.