Comments Thread For: Frank Warren on Boxing Getting Shorted By The Print Media

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

The sport of boxing can rarely have been more buoyant in this country, with home fighters galore in possession of world championship belts. With that in mind, it remains a source of bemusement to me that the fight game still struggles to capture the imagination of the print media.
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[SugarRayCurtain]

If it werent for boxing forums I wouldnt even know wtf happens in boxing
A year after Lewis retired and I wasnt a boxing fan I assumed he was still champion

[Gjh92]

I agree that theres not enough boxing news printed. Dont think its footballs fault tho. Its all these ****** celebrity tabloid pages that take up the paper nowadays. I dont really care if ryan gosling is working out for a new movie or katy perry is in an twitter row with taylor swift.

[SteveM]

I agree that theres not enough boxing news printed. Dont think its footballs fault tho. Its all these ****** celebrity tabloid pages that take up the paper nowadays. I dont really care if ryan gosling is working out for a new movie or katy perry is in an twitter row with taylor swift.

You, me and millions of others. It is force fed down our throats and after a while many people become brain-washed with it. The dumbing down of society to suit the elites.

[leather gloves]

I agree that theres not enough boxing news printed. Dont think its footballs fault tho. Its all these ****** celebrity tabloid pages that take up the paper nowadays. I dont really care if ryan gosling is working out for a new movie or katy perry is in an twitter row with taylor swift.

I agree with you but atleast the names you mentioned have talent. What about all those talentless reality tv stars hogging up all the news? It's a joke mate.

[ultravividscene]

Personally i think the biggest obstacle to boxing being reported on in the mainstream press is it's fractured nature, due in the main to promoters and television channels making exclusive deals and having interests only in those boxers under their umbrella. Fisheyes is of course just as much to blame as the media he is chastising for the lack of widespread coverage.

Why not offer the fights you own the rights to for a nominal sum for free to air tv to show a week or two after they have taken place? Dish out a few highlights packages for free every now and again and put on more fights, more regularly and i'm sure you'll see interests perk.

Undercard fights that aren't televised by the major networks, get them out there on free to air. There are reasons that fans complain 'who has this guy fought, i've never heard of him, he's gotta be a chump' and the only buzz is about those at the very top of the game or are on a recent decline from it.

As it stands it's actually really quite hard and unbelievably expensive to follow televised boxing in its entirety and it's only down to news collation sites like this one that fans have any chance of keeping up with the sport at all.

[GMAN SUPREME]

this has been going for a very long time.boxing is not a main stream sport anymore.