2017 - the year to save boxing.

[mlac]

just finished watching aleem - krytrov..great fight.

What a fantastic night of boxing, a new star being born in Davis, in a fantastic fight.

And a FOTY in only the 2nd week of January in a CLASSIC with Degale v Jack.

In the first half of the year we have:

No.1 Vs No.2 At Middleweight.

rematch of last year's FOTY in frampton and Leo

2 elite unbeaten Welterweights fighting

SURELY the Heavyweights will have to fight each other? SURELY!?

2017 is shaping up nicely.

If the coked up cross-dresser delivers Canelo V Golovkin and there is a unification fight at HW we could be looking at the best year in boxing in a very long time,.....which our sport desperately needs.

[Prince Madison]

i really hope so. Feel like mr grumpy on here but im grumpy cause boxing was a steaming puddle of horse piss last year. THeres great fighters out there and some great match ups to be made. Does concern me though how the circus fights are gradually starting to be announced now though with the usual suspects- wilder v warzyk, pacquiao v horn, cotto v kirkland. I wouldnt count on the heavyweights fighting each other apart from joshua v kiltscko.

[bambam182]

boxing isnt going anywhere you ****ing morons.

[BrometheusBob.]

Was an amazing card and there are some good fights scheduled, so maybe.


Can we stop though and take a second to ask what the refs were doing in the ring after the knockdowns? Looked like they were administering a sobriety test. I half expected them to ask the fighters to recite the alphabet or some schit.

[Eff Pandas]

Save boxing lol.

Boxing can certainly do better than its been doing, but its more about the structure of the sport being altered to a more fan friendly model in acquiring new viewers not just in the fights being made & lol again at saving boxing like a entire sport is going anywhere.

[BoxingIsGreat]

Was an amazing card and there are some good fights scheduled, so maybe.


Can we stop though and take a second to ask what the refs were doing in the ring after the knockdowns? Looked like they were administering a sobriety test. I half expected them to ask the fighters to recite the alphabet or some schit.

Yeah, that thing is strange and takes away from a fighter's momentum. That ringside doctor was doing it too. Not cool. They should get rid of it.

[mlac]

Save boxing lol.

Boxing can certainly do better than its been doing, but its more about the structure of the sport being altered to a more fan friendly model in acquiring new viewers not just in the fights being made & lol again at saving boxing like a entire sport is going anywhere.

come on dude, we all know the sport has been going down the ****ter in the past few years with big fights not being made, fighters being content for big paydays against safe mismatched opponents.

Last night was a huge dose of optimism. Especially considering that godawful pile of doo doo on friday night that no one watched.

Friday night represents where boxing has been going.
Saturday night represents (hopefully) where boxing is and SHOULD be going.

[Zaryu]

Boxing needs a solid system that keeps fighters active, make the best fight the best, and make use of solid platforms to make the fights available to its target market.

Basically, boxing just needs to be boxing, and be available to its fan. 2017 looks promising, but the real way to keep the sport mainstream is by letting it play out how it's supposed to.

[Eff Pandas]

Friday night represents where boxing has been going.
Saturday night represents (hopefully) where boxing is and SHOULD be going.

Its not as simple as that. Boxing has far too many moving parts & too many people with skin in the game for the best to fight the best on any consistent basis. Boxing needs an entire collapse &/or restructuring of the sport to be able to compete with the other sports & other entertainment that we all have competing for our time & dollar these day. Boxing will always have the Friday caliber fights & the Saturday caliber cards you bring up, but it needs to have a change at a deeper level than any two fighters, promoters or networks deciding to work together for one fight for Saturday caliber cards to become cards that happen as often as they should be.

[mlac]

Its not as simple as that. Boxing has far too many moving parts & too many people with skin in the game for the best to fight the best on any consistent basis. Boxing needs an entire collapse &/or restructuring of the sport to be able to compete with the other sports & other entertainment that we all have competing for our time & dollar these day. Boxing will always have the Friday caliber fights & the Saturday caliber cards you bring up, but it needs to have a change at a deeper level than any two fighters, promoters or networks deciding to work together for one fight for Saturday caliber cards to become cards that happen as often as they should be.

can you kindly stop with the logic and facts and join me in my blind optimism FFS?