Shows you how unpopular is Deontay Wilder. The heavyweight champ had not even half of that rating on FOX in his last fight.
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Originally posted by turnedup View PostIt's good for boxing but PBC needs at least half this number on basic cable where its having trouble breaking in. I hope they continue the success of this and turn the corner financially because it's nice to have boxing on regular tv again, most fans on this site aren't old enough to remember what it was like when this was the norm.
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Originally posted by Butch.McRae View PostThe biggest problem with boxing are the fans who've been brainwashed to kill a sport they love with blind negativity.
Fans have been as polarized as Dems and **********s for the last 5-10 years with the Floyd- Manny and Haymon - Arum trash.
It finally seems like these competitive PBC/Showtime fights and the lack of HBO content is starting to unite fans around quality boxing.
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Originally posted by BWC View PostHonestly seems HBO boxing is folding tents. Canelo seems to be their only real star anymore with Joshua, Wilder, Spence, Thurman, etc all Showtime/PBC fighters. Canelo and GBP might be forced to PBC soon..
These are the fighters that they currently feature
Alvarez, Cotto, Crawford, Golovkin, Gonzalez, Kovalev, Lomachenko, Pacquiao, Ward.
3 are the biggest draws in boxing, and 7 are listed on pretty much every pound for pound list. I think HBO has decided to only focus on televised fights that bring high viewership/action like Lemieux vs Stevens, and/or PPV draws (aside from Arum setting up Pac mismatches). As long as GBP and Top Rank continue to build stars, HBO will continue to buy them. Remains to be seen if they can get any deals done with PBC fighters, but for what it's worth, they already have Daniel Jacobs listed on their roster.
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Originally posted by ShoulderRoll View PostThis shows that people are still interested in boxing, as long as it's a good matchup.
As for the fight being underwhelming...hey, this is live sports. Sometimes that happens. Not every Super Bowl is awesome. Not every English Premier League match leaves the crowds breathless.
There's no sporting activity in the world that is exciting 100% of the time. We need to stop holding boxing to impossible standards.
My thing is that too many people claim boxing is dying or its a niche sport. Maybe making the ring 10ft from now on would be a solution. Gives fighters less room to flee and theyll engage more? Im all for hit and dont get hit, but doing it in a 10ft ring would be dope
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Originally posted by -Hyperion- View PostHopefully the casuals weren't put off by the overhype and the way the second half of the fight was so pathetic with one fighter coasting and the other unwilling to risk anything to make the comeback happen.
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Originally posted by mrlopez View PostCo-sign.
My thing is that too many people claim boxing is dying or its a niche sport. Maybe making the ring 10ft from now on would be a solution. Gives fighters less room to flee and theyll engage more? Im all for hit and dont get hit, but doing it in a 10ft ring would be dope
Think about is this way - do guys trade more when they're near the ropes, or when they're at the centre of the ring?
Also, if you want evidence, BKB is basically this idea where they halved the area of the ring and made it into a circle. Just watch BKB 2 rosado vs stevens where two action fighters fought very cautiously despite being in 2 min rounds. Honestly, it makes Thurman - Garcia look much better.
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