What can we do to help women's boxing?

[Eff Pandas]

i always used to be shocked at how few registered female boxers there are. talking 1-5 in the entire country or less, some weight classes with less than 50 pro boxers registered in the entire world.

Yea the amount of females in some divisions is embarrassing.

As of today the active boxers in some divisions:

HW (200+) 33 girls
CW (200) 0 girls
LHW (175) 0 girls
SMW (168) 29 girls
MW (160) 37 girls
JMW (154) 47 girls


The three biggest female divisions:

FlyW (112) 181 girls
FW (126) 136 girls
BW (118) 129 girls

[Eff Pandas]

Women's boxing is just getting started

Thats not true women's boxing has had ups & downs in the past. Christy Martin was the first female boxier I remember seeing getting attention back in the day (mid 90's til early 00's). Then things transitioned to Laila Ali when she came around. Ali had the torched passed to her via a W over Martin + had a PPV fight vs Joe Frazier's daughter (think it did around 100k buys). Then after she left in 2007 its been dead ever since.

Now they are trying to reboot womans boxing at the more mainstream level Martin & Ali reached off of the Olympic girls who've been able to make names for themselves + I believe the success MMA has had with female fighters.

Problem is it took Martin YEARS to first get attention & Ali had her name + the ability to get the rub from beating Martin. And these girls where knocking b^tches out. Ali ended her career with a 24-0 (21) record. Martin ended her career at 49-7-3 (31).

Meanwhile the leading names around today can't punch for sh^t.

Cecilia Braekhus, 32-0 (9)
Christina Hammer, 22-0 (10)
Heather Hardy, 20-0 (4)
Katie Taylor, 8-0 (4)
Claressa Shields, 5-0 (2)
Nicola Adams, 3-0 (2), she's the only one looking like she can hit thus far, but she's

And people like their KO's. And people who aren't big KO punchers often lack in exciting the public on the mens side so its a solid bet to do the same on the womens side since there is no evidence there is some game changing huge audience of females watching female boxing that could alter the standard of what excites fans.

[Johnston]

Get rid of it, the promotional companies are wasting money with hoping it can catch some of the success the UFC had with women. It just won't work, they're two different sports

[juggernaut666]

Start a Drag - Boxing league . Then people will be clamouring for the real thing more and more .

[GhostofDempsey]

Loser has to eat out the winner.

[Beercules]

Honestly nothing. On a boxing forum where guys spend 5 years of their life arguing about what floyd said to a guy in a urinal we see maybe 1 thread about women's boxing per year. The market isn't there.

I can see the "gender is a lie! male privilege!" fanatics being interested in it for a day then finding out you have to exercise and get your nose broken then that'll be over too.

Very true

[Beercules]

Loser has to eat out the winner.

What if the losers mouth is all bloody doe? Wouldn't be into that.

[Eff Pandas]

Loser has to eat out the winner.

Y'all clearly ain't seen some of these truck driving looking girls. I wouldn't wanna see them chew gum with their manly looking a$$es let alone eat out some other lumberjack looking chick.

[GhostofDempsey]

Y'all clearly ain't seen some of these truck driving looking girls. I wouldn't wanna see them chew gum with their manly looking a$$es let alone eat out some other lumberjack looking chick.

At least half of them would probably throw the fight just so they could lick on the winner.

[M Bison]

Women's boxing is really suffering right now we just lost a good exciting fighter in Heather Hardy due to lack of attention and pay issues (not enough money) How can this problem get fixed?

Let it die, I much prefer watching female MMA it's much more entertaining.