How Does Boxing Get Sexy To Casual Fans Again

**hectari** · 10-05-2018, 12:09 PM

by doing what ufc did, heavy promotion building personalities and social media activity directed toward the youth and shows like embedded.

**MasterPlan** · 10-05-2018, 12:24 PM

Getting on regular TV and Sportscenter.
All other sports have little segments on SC for players. Not boxing unless it's May-Pac or a former boxer like Tyson or Sugar Ray.

What about a segment on the Charlo's or Bud Crawford?

**dannnnn** · 10-05-2018, 12:32 PM

Having regular competitive fights - i.e. not a card full of showcase/mismatch fights to pad records - on either free TV or subscription services with the most viewers. Kind of like what PBC attempted, but with competitive fights from the get-go.

Get those on every Saturday afternoon or evening and catch the casual audience's attention out of sheer convenience.

**New England** · 10-05-2018, 12:36 PM

Originally posted by Eff Pandas

Eddie Hearn was on the Chris Mannix podcast this morning talking about a various range of topics. One of those topics was discussing how in the UK casual fans have been whats grown Matchroom into the force they are today there.

He mentioned this is what he & others need to be doing in the US to have success. I agree with him.

How do you think you get US casual boxing fans (& even sports fans) invested in boxing again like they used to be back in the day on a regular basis & like they were more just a couple decades back to a greater degree then they are now?

Who do you think is the most successful at reaching casual fans today without it being dependent on the big name fighter drawing the casuals in? Why are they having whatever level of casual success they are having do you think?

they have a completely different climate and culture regarding recreation and sports over there. people work less, take more vacation, it's just a different part of the world. it's europe. it's very casual, it's more about the drinking and nationalism than it is about the competition.

fights in las vegas are antying but casual. they offered tickets to joshua - povetkin for about 60-70 bucks. i paid about 1200 each to see floyd fight canelo. i wasn't in the back row, but believe me, there were better seats! there were entire sections that cost 5-10 grand a seat and they sold out fast!

biggest way to shift from that kind of market into the european / eddie model is to take fights out of las vegas and put them into stadiums. best thing for that are HW. i've been to lots of boxing matches, never in a major outdoor stadium but in big venues for sure and in the bleachers, and you can't see what the f#ck is going on unless somebody is getting his ass kicked when the FW are out there. the HW look much, much better from the bleachers. ****, you can HEAR those shots sometimes literally over the crowd.

**Abovetheclouds** · 10-05-2018, 12:37 PM

Sweet Caroline

**Eff Pandas** · 10-05-2018, 12:41 PM

Originally posted by dannnnn

Having regular competitive fights - i.e. not a card full of showcase/mismatch fights to pad records - on either free TV or subscription services with the most viewers. Kind of like what PBC attempted, but with competitive fights from the get-go.

Get those on every Saturday afternoon or evening and catch the casual audience's attention out of sheer convenience.

I definitely agree with this & this is something that can be done if guys just decide to do it tomorrow. The % of non-competitive fights is one of the biggest differences between boxing & most every sport as I see it.

As a cat who's known to bet from time to time I've looked at the betting lines in everything a sportsbook is offering & boxing is the only thing that'll regularly have -3000 favorites in "big fights".

If another sport has a -500 money line bet its rare. Even the UFC & random MMA leagues you'll rarely see the line go past -1000 for the favorite. To me that illustrates exactly what you are saying. People wanna see athletes competing in competitive events whatever that event happens to be.

I think maybe boxing has decided that fans wanna see a KO more or something along with the drive towards making a name guy vs making a good fight being the main incentive by promoters.

**Mike D** · 10-05-2018, 12:44 PM

hot strippers pole dancing between rounds at each corner of the ring

**Eff Pandas** · 10-05-2018, 12:44 PM

Originally posted by Abovetheclouds

Sweet Caroline

I agree we need a 7th inning stretch type boxing song in the US like they got in the UK, but as a proponent of the US national anthem being Jump Around from House of Pain I propose the song be Jump Around.

**PsychoPat** · 10-05-2018, 12:51 PM

Originally posted by Eff Pandas

Eddie Hearn was on the Chris Mannix podcast this morning talking about a various range of topics. One of those topics was discussing how in the UK casual fans have been whats grown Matchroom into the force they are today there.

He mentioned this is what he & others need to be doing in the US to have success. I agree with him.

How do you think you get US casual boxing fans (& even sports fans) invested in boxing again like they used to be back in the day on a regular basis & like they were more just a couple decades back to a greater degree then they are now?

Who do you think is the most successful at reaching casual fans today without it being dependent on the big name fighter drawing the casuals in? Why are they having whatever level of casual success they are having do you think?

By having some transsexual boxing league, with Oscar dela hoya singing entrance songs getting mariachi band members to shove things up his poo pipe so he hits them high notes with ease.

How Does Boxing Get Sexy To Casual Fans Again