Boxing has to be the only sport where fans root for it to fail

[Clegg]

For sure there are a lot of fanboys on here. Sucking off fighters is bad enough, people need to learn to be fans without white knighting for another grown man who doesn't know they exist. But at least I can appreciate fans getting passionate for their favourite fighter, when they do it for promoters/managers/networks it's weird/sad.

But to give a sensible explanation for it, boxing has more cherry-picking than any sport and has seen more legends screwed over financially than any sport. When Calzaghe left Warren, Warren declared his company out of business and started a new one to avoid paying him for the Hopkins fight and had to be sued before finally paying up. Not surprising fans are hostile to promoters they consider suspect when things like that still go on. Cherry picking and mismatch fights are the worst things about boxing so when a promoter is seen as favouring these even more than the rest do it's understandable to hope they fail and their top fighters go elsewhere.

[Lion81]

I can spot these fans a mile off and they don't go to the events either. That's clear to see. I think most of them want boxing to go away because their interest in the sport goes away when their fighter does. Some stick around a cling onto another guy but with less passion and eventually goes to a different sport. I've watched boxing long enough and interacted enough with online fans to have seen this.

Pacuiao fans...

[daggum]

if the ppv does good you will get more ppvs
if it does bad you will get less ppvs

larry you have literally wasted i mean spent thousands of dollars watching floyd fights in your life. is this why you defend him so much? buyers remorse? why would you want to pay for such a crappy product? the under card is complete and utter sh-ite and the main event is laughable. he's fighting an incompetent guy who looks like a complete bum. why would you want that to succeed? so you can get more ****** fights? even if you supported the horrible ppv system at least get a good fight like crawford-spence or canelo-ggg. the question you should be asking is why should we support every single ppv even if its complete crap? pay for good things. avoid crap things.

[sicko]

Very True but I've also learned over the years to NEVER EVER take anything posted on this forum serious especially from guys with New Accounts that says "Joined: November 2018" and they jump on this forum making back to back to back Threads

But yeah this is why PBC, GBP, Top Rank, Matchroom USA/DAZN focus should be building NEW FANS! I wouldn't even waste time listening to the current "Hardcore Boxing Fans" because despite our complaining we're still going to watch whatever they give us because we can't help it. They all need to focus on reaching New fans and especially the Casual Sports Fan who actually have the money to buy tickets and PPV's and is not in the Comment Thread fight night asking for a Link

[The D3vil]

That's because boxing is the most broken up, ***********al sport it is in it's make up. Every other sport has a cohesive league that controls it.

Basketball=NBA
Baseball=MLB
Footbal=NFL
Soccer=Champions League
Golf=PGA/LPGA
Tennis=WTA/ATP
MMA=UFC/Bellator

Boxing is just so split up and there's never anything definitive in it. There's no definitive champions (unless they unify all belts), there's a ton of weight classes, promoters, bullshxt judges & refs.

No other sport makes you suffer like boxing does and it leads to bitter ass fans.

Plus, it's primal, which makes it easy for racists and nationalists to latch on to it.

[Jsmooth9876]

S H I T fights shouldn't cost us $75, so yeah, I hope it fking bombs and the whole PPV model is not far behind it.

[Eff Pandas]

That's because boxing is the most broken up, ***********al sport it is in it's make up. Every other sport has a cohesive league that controls it.

Basketball=NBA
Baseball=MLB
Footbal=NFL
Soccer=Champions League
Golf=PGA/LPGA
Tennis=WTA/ATP
MMA=UFC/Bellator

Boxing is just so split up and there's never anything definitive in it. There's no definitive champions (unless they unify all belts), there's a ton of weight classes, promoters, bullshxt judges & refs.

No other sport makes you suffer like boxing does and it leads to bitter ass fans.

Plus, it's primal, which makes it easy for racists and nationalists to latch on to it.

I think this is pretty on point.

Boxing isn't anything like other sports. Hating another promoter or platform would be more akin to NFL fans hating on that USFL league back in the day or a WWE fan hating on NWA back in the day.

[Bobby Deez]

It's just like, you get sick of all these weird fights, rankings, corrupt score cards, promoter beefs, this guy won't fight this guy etc.


I don't think any of us want to see boxing fail but **** has to annoy you eventually.

yup. One hundy, bro.