Comments Thread For: Boxing Has To Make it Count

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

With Errol Spence-Danny Garcia being announced we've reached a sort of watershed moment. At some point the big fights must come back. At some point big money is going to have to be spent for big money to be made. Spence and Garcia have signed to fight on Fox PPV on November 21. Garcia is set to be involved in his 10th world title fight while Spence returns for the first time since he diced with death and rolled his sports car in Dallas last October.
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[wrecksracer]

All these PPVs for what I would call "decent" fights. Danny Garcia has never been a great welterweight. As far as I'm concerned, he had been living off what he did at 140 for years. PBC likes to recycle him because he has a recognizable name. One more loss, and he's a gatekeeper. This fight is mainly interesting to see how Spence fights post accident. Is that worth paying for? It will be interesting to see if any of these back to back PPVs are going to sell. Casuals probably won't be buying because these guys are not on the level popularity-wise like Mayweather, Tyson, or Pac were 10-30 years ago.

Add to this that younger boxing fans know how to get free streams of fights. That is not going to disappear. Even an older fan like myself knows how to stream. Quality isn't as good? I grew up watching boxing on a rickety old black and white TV in the early 70s.The only reason I would buy a PPV at this point is if I were throwing a party.

[nino brown21]

the headline says it all. sad to aee that ufc is killing it with views while boxing is struggling to get half a mil views. but I think boxing is digging themselves a grave they soon won't be able to climb out of. paying fighters millions of dollars putting on ****shows. like on the Teddy atlas podcast said people didn't care enough about adkins and you know somethings really going on when they're last 4 episodes have been about ufc lol. teddys dying to talk about boxing but ain't no substance fir him. let's just hope boxing can make it out of this dark hole along with everybody..

[Deleted]

We've been hearing this for how many decades?! Boxing last breath right. That was said when the UFC launched the TUF series in 2005. We all saw where Connor their biggest cash cow ever went to get paid!!

It's like when the kids used to say game consoles are the end of computers, then Ipads spelled the end of computers and after that cell phones where going to kill computers. Guess what computers are still here and are not going anywhere just like boxing!

I like and watch all combat sports. As sad as boxing can be at times, it still has more skilled fighters than the UFC. UK guys seems to understand that they need to learn the basics of boxing, but to many fighters throw punches in a manner that would get them smoked. Other than Anderson Sylva, GSP, Jones, Mighty Mouse and few others there is not much skill and nothing worth paying for PPV. Cormier has skills, but he lost his HW belt in a way that had me rolling on the floor laughing.

UFC's marketing is on point! Plus, they are one entity that promotes and santions the fights. They have the $$ to hype anything like they did with Rousey. Look at the belt they created for Masvidal vs Diaz, I'm more of a boxing guy and I knew Diaz was going to loose and how. COnnor vs Cowboy was the same thing..reminded me of what Don King used to do to his fighters. Cowboy didn't even get 1 milion for the fight since he got 400k with bonuses and Connor got 3 millions plus... all for a fight where the other guy had 0 chance....not that much different form boxing is it?!

Boxing's business model is broken, but greed wont allow things to change.

[The D3vil]

There's no way in hell I'd pay for Spence/Garcia.

And I'm sorry, all of us are working for less than what we used to, boxers are no better than the rest of us.

It's better to make a few mil in a pandemic, rather than make fxck all, and hope that the government bails us out with $600 from unemployment

[tokon]

The reality is that the big earners are going to have to take a pay cut.