Comments Thread For: Jake Paul's Trainer Wants Him To Box an MMA Fighter Next

[Dakuwaqa]

Most MMA fighters can’t box for toffee.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Boxing is becoming more of a farce than ever. Legitimate Fighters struggle for years to rise in the rankings and then this youtube guy gets on PPV. It's funny but celebrity boxing (Todd Bridges vs Vanilla Ice) , exhibition fights (Tyson vs Jones) and crossover fights (boxers vs MMA) are more popular than real fights.

Yeah the sports a joke now. I’m becoming ashamed of it.

Imagine the Charles Barkley going one on one with Shaq or LeBron going one on one with a Youtuber was drawing more interest than the NBA playoffs.

Our sport is becoming a soap opera.

[JLC]

Definitely. Everything here is so true. And it’s a shame because people always say, “it brings more Fans to the sport” but these YouTuber Nerds who watch these fight aren’t interested in really knowing true boxing. It’s not about how you score a fight or how a boxer looks on the eye test. To them it’s all about the bragging rights. There’s a winner and a loser and that’s it. If I make any sense? They literally contribute nothing to boxing. Always admired Floyd, but like fighting Logan Paul? It’s like he sees Tyson Jones and got jealous that he’s not in the limelight. He’s killing the sport. Claims he wants fighters to surpass him. Yeah right. Tank- Santa Cruz All Access was all about mayweather been a promoter and he’s got PPV Records. Give me a break. These fights ain’t worth gaining maybe 10,000 new fans at the Most.

I don’t get how this hurts the sport though. Those who want to watch, watch.. those who are only interested because it’s a YouTube guy will tune in for that one fight and move on.

It’s not like the fan base for this is passing up on the next real boxing PPV fight because they decided to spend their money on this instead.

If anything, these fights have a chance to bring in more fans if they have a good real boxing scrap on the undercard. I got into boxing flipping thru channels one day and came across James Toney V Samuel Peter. Been watching it, buying PPVs, and buying floor seats to boxing ever since.

[Dr. Frank]

they say boxing is a business disguised as a sport

What disguise?

[GGG Gloveking]

Looks like he ducking Clarissa