These fighters are not carrying themselves as champions..

[u.b.r.]

I don't think it has to do anything with being cool. What other athletes in other sports do you see doing **** like that? They should know how to carry themselves better and not go on the kind of shows Charlie Z or the ones you do. No disrespect to you though, it doesn't have to do anything with you but props to you for actually being able to get them in your show.

Boxing doesn't get the kind of exposure that athletes of most other sports get.

['Sugar' Freddi]

Boxing doesn't get the kind of exposure that athletes of most other sports get.

That is true, but other sports do have athletes who are not very popular, yet I never heard one of them was doing something like this, going on some blog talk radio show that maybe 20-30 people listen to.

Even Mayweather, he's one of the biggest superstars in boxing, yet goes on USTREAM.

[Allucard]

Seriously, you got all these former and current champions going on shows these shows on BlogTalkRadio ( no disrespect to ALLBOXING247 and props to him for contacting them) but they're so desperate for attention. I mean who really cares about those talk shows? Tommy is a former world champion, fought the likes of Lennox Lewis and George Foreman, then he goes on a talk radio show that no one listens to. Then we have a top P4P fighter, Mayweather, going on USTREAM showing his house, etc.

I think all these boxers should know better how to act and carry themselves as champions.

True. The problem is boxing is becoming more and more an underground sport. Who to blame? The rules that were broken, the promoters and last and also least, the fighters.
When they decided they had to create multiple belts and have multiple champions of the world they did something no one will dare to undo. Those bodies make 3 times more money than they used to (or should) and the final result is the belts don't mean jack. Mayweather, probably the best modern fighter fighting the #3 p4p fighter in Mosley FOR NO BELT, simply refusing to take the belt should really have ringed some bells. But it didn't, they don't want to concentrate efforts, they think they make more money not doing so.

If the belts don't mean **** we have less hype, young fighters struggling to make a name and only being able to really establish themselves when they are on the declining curve of their careers and older fighters who no longer can deliver good shows making the main events all the time and making boxing look even worst (Roy vs Bernard for instance). Young fans don't give a crap about what any of those big names did in the 90's and will only need to see one Jones vs Hopkins type of fight to decide they are better of buying the UFC card. And that's what been happening.

One final note: One of the biggest misconceptions in any fighting sport is that fighters what to fight the best to prove themselves. They want to fight the best IF they can't avoid it. If they can fight bums and reach that same popularity spot they would by fighting the best out there, they WILL. This goes for ANY fighter.

[Canelo Phresh]

the ts is a...

[PainKiller]

Honestly freddi, you are a good guy but what is wrong with letting a boxer be human?

We use the net and so do they.

It is never a bad thing to have access to boxers.

The bad thing for boxers is the fact that they can be exposed as fools. Without the net perhaps we woudln't know of them being so, but their circle would.

People can do what they want.

[S.G.]

It's the same in all entertainment industries right now. Your favourite musician or footballer or boxer gets ahold of Twitter and all of a sudden they lose their mystique and you realise what a tosser they really are. I think celebrities need a degree of distance between them and their fans if they want to maintain any degree of credibility, cos most of these people have awful personalities.