2017 - the year to save boxing.

[Bigg Rigg]

Doubt it but I hope it does.

[New England]

Was an amazing card and there are some good fights scheduled, so maybe.


Can we stop though and take a second to ask what the refs were doing in the ring after the knockdowns? Looked like they were administering a sobriety test. I half expected them to ask the fighters to recite the alphabet or some schit.

arthur mercante could have used a standing 8 count last night. and a towel.

[BoxingPugilist]

Someone earlier mentioned this, the problem with boxing losing popularity isn't in the match making or the "lack of stars." It's in fan's accessibility to it and it's ability to garner new followers. While I loath comparisons to MMA - they have a much more fan friendly introduction. Rather than having dozens of promotions, there is one (UFC). Rather than each promotions only promoting their upcoming events or a channel only advertising their network's schedule - the UFC uses every event to hype the next one, be it on Fox, or FS1, or PPV, or where ever. Boxing has 4 alphabet champions, plus The Ring, plus lineal...UFC has one. Easier for the uninitiated to understand the power structure - for goodness sake, boxing has right now 77 different men holding an alphabet title, and yet only like 5 to 10 of them could headline an event on their name recognition alone. I think a lot of us have been around the sport for so long, and we have an appreciation for the nuanced style of it's promotion - for people who are casual fans or new to the sport, it can be a little daunting.

Plus it doesn't help when we have an absolutely amazing fight like the one last night - and because it didn't end the way the promoter (Floyd) wanted he says it was a bad night for boxing in the middle of the broadcast. Can you imagine Dana White saying after one of his fights how it was a bad night for the sport? Arum isn't much better.

Yes, good entertaining fights will help bring back a couple of disenfranchised fans, but until there is a structural shift if the manner in which boxing is promoted, it's going to remain a fringe sport with only a very select few who bring in enough money to keep the entire industry financially worthwhile.

[TheCell8]

Could be. That showtime card was one of the best in recent memory.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Doubt it...

Watch the canelo-Chavez fight get cancelled at last second when Chavez can't make weight, and canelo refuses to fight above contracted weight..

[mlac]

Doubt it...

Watch the canelo-Chavez fight get cancelled at last second when Chavez can't make weight, and canelo refuses to fight above contracted weight..

I don't think the year revolves around whether the Canelo - chavez fight gets made or not lol.

It's a fun sideshow nothing more nothing less.

[BrometheusBob.]

arthur mercante could have used a standing 8 count last night. and a towel.

[bambam182]

come on dude, we all know the sport has been going down the ****ter in the past few years with big fights not being made, fighters being content for big paydays against safe mismatched opponents.

Last night was a huge dose of optimism. Especially considering that godawful pile of doo doo on friday night that no one watched.

Friday night represents where boxing has been going.
Saturday night represents (hopefully) where boxing is and SHOULD be going.

boxing isnt going anywhere. been around for over 100 years. either way, you fans will never be happy. you all claim when a fight isnt made, that one is ducking the other and when the fight is made, you guys get pissed about the scoring.

fighters arent ruining the sport, the fans *****ing and moaning are.

for example everyone said ward was ducking kovalev, and mayweather was ducking pacquiao then they fight and the fans ***** that the fight was boring, scoring was off etc etc. YOU NEW CLASS FANS WILL NEVER BE HAPPY. fighters dont care if you think they are ducking. if waiting 2 years making them 5 million more, they will wait. they dont care. they dont fight to please you guys. they fight for money.

you stupid fans will never be happy. if canelo and GGG fight and its a war where each throws over 1000 punches and GGG and canelo go down 3 times each and their faces are torn apart and the fight is even after 12 rounds. you fa990t fans will start *****ing that the scoring was off and then you will start with your own compbux garbage like the pac-tards claiming your fighter won and if a rematch doesnt happen then one is ducking the other and then you will claim that boxing is dying and blah blah blah.

SHUT THE **** UP ALL YOU IGNORANT DIP **** FANS.

[Keleneki]

Boxing doesn't need saving. It will always be around.

[mlac]

boxing isnt going anywhere. been around for over 100 years. either way, you fans will never be happy. you all claim when a fight isnt made, that one is ducking the other and when the fight is made, you guys get pissed about the scoring.

fighters arent ruining the sport, the fans *****ing and moaning are.

for example everyone said ward was ducking kovalev, and mayweather was ducking pacquiao then they fight and the fans ***** that the fight was boring, scoring was off etc etc. YOU NEW CLASS FANS WILL NEVER BE HAPPY. fighters dont care if you think they are ducking. if waiting 2 years making them 5 million more, they will wait. they dont care. they dont fight to please you guys. they fight for money.

you stupid fans will never be happy. if canelo and GGG fight and its a war where each throws over 1000 punches and GGG and canelo is go down 3 times each and their faces are torn apart and the fight is even after 12 rounds. you fa990t fans will start *****ing that the scoring was off and then you will start with your own compbux garbage like the pac-tards claiming your fighter one and if a rematch doesnt happen then one is ducking the other and then you will claim that boxing is dying and blah blah blah.

SHUT THE **** UP ALL YOU IGNORANT DIP **** FANS.

FYI i never read your posts, you come across as a super weird angry nerdling.

HTH

*insert did not read gif here*