What effect will this break have on boxing and individual boxers?

When things get back to somewhat normal.... what effect, if any, will this break have had on boxing in general and on fighters in particular?

• Will social distancing measures remain in arenas/venues?
• Will cornermen, referees, and others in close promixity wear masks? Will it be obligatory?
• What fighters have continued training and sparring? What fighters have not?
• What impact will this have on televised and/or streamed fights?
• Will boxing in general become more popular? Less? No change?

I'd be in favor of social distancing as well as other measures in arenas/venues for awhile. It's not gonna kill anyone to watch fights with a mask on and occupying every other seat.

I'd also be in favor of obligatory masks for corner people and referees.

I'm hoping against hope that mainstream TV recommits to boxing. It's not like jammed baseball/soccer/football stadiums are coming right back. There's profits to be made from boxing if handled properly by the networks.

For the same reasons, I'd think a sports-hungry public would "flock" (figuratively speaking, of course ;D ) to a well-managed boxing comeback.

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Originally Posted by TitoFan

When things get back to somewhat normal.... what effect, if any, will this break have had on boxing in general and on fighters in particular?

• Will social distancing measures remain in arenas/venues?
• Will cornermen, referees, and others in close promixity wear masks? Will it be obligatory?
• What fighters have continued training and sparring? What fighters have not?
• What impact will this have on televised and/or streamed fights?
• Will boxing in general become more popular? Less? No change?

I'd be in favor of social distancing as well as other measures in arenas/venues for awhile. It's not gonna kill anyone to watch fights with a mask on and occupying every other seat.

I'd also be in favor of obligatory masks for corner people and referees.

I'm hoping against hope that mainstream TV recommits to boxing. It's not like jammed baseball/soccer/football stadiums are coming right back. There's profits to be made from boxing if handled properly by the networks.

For the same reasons, I'd think a sports-hungry public would "flock" (figuratively speaking, of course ;D ) to a well-managed boxing comeback.

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What about the fighters, they should wear masks too ? ;D

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Originally Posted by iwng100

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Originally Posted by TitoFan

When things get back to somewhat normal.... what effect, if any, will this break have had on boxing in general and on fighters in particular?

• Will social distancing measures remain in arenas/venues?
• Will cornermen, referees, and others in close promixity wear masks? Will it be obligatory?
• What fighters have continued training and sparring? What fighters have not?
• What impact will this have on televised and/or streamed fights?
• Will boxing in general become more popular? Less? No change?

I'd be in favor of social distancing as well as other measures in arenas/venues for awhile. It's not gonna kill anyone to watch fights with a mask on and occupying every other seat.

I'd also be in favor of obligatory masks for corner people and referees.

I'm hoping against hope that mainstream TV recommits to boxing. It's not like jammed baseball/soccer/football stadiums are coming right back. There's profits to be made from boxing if handled properly by the networks.

For the same reasons, I'd think a sports-hungry public would "flock" (figuratively speaking, of course ;D ) to a well-managed boxing comeback.

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What about the fighters, they should wear masks too ? ;D

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Only the B-side fighters, I imagine. ;D

They had fights in Nicaragua over the weekend. People in the ring before and after the fight were wearing masks but I only saw 2 pictures.

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Originally Posted by greynotsoold

They had fights in Nicaragua over the weekend. People in the ring before and after the fight were wearing masks but I only saw 2 pictures.

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Yeah, I saw that. I imagine when it starts up again stateside they'll have some social distancing measures implemented as well.

Boxing is a physical sport. That means sweat, spit, close clinches, blood, a no no for a social distance set up.

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Originally Posted by iwng100

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Originally Posted by TitoFan

When things get back to somewhat normal.... what effect, if any, will this break have had on boxing in general and on fighters in particular?

• Will social distancing measures remain in arenas/venues?
• Will cornermen, referees, and others in close promixity wear masks? Will it be obligatory?
• What fighters have continued training and sparring? What fighters have not?
• What impact will this have on televised and/or streamed fights?
• Will boxing in general become more popular? Less? No change?

I'd be in favor of social distancing as well as other measures in arenas/venues for awhile. It's not gonna kill anyone to watch fights with a mask on and occupying every other seat.

I'd also be in favor of obligatory masks for corner people and referees.

I'm hoping against hope that mainstream TV recommits to boxing. It's not like jammed baseball/soccer/football stadiums are coming right back. There's profits to be made from boxing if handled properly by the networks.

For the same reasons, I'd think a sports-hungry public would "flock" (figuratively speaking, of course ;D ) to a well-managed boxing comeback.

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What about the fighters, they should wear masks too ? ;D

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a punch could kill them at anytime, i doubt they have any fear of bullshit

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Originally Posted by iwng100

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Originally Posted by TitoFan

When things get back to somewhat normal.... what effect, if any, will this break have had on boxing in general and on fighters in particular?

• Will social distancing measures remain in arenas/venues?
• Will cornermen, referees, and others in close promixity wear masks? Will it be obligatory?
• What fighters have continued training and sparring? What fighters have not?
• What impact will this have on televised and/or streamed fights?
• Will boxing in general become more popular? Less? No change?

I'd be in favor of social distancing as well as other measures in arenas/venues for awhile. It's not gonna kill anyone to watch fights with a mask on and occupying every other seat.

I'd also be in favor of obligatory masks for corner people and referees.

I'm hoping against hope that mainstream TV recommits to boxing. It's not like jammed baseball/soccer/football stadiums are coming right back. There's profits to be made from boxing if handled properly by the networks.

For the same reasons, I'd think a sports-hungry public would "flock" (figuratively speaking, of course ;D ) to a well-managed boxing comeback.

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What about the fighters, they should wear masks too ? ;D

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https://i.imgur.com/DxQADKD.jpg Frankie was a trail blazer ;D

Deontay Wilder costumes for all during fights is my guess. His career is over.

Over 55k dead and we’re opening back up. My state opens tomorrow (pray for me if you believe in such things). Death projection models are already moving back up. Point being if our government is going to kill us they should allow us to be entertained. Our federal government sent out instructions for our states that only told them to do what they were doing so I guess the instructions are to be used to start a fire to burn the bodies.

Edit-over 59k dead

Case in point brother. My state is open up for restaurants, but I said to some (last night OK) HOW can people eat in restaurants with their MASKS ON? The devils who run things only care about money plain, and simple. Open up, yes get the dollars flowing die of coronavirus -- who got caught eating in a buffet with even 50 per cent of capacity. Not me.

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Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

Case in point brother. My state is open up for restaurants, but I said to some (last night OK) HOW can people eat in restaurants with their MASKS ON? The devils who run things only care about money plain, and simple. Open up, yes get the dollars flowing die of coronavirus -- who got caught eating in a buffet with even 50 per cent of capacity. Not me.

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It’s really quite shocking. They’re literally gauging how comfortable we are with death and adjusting policies by our levels of comfort. It’s not “save every life you can” it’s “how many dead will they accept”. Is 14k more dead okay to open a week earlier? It is, okay, kill them. When we are comfortable with this new 74k number they will adjust that up too. Then they will just say the projections were wrong. We’re already seeing it. The president today “well the early projections were 2-3 million” yeah, so we adjusted our behavior. “Then it was 100 thousand to 200 thousand” yeah, so we adjusted our behavior. We got it down to 60 thousand and now we are adjusting our behavior in the wrong direction. I just hope the rest of the word is smarter than we are, it’s not asking much. They should see how quickly the numbers can change because it just happened! February 28th the president said “It’s 15, it will be zero soon, we’ve done a great job”. Have we really forgotten this in 2 months?

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Originally Posted by NoSavingByTheBell

Case in point brother. My state is open up for restaurants, but I said to some (last night OK) HOW can people eat in restaurants with their MASKS ON? The devils who run things only care about money plain, and simple. Open up, yes get the dollars flowing die of coronavirus -- who got caught eating in a buffet with even 50 per cent of capacity. Not me.

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It’s really quite shocking. They’re literally gauging how comfortable we are with death and adjusting policies by our levels of comfort. It’s not “save every life you can” it’s “how many dead will they accept”. Is 14k more dead okay to open a week earlier? It is, okay, kill them. When we are comfortable with this new 74k number they will adjust that up too. Then they will just say the projections were wrong. We’re already seeing it. The president today “well the early projections were 2-3 million” yeah, so we adjusted our behavior. “Then it was 100 thousand to 200 thousand” yeah, so we adjusted our behavior. We got it down to 60 thousand and now we are adjusting our behavior in the wrong direction. I just hope the rest of the word is smarter than we are, it’s not asking much. They should see how quickly the numbers can change because it just happened! February 28th the president said “It’s 15, it will be zero soon, we’ve done a great job”. Have we really forgotten this in 2 months?

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there has always been a cure for hunger. It’s not “save every life you can” it’s “how many dead will they accept”

I think we're going to get a lot of fighters initially coming back in higher divisions and see more than a few 'upsets'. Can also see them permanently lining the press row in splash guard shields and refs in face shields. If they can attempt goofy Jack Reiss wearing headband and bowtie cams..they can wear blast shields. Might actually be good to make refs faceless ???.

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Originally Posted by greynotsoold

They had fights in Nicaragua over the weekend. People in the ring before and after the fight were wearing masks but I only saw 2 pictures.

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Yeah, I saw that. I imagine when it starts up again stateside they'll have some social distancing measures implemented as well.

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I posted on another thread that Top Rank is looking to start up in June, doing fights with no audience, two shows a week on ESPN and the ESPN app.

A lot of knockouts. Early knockouts too. The first few fights will be sloppy as hell with guys tiring out and getting TKO'd. For sure.
:rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by ykdadamaja

A lot of knockouts. Early knockouts too. The first few fights will be sloppy as hell with guys tiring out and getting TKO'd. For sure.
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That's a good take on things. You're probably right.

I don't think that it will be too much longer until we see boxing in some fashion. Many people that I know are already working hard to be ready when opportunity presents itself.

The Robert Garcia facility in Riverside, Calif, is up and running. I suspect that it has been for some time because the Riverside County sheriff was not enforcing the shut down order and the gym is located in an area that used to be patrolled by the sheriff, as opposed to the city police.

Been a long strange trip hasn't it? Seems we have come full circle with the UK being down. I think the lull we have now with some promoters in States is them planning around what were seen as the worst months. One thing that I was wrong on or maybe put to much stock in was having 'needing' massive crowds all the time. It's odd some cards you notice much more than others but largely crowd or not, the atmosphere, a good competitive fight does keep you center focus.

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Been a long strange trip hasn't it? Seems we have come full circle with the UK being down. I think the lull we have now with some promoters in States is them planning around what were seen as the worst months. One thing that I was wrong on or maybe put to much stock in was having 'needing' massive crowds all the time. It's odd some cards you notice much more than others but largely crowd or not, the atmosphere, a good competitive fight does keep you center focus.

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Good observation. A decent well matched fight will always entertain but maybe the uneven mandatories and overhyped grudge jobs were somewhat compensated for with a crowd filling in some of those entertainment gaps.

Its easy to forget it has never just been a sport. The circus, the showmen, the flash and bang and the traveling show coming to town has always kept prizefighting special.

Personally I can't wait to get back to shooting and reporting on the small hall shows and trade fights were a lot of friends and colleagues keep that fire burning.

A bad effect on sports overall, sad to say. I don't want to live in a masked society. It can only minimize, not eliminate. Fortunate for boxers, they have a smaller team, unlike baseball, basketball, soccer, American football. NFL is really feeling the effects.