What is wrong with boxing?

[killersheep]

You can pick two things from this list. Boxing's popularity has definately been waning of late, why do you think this is?

[Lance Uppercut]

Lack of Big matches on Free TV. Back when all the championship fights were on free TV boxing was a mainstream sport in the US.

[TheBESTP4P]

I PICKED POOR MATCH UPS THAT NO ONE GIVES A F ABOUT


AND TOO EXPENSIVE

[TheBESTP4P]

Lack of Big matches on Free TV. Back when all the championship fights were on free TV boxing was a mainstream sport in the US.

cc!

[killersheep]

I voted for too many titles (makes it very confusing to the casual fan)

and poor match-making (makes it hard to justify to casual fans to come over and watch a non-competitive bout)

[beerjelly]

Ive gone for too many titles and No good public personalities, but by that I think its more about there not being enough exposure to create public peronalities. Look at the exposure Amir Khan is getting and all the guys from the contender and look how much public interest there is in them. If only there was that much media exposure for the real champions ......

[LBSCFC]

Lack of Big matches on Free TV. Back when all the championship fights were on free TV boxing was a mainstream sport in the US.

cc!

not being from the US i only have a vague idea about how much u get charged in the US for watching boxing.

back in the 80s we got all the major fights on terrestrial/free tv. im thinking thats your ABC/NBC.

nowadays apart from frank warren fighters which remain on free tv most of our bouts are on a subscription channel called sky sports which im assuming is your HBO/showtime. the odd one (ricky hatton) is shown on PPV here for about 15 pounds.

from what i understand u guys in the US used to get most big fights in the 80s on free tv apart from the likes of holmes,hagler,hearns, leonard. now all fights are on subscription. correct me if im wrong

i think UK and US have a similar problem in fights not being seen by the whole of the country although by the sound of it we tend to have less ppv boxing matches. for example de la hoya v mayweather here is on subscription channel sky sports because crazy as it may sound neither are deemed big enough to appear on PPV here in the UK.

[TheBESTP4P]

BOXING ALSO LACKS THE BIG TIME ENDORSEMENTS THAT NBA, NFL MLB HAS AS WELL!

WHEN PAC MAN LANDED NIKE I WAS LIKE WHOAAAAAAAAAA SERIOUSLY?

[killersheep]

Lack of Big matches on Free TV. Back when all the championship fights were on free TV boxing was a mainstream sport in the US.

cc!

not being from the US i only have a vague idea about how much u get charged in the US for watching boxing.

back in the 80s we got all the major fights on terrestrial/free tv. im thinking thats your ABC/NBC.

nowadays apart from frank warren fighters which remain on free tv most of our bouts are on a subscription channel called sky sports which im assuming is your HBO/showtime. the odd one (ricky hatton) is shown on PPV here for about 15 pounds.

from what i understand u guys in the US used to get most big fights in the 80s on free tv apart from the likes of holmes,hagler,hearns, leonard. now all fights are on subscription. correct me if im wrong

i think UK and US have a similar problem in fights not being seen by the whole of the country although by the sound of it we tend to have less ppv boxing matches. for example de la hoya v mayweather here is on subscription channel sky sports because crazy as it may sound neither are deemed big enough to appear on PPV here in the UK.

Yeah PPV here is around $50 (25 pounds) a pop and about 60-75% of the big fights are PPV.

[CutMeMick]

I voted too many titles and other my other is PROMOTERS. Ultimately they are the ones with the money they are the ones that bid on the fights.
Theres tooo mnay hands in the pot and they ALL want a piece of the PIE.

If we could go back to 1 champ. belive me even the promoters would step it up they would have no other choice BUT since their is a choice they take that route and pay sancitoning fees to other organizations to sanction their fights... Uummm!! Just look at the PBF vs. Zab fight the IBF didn't collect a check from Baldomir so they took their belt out and then just gave it back to Zab so he could collect $ from PBF.

[LBSCFC]

Lack of Big matches on Free TV. Back when all the championship fights were on free TV boxing was a mainstream sport in the US.

cc!

not being from the US i only have a vague idea about how much u get charged in the US for watching boxing.

back in the 80s we got all the major fights on terrestrial/free tv. im thinking thats your ABC/NBC.

nowadays apart from frank warren fighters which remain on free tv most of our bouts are on a subscription channel called sky sports which im assuming is your HBO/showtime. the odd one (ricky hatton) is shown on PPV here for about 15 pounds.

from what i understand u guys in the US used to get most big fights in the 80s on free tv apart from the likes of holmes,hagler,hearns, leonard. now all fights are on subscription. correct me if im wrong

i think UK and US have a similar problem in fights not being seen by the whole of the country although by the sound of it we tend to have less ppv boxing matches. for example de la hoya v mayweather here is on subscription channel sky sports because crazy as it may sound neither are deemed big enough to appear on PPV here in the UK.

Yeah PPV here is around $50 (25 pounds) a pop and about 60-75% of the big fights are PPV.

wow u guys are being done. we get the majority on subscription. only lewis (late career), tyson (late career) hamed (97 onwards) and now hatton regularly appeared on PPV here.

[TheBESTP4P]

I voted too many titles and other my other is PROMOTERS. Ultimately they are the ones with the money they are the ones that bid on the fights.
Theres tooo mnay hands in the pot and they ALL want a piece of the PIE.

If we could go back to 1 champ. belive me even the promoters would step it up they would have no other choice BUT since their is a choice they take that route and pay sancitoning fees to other organizations to sanction their fights... Uummm!! Just look at the PBF vs. Zab fight the IBF didn't collect a check from Baldomir so they took their belt out and then just gave it back to Zab so he could collect $ from PBF.

SLEEZY!

[TheBESTP4P]

BUT LIKE LETS SAY EVEN IF YOU GOOGLE SPORTS

GUESS WHAT HARDLY EVEN POPS UP EVER?

[smashup]

You can pick two things from this list. Boxing's popularity has definately been waning of late, why do you think this is?

I think the opposite and that it's on the up (Fight wise anyway)
Look at the matchups so far this year on the whole and compare them to the last 2 years
We're getting big names meeting head on at last

[killersheep]

You can pick two things from this list. Boxing's popularity has definately been waning of late, why do you think this is?

I think the opposite and that it's on the up (Fight wise anyway)
Look at the matchups so far this year on the whole and compare them to the last 2 years
We're getting big names meeting head on at last

I am speaking specifically to the popularity of the sport world-wide, definately on the decline.