What is wrong with boxing?

[bigragu]

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.

definitely a lack of exposure on TV is huge.....and I think we have way too many weight classes and titles...the IBF and WBO need to go.....

[TheBESTP4P]

IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT THO LOOK AT THE ENDORSEMENTS FOR NBA, NFL, MLB ALL BIG TIME CONGLOMERATES!

LOOK AT THE BOXING ENDORSEMENTS LIKE GOLDEN PALACE CASINO, LEONS BBQ RIBS, SHASTA MCNASTY ENERGY DRINK

[TheBESTP4P]

ALOT OF SPORTS BARS WONT SHOW FIGHTS TOO BECAUSE THEY DONT WANT TO PAY THE PPV VIEWING CHARGE FEE

ALSO THEY FEEL ITS NOT SAFE?

[meowza]

Combination of poor matchmaking and too expensive.
How is a casual sports fan supposed to follow the sport when most fights are PPV?
I mean I can understand putting the huge events on PPV like the Tyson-Lewis or your ODLH-Tito, but when you got fights like Rahman - Barrett on PPV, something is damn wrong.
The casual fan is NOT gonna drop $50 to see these guys fight.
So they don't pay, they can't follow. And if they aren't following, they're not gonna pay. Catch-22.

[killersheep]

IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT THO LOOK AT THE ENDORSEMENTS FOR NBA, NFL, MLB ALL BIG TIME CONGLOMERATES!

LOOK AT THE BOXING ENDORSEMENTS LIKE GOLDEN PALACE CASINO, LEONS BBQ RIBS, SHASTA MCNASTY ENERGY DRINK

Valid point, compare Boxing's sponsors to Nascar's!!

[Preme]

Gone for to many title and to expensive...

In every sport there should be only ONE champion, when you got four or five if you include the ring although normally owned by someone with one or more of the ABC belts in some cases they hold just that and we get FIVE champions!

To expensive for people to watch! I feel so so sorry for the people in the Us having to folk out all that money for most PPV - boxing is something you fall in love with as a kid, something you following from a young age, watch fighters grow up and retire, enter a next generation with the experience of the last... Now, it is a discrace the amount of money people have to pay, not just that though; more fights need to be held around the country in the Us for people to be able to see, not just Vegas.

I have to mention the promotors though! IF the fights we wanted to see happen happend - the Major belts would be amalgamated in no time, also people wouldn't mind as much paying such high prices if they were getting true value for money.

I really believe boxing is on the down side. No longer are the mega stars known throughout the world, the non boxing fans don't know many. Ask about Mayweather in the UK, fuck all know of him, and even less prior to the announcement of the DE la hoya fight and he is the majority's P4P #1! winky wright the P4P #2 is another barley known fighter!

I honestly don't see boxing ever really on the up again. Prices would have to come down, the governing bodies would have to rank other champions, or force them to fight eachother every so many fights to make sure total unifications happen fast and the likes of HBO need to force the top names to fight eachother.

Boxing really needs a body that isn't a 'belt' - a body that governs world boxing, one that can step in and stop the likes of the WBC stripping its champion for wanting to fight to unify a belt

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[Scrap]

Identity, Thats the word Im looking for.In the40s and 50s and before millions Boxed and had identity with the sport someone in the family Boxed or had an interest in it. There was no need to sell it with cheap Titles or gimmicks, qauntaty bred quality. Boxings my first love, Im still actively involved. But Ive spread my wings and in a way am involved in Athletics, Soccer and a few other sports just through evolving. Im invited to watch the people I work with. There was a particular event which shocked me, The schools cross country event National finals I think there were 6 events, age groups about a hundred in each event. what surprised me was the crowd, there were thousands.Every competitor brought family and freinds, because of identity thing. Unfortunatly I cant see it changing unless we change Boxing at the grass routes, there should be a little less take and a lot more give.

[TheBESTP4P]

IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT THO LOOK AT THE ENDORSEMENTS FOR NBA, NFL, MLB ALL BIG TIME CONGLOMERATES!

LOOK AT THE BOXING ENDORSEMENTS LIKE GOLDEN PALACE CASINO, LEONS BBQ RIBS, SHASTA MCNASTY ENERGY DRINK

Valid point, compare Boxing's sponsors to Nascar's!!

cc KILER SHEEP! AND EVEN BETTER POINT WITH NASCAR!

[TheBESTP4P]

TAKE SHAQ FOR INSTANCE..........

ITS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT SHAQ SOLEY LIVES OFF OF HIS ENDORSEMENT MONEY ALONE AND HAS NOT EVEN TOUCHED HIS NBA SALARY CHECKS. HE JUST PLACED EVERY SINGLE NBA CHECK HES EVER EARNED AND PUT IT INTO HIS SAVINGS.

[TheBESTP4P]

NOW HOW MANY BOXERS COULD ACUTALLY LIVE OFF THEIR ENDORSEMENTS ALONE AND NEVER TOUCH THEIR PURSES?

PUTTING EVERY PURSE THEY EVER EARNED INTO SAVINGS AND NEVER TOUCHING IT?

[bigragu]

TAKE SHAQ FOR INSTANCE..........

ITS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT SHAQ SOLEY LIVES OFF OF HIS ENDORSEMENT MONEY ALONE AND HAS NOT EVEN TOUCHED HIS NBA SALARY CHECKS. HE JUST PLACED EVERY SINGLE NBA CHECK HES EVER EARNED AND PUT IT INTO HIS SAVINGS.

That's cause he's Shaq-a-licious!!!!! seriously...every fighter considered a legend fought on national TV..not PPV....

[TheBESTP4P]

TAKE SHAQ FOR INSTANCE..........

ITS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT SHAQ SOLEY LIVES OFF OF HIS ENDORSEMENT MONEY ALONE AND HAS NOT EVEN TOUCHED HIS NBA SALARY CHECKS. HE JUST PLACED EVERY SINGLE NBA CHECK HES EVER EARNED AND PUT IT INTO HIS SAVINGS.

That's cause he's Shaq-a-licious!!!!! seriously...every fighter considered a legend fought on national TV..not PPV....

SHAQ-A-LICIOUS?

[Julius Rain]

i choose too many titles.

the boxing world has allowed too many crooked people into the business, abc titles are meaning less and less every year. championship is meant for one holder not four.

I think more people involve in boxing needs to coisist if they really love the sport, if not then they are just plain money hungry greedy people.

hopefully one day a billionaire would save the boxing sport and buy off all this cancer so called promoters and abc title corporations.

we need 1 champion in each division. and we need to make him defend the title every few months like the old days. so we can have boxer focus on only boxing.

[Galaxy]

I went with to many titles cause it was the closest thing to the alphabet fools & poor match making (Which has been getting better over the last 5 - 6 years but can still be better!)

Another thing I don't like is all the bullsh*t before the fight starts:

1st theres about 100 people in the ring (Should only be the fighter & his second).

Then theres along this announcing that know one cares about, I don't wanna be introduced to the ref or judges. The fight is about the fighters not these other guys. Can't they have like TV shows where all this stuff rolls at the end of the broadcast like credits.

For big fights get someone like Kallerman who loves the sport to talk about the fighters & their achievements as they enter the ring. Then introduce the fighters & their records & ring the bell. The ref has already told these guys the rules so lets get rid of his cheesy little recap.

I also feel it's to expensive & more fights need to be on network TV so the public becomes aware of who the fighters are today

In the day Ray Leonard & DLH were well known even before they turned pro as a lot of their amateur bouts were shown

[Punisher136]

there is a bunch of legit problems there but i think above all the worst are lack of public figureheads that aren't as popular and commercial friendly as peyton manning and too many titles. Bad judging has been around since the beggining of time and it will continue to happen thats just the way it is. Too many weight classes isn't that bad of an issue except for the complete joke divisions (Supermiddleweight and Cruiser).

Price is an issue but again if people were more popular, networks would wanna pick up their fights so thats a 2 birds with one stone kinda thing. And i will continue to maintain that mma is just a fad. Bad matchup's are another key issue but thats all on don king and people that say "high risk no reward". Well guess what, if you say its high risk then its a fight you should take instead of handpicking your opponents with pretty records who have fought nobody