Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
It's not because the fighters are less popular today it's because there are billions of TV channels, internet etc. So people like Master, who complain about not getting everything for free, are sitting in front of their computer watching porn even when the boxing is free.
Yep. When Benn and Eubank became massive names there were four TV channels. OK, Sky had started the year before their first fight but they only had a few subscribers. No internet, no mobile phones, no social media, four channels on the telly. And boxing had up to the seventies been one of two guaranteed ratings hits, more than football believe it or not. So lots of people in the eighties with a memory of watching big fights (when there were two and three channels).

There's so much what we now call content these days, TV, internet, mobile communications and so on, that everything now is just fragmented and there's no way to replicate those mass audiences again. Maybe if England ever get to the semi finals of the World Cup, but otherwise no.