Quote Originally Posted by yoitsdan
9 out of 10 people in the street don't know who Floyd Mayweather, Wladimir Klitschko or Manny Pacquiao is. Boxing PPV figures are down and are continuing to dwindle, yet purses are increasing and less BIG fights are being made every year, yet HBO, Showtime and the promoters seem set on destroying boxing in the mainstream by making the big fights PPV offerings. Surely with UFC 66 quadrupling the turnover of the biggest fight last year, Manny Pacquiao v Erik Morales III and frequently slaughtering boxing with popularity, money and viewers, isn't it time for boxing to reach out to the once adoring public and show them who these people are, giving them the spectacle for free in return for more loyal fans? There are no Mike Tyson's or Muhammed Ali's left to sell the fights, so the fans have disappeared, yet still its $50 to see the fights, now being a brit, i don't have this problem, but I do have the problem that without fans, there's no money, without money there's no fights, so I'm panicing. In 10 years will we still have boxing as we know it?
Boxing is only dying in America, it is growing around the world. In fact this past year has proved to be the greatest pay-per-view ever for boxing.