What does boxing do after Mayweather retires?

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100 years ago "boxing is dead" was being reported. You can trace the same articles throughout history.

When you, and everyone else on this forum, are long dead boxing will still be going. They'll just be a load of other nerds that have taken our place.

I'm not saying boxing is going to die. I know it will always be around in some capacity. My worry is how relevant it's going to be in the future.

Boxing has never had any direct competition before. It's had other sports and other forms of media to compete with for the public's attention, but it's never had another combat sport to compete with it. Kickboxing was supposed to kill it in the 80's, but it never took off like people thought it would.

MMA has dethroned boxing as the premiere combat sport. That's just the facts. And I can only see the distance between MMA and boxing widening as big stars like Floyd, Pac, Cotto, ect retire.