Quote Originally Posted by Mark TKO View Post
As said it’s down to ‘your era’ as a fan.

Was late 80s up to early 2000s for me when I knew who everyone was, bought the Ring Magazine and spent hours sadly analysing the ratings and records, fights were on terrestrial tv (or at least on non-ppv subscription channels) and you used to get an EA Knockout Kings \ Fight Night game every year with all the main guys in it etc..etc etc

PPV events used to be better too (thought again that’s because it was my era) where for £15 you’d get a Hamed, Benn, Eubank fight etc from Manchester (often on the same bill) then at 4am in the morning you’d get a Holyfield, Lewis fight etc .

Nowadays I look at the Ring ratings and know who hardly anyone is – I’m having trouble recalling the name of the Ring Pound for Pound number one right now, some guy in one of the bantam weight type divisions I know that much !

Only active fighter threads I comment on now are Haye, Khan, Fury and Joshua. Don’t feel qualified enough to comment on others.

It’s also spread across too many channels and is costly – no wonder the casual fan is on the decline.

But then again it’s natural for older guys to reminisce about the glory days………
Damn those were some fucking grade A ppvs. You made another great point with the boxing games. I haven't even thought about them, but another example on how UFC/MMA is taking away from boxing.

EA who made the fight night and knock out games stopped making Boxing games and they are focused on making UFC games now. At first they said that they would rotate UFC one year then Boxing the next but they have made back to back UFC games and no boxing games have even been announced. I been waiting forever for a new boxing game I sort of lost interest already.

But see that's exactly what I mean if no UFC games we would of had some awesome next gen boxing games. It's the little things like this that recruit new fans to MMA instead of boxing.