New ruling could finish boxing in NYC

[smashup]

It doesn't look good at all, potentially we will never see Boxing at MSG again.
When you think of all the legends and huge fights the venue has seen going back years and years it's a massive shame.

[generalbulldog]

Oh well, boxing only has itself to blame. MMA is the golden child of combat sports in the USA right now and fastly rising and is a very popular sport. Why? A lot of its events is on free tv just like basketball, baseball, and American football. Boxing killed itself with the mainstream when it went exclusively to HBO and Showtime, which are premium cable channels that only a small population of Americans have.

A guy like Golovkin should have been a household name in the USA, just like how Roberto Duran was. Most sports fans knew who Duran was in the 70s and 80s, now with Golovkin, only hardcore boxing fans know who he is.

Yeah, I'm going off topic now, but boxing has only itself to blame when shortsighted promoters went almost exclusively to premium cable and that's how you have the sad state boxing is in right now. No boxing on free tv, means losing out on potential customers and potential participants that sees the sport and is interested in taking it up.

[Spicoli]

Id say that if anything boxing has made a comeback as far as across the board network exposure recently and puts out just as much as mma or more specifically the ufc. We now see the return of cards on 'free' nbc or cbs and the continuation on long running cable series. They've always served as a grooming ground to propel guys to the hbo or showtime save for a rare few. The huge difference and what ufc does well is they funnel fighters to events. The weekly shows or even 'reality' series are usually geared to steer matches all to yet another PPV. By next week they will be on what..UFC #301 Boxing shoots itself in the foot with promotional and network divides. There is plenty of action to be found every month but as good as fighter A is this week, we all know chances of meeting fighter B from next week are tough when they must jump hurdles and jump through the hoops of the governing bodies who would hate the thought of losing fees, rankings etc. Boxing fans can be spoiled man . We only want the finished product and miss out at times on the development and build. Honestly HBO and Showtime can be overrated and I think gone are the days when we expect "premium boxing" from them. They just handed us Soto Karass and Kamegai as a co main..great first fight..and have Gabe "Mr. FNF himself" Rosado as chief support on HBO ppv. All of the stars started somewhere and more often than not it was some channel you caught just flipping through early on in career.

Now if only a Golovkin had that stacked decade or dare we say his own Leonard . He was known but largely did his championship work out of the States for the first few years. With great competition comes notoriety. I think in large part that's what Golovkin v Brook was all about. Not so much a formidable top challenge with respect but a bit of standing in Brooks hometown shine and fan appeal.