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Quote Originally Posted by Fenster View Post
Boxing has never been more popular in the UK than it is now. Any British bod that says "boxing is dying" is not really a boxing fan they're a groupy (follow a few famous fighters) or live in a bubble (everything and everyone is crap these days..Zzzz)
Don't be so silly, it was far more popular in the 50's 60's and 70's, halls sold out and no such thing as pay TV. Every newspaper had one or two boxing correspondents, there was no alphabet title shit, Wembley or the Albert Hall was rammed for a British title fight, AND it was on BBC/ITV. Would Deontay Wilder now do a European 'bum of the month' tour like Cassius did, and take on all the European national champions? In your dreams. Showbiz with blood, and only the favoured few with management/whats left of the boxing media contacts get on. Nowadays fighters like Tony Sibson or Dave Boy Green wouldn't get a look in, if you don't believe me ASK THEM!

PS forgot to mention that the BBBOC was not then in promoters or managers pockets, and the ranking systems were noticeably fairer.
Today there are more clubs, gyms, fighters, shows, promoters, money, etc, that is a fact (ask Steve Bunce, he just wrote a book about it). Halls sell out every week, British title fights regularly take place in front of 10,000+ crowds. The 02, MEN, Football stadiums, Cardiff, Wembley, we don't have ENOUGH major indoor venues in this country to deal with the current popularity of boxing. It has it's OWN dedicated TV channel. FIVE different broadcasters show regular live boxing.

As for the board being kosher back then? Micky Duff? Lawless? The Cartel? Yes and the Mafia never used to fix fights in 50s either.

Come on mate, I get everything was better in the good old days (all the boys my age long for the 90s to comeback), but it's us that become jaded bastards pining for when we were young, the actual sport is better than ever.
Fully accept your comments about Duff and Lawless, not every decade is perfect..... However

This may be worthy of a separate post, I was channel flipping tonite and noticed 'boxing' on Dave. So I tuned in.

I have never watched such a pile of unaldulterated SHITE in my life. Michael 'Venom' Page against a lardy Piella laden Spaniard with an 11-2-1 record (no! that's 11 losses). I think it was at O2 small hall, half full of pissed up wanabee white collar boxers doing selfies. The referee duly stopped the contest as soon as Pedro took a shot from the posing twat in front of him. Boxing it was most definitely not. Still, all the yuppies returned to the wine bars as 'true' boxing fans. THis MMA type crap at £20 a ticket and £10 a pint will kill small hall boxing, where the 'proper' fighters need good purses to maintain their training, unlike MMA fighters who write computer games during the day and survive their lacklustre fights on alcohol and cocaine.