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Re: When will an American become heavyweight Champion again?
Originally Posted by TIC
top rank might be taking their archive & product elsewhere mid next year, that won't leave espn with much boxing content
That's really not good for the product of boxing. Bob Arum needs to find a new network and try to work something out. I remember when Al Haymon and PBC were putting fights on NBC and I'm just about positive that ended.
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Re: When will an American become heavyweight Champion again?
Any mainstream TV exposure for boxing is good.
I would count ESPN as that even if they have moved to the PPV market. Boxing got greedy with PPV and their quality has been going down whilst the price has gone up.
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100 percent agree with your first statement. ANY mainstream TV exposure for boxing is good. Unfortunately, we seem to be headed away from that... and from what I can see, the shift seems to be toward streaming services. If that is the case, boxing will lose even more fans. It's not like boxing doesn't already have other problems that have already driven fans away.
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Re: When will an American become heavyweight Champion again?
One of the major reasons why boxing loses fans is because of rigged score cards. I cannot tell you how many times I've heard people saying they were done after one of those ridiculous Horn - Pacquiao scores. I still remember watching the first Pacquiao and Bradley fight and laughing so hard at the score card and my friend fuming because he just lost 100 dollars. He hasn't watch a boxing event with me since then.
100 percent agree with your first statement. ANY mainstream TV exposure for boxing is good. Unfortunately, we seem to be headed away from that... and from what I can see, the shift seems to be toward streaming services. If that is the case, boxing will lose even more fans. It's not like boxing doesn't already have other problems that have already driven fans away.
There are other reasons why we're losing fans but that's up there.
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