What is wrong with boxing?

[killersheep]

Lack of Big matches on Free TV. Back when all the championship fights were on free TV boxing was a mainstream sport in the US.

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not being from the US i only have a vague idea about how much u get charged in the US for watching boxing.

back in the 80s we got all the major fights on terrestrial/free tv. im thinking thats your ABC/NBC.

nowadays apart from frank warren fighters which remain on free tv most of our bouts are on a subscription channel called sky sports which im assuming is your HBO/showtime. the odd one (ricky hatton) is shown on PPV here for about 15 pounds.

from what i understand u guys in the US used to get most big fights in the 80s on free tv apart from the likes of holmes,hagler,hearns, leonard. now all fights are on subscription. correct me if im wrong

i think UK and US have a similar problem in fights not being seen by the whole of the country although by the sound of it we tend to have less ppv boxing matches. for example de la hoya v mayweather here is on subscription channel sky sports because crazy as it may sound neither are deemed big enough to appear on PPV here in the UK.

Yeah PPV here is around $50 (25 pounds) a pop and about 60-75% of the big fights are PPV.