Interest in boxing dying out ??

[Kel]

MMA is like watching a fight down in a well. Boxing is like viewing a fight across an ocean.

Your right! I've not boxed since I was at school but I'm world class. I just see all the punches and ETC

[HattonTheHammer]

Boxing will always be the number 1 fighting sport in our lifetimes and way beyond that.

You cannot change the course of history and the fact that its one of the few if not only sports that is performed the entire world over.

Attractions like khan-barrera, hatton-pacquiao are always going to be huge for the respective countrys the fighters are from because of the magnitude of what the fight represents.

The sport is suffering a downturn in american talent right now due to many reasons a lot of which are down to many decent heavyweight prospects choosing a lucrative NFL career rather than the up and down risks you get with a business like boxing.

We dont have tysons, ali`s, fraziers, prince naseems or mayweathers just now - but its only a matter of time until those characters return in newer fresher forms.

As for UFC/MMA its a great combat sport and a lot of fun but it doesnt and never will have the history and recognition boxing has. Beside outside of the USA the sport is virtually non-existent other than those hardcore fans who follow the sport religiously to the common man it doesnt represent any interest like the sport of boxing will.

[Fenster]

The UFC pack out the O2 everytime they come here.. and that's even without their major stars.

David Haye sold 3000 tickets for his last fight there.

[HattonTheHammer]

The UFC pack out the O2 everytime they come here.. and that's even without their major stars.

David Haye sold 3000 tickets for his last fight there.

UFC rather cleverly package their events on a monthly basis WWF style in order to sell tickets as opposed to boxing which pretty much just goes with a schedule.

Anyway im pretty sure ice hockey, horse equestrian etc have sold out at the o2 before...doesnt make them bigger than boxing does it.


All you need is 10,000 UFC nuts from a population of 60 odd million to fill out an arena!!!

[Fenster]

The UFC pack out the O2 everytime they come here.. and that's even without their major stars.

David Haye sold 3000 tickets for his last fight there.

UFC rather cleverly package their events on a monthly basis WWF style in order to sell tickets as opposed to boxing which pretty much just goes with a schedule.

Anyway im pretty sure ice hockey, horse equestrian etc have sold out at the o2 before...doesnt make them bigger than boxing does it.


All you need is 10,000 UFC nuts from a population of 60 odd million to fill out an arena!!!

I don't get what you're saying?

All 10,000 Brit UFC fans attended the same event?

David Haye is meant to be a new exciting heavyweight star, he's very well known in Britain, goes on plenty of non-boxing tv/radio shows, yet couldn't sell more than 3000 tickets for his fight.

The last UFC promotion at the 02 I had never even heard of the guys. They did like 15,000 tickets.

How come they can slaughter one of the worlds most famous/exciting boxers, in his hometown, with a bunch of nobodies?

[brocktonblockbust]

you better believe its dying out.... more like it DIED out.

I used to tune in every Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. on channel 7, regular t.v., on Wide World of Sports wioth Howard Cosell, and see fights like Larry Holmes vs Earnie Shavers, Muhammad Ali vs Bob Foster, Foreman vs Lyle, Holmes vs Witherspoon, Snipes vs Holmes, etc....

Now you get to pay 50 bucks to watch bums like Larry Donald, Sam Peter, Jameel McCline, and other bums too.

Yes if it has not already died out, it is certainly about to die out.

Unless the next Ken Norton or Evander Holyfield or Ron Lyle come along soon, then just maybe it can be revived.

[James_Teja]

MMA is the gay...









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[Kev]

MMA is the gay...









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hahahaha I laughed my ass of at that

[JonnyFolds]

MMA is THE gay!!! hahaha. Love it.

I really can't get into two guys rolling around on the floor together.The rounds are waaaay too long. They should stand up the guys on the floor way more often than they do.

I think boxing is here to stay. My pops had it right. He's 81, still watches boxing religiously. He, like myself, loves the lighter weight classes now, has incredible insight on fights, and can tell from the opening bell who the better fighter is.

Boxing has so much more CLASS than MMA.

[Hunter]

It is only a matter of time before MMA snuffsthe last breath out of boxing.....




Per Dana White

[Mar]

The critics will be talking about boxing dying for years....which will also show boxing aint going no where. This sport has survived well tons of other companies have not, even with the silly sanctioning, belts that are worth less than the one i wore to work so on and so forth. MMA and thier supporters for good reason are the main one's drumming up this crap.

[TheDemolitionDan]

Boxing isn't dying, it's not mainstream, but it's not dying. If Boxing was dying then people wouldn't be interested in it. The people still but PPVs and sell out arenas even when two bums are fighting. Like on Friday Night Fights usually it's always a sell out. In the world it's still like 3rd or 4th in terms of popularity. Boxing is not dying all that's why it is still setting records in buys in PPVs.