Well,those other sports are much better organized. Boxing is just too confusing with it's WBC,WBA,IBF,WBO,FBI,CIA,KGB and it's zillion weight divisions. If you're the 150th best Golf or Tennis player in the world you're nowhere. If you're the P4P 150th best boxer in the world you probably are or were the holder of a world championship belt at some point in your career. How can we expect the average sports fan to make sense of it all? Even us real boxing fans can't. Another problem is television. In the US you have to pay $50 to see the best fights,in Europe (apart from the UK I guess,I live in Belgium) there's no boxing on television at all,except for Euro Sport where they only show third division fights. The result is that virtually no one knows the names of even the sports biggest stars. When De La Hoya,Trinidad,Hopkins,Klitchko or no matter who else fights you won't even find as much as a mention of the result in the newspapers over here. Boxing is completely,and I mean COMPLETELY ignored. Don't blame the media though (not entirely anyway),boxing itself has to get it's s*** together.



Quote Originally Posted by Hulk
I h@te how Boxing is treated as a second rate sport. Hell, golf, tennis, and the WNBA seem to get more attention than boxing. Unless of course it is a Tyson or Oscar fight. Mainstream America just does not seem as interested in this great sport as I feel they should be. Most would rather watch frikin GOLF! >