Boxing is the current casual viewer landscape

[Youngblood]

I remember gatti and lewis would not fight in Canada because the tax was high but Montreal is where it is all happening at the moment. What has changed?

I can't answer that as not sure. But I suspect that the UFC may have even helped promote the fighting arts with GSP. And then having up and comers in boxing like Bute, Pascal, Lemieux, the people there promoting them well...people have just caught an interest.

total guess tho.