Interest in boxing dying out ??

[smashup]

No,but those of us running the sport really need to get our house in order,the public is sick of seeing BS matchups. If we give the public good fights they'll come back

hahahahahaha

[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!!!

[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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[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.

[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?

[Hunter]

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

That is an interesting way to look at it.

[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

[Master]

I will be leaving boxing soon as I cannot afford the subscription channels and I use to record any boxing that was on the TV

[boozeboxer]

I will be leaving boxing soon as I cannot afford the subscription channels and I use to record any boxing that was on the TV

Maybe Preme will loan you a few quid.

[armin]

Boxing will never die out, as long as there are two guys willing to box each other and people willing to pay to see it...Honestly I don't mind the mma some matches can be quite exciting, it just seems that there are less top talent guys in mma than there are in boxing and thus makes for sloppier less exciting fights. I also have no problem with wrestling on the ground but the whole punching and kneeing a guy while he's on the floo ,rfor some reason just makes me go uggggh. I also doubt most mma fighters will ever be as skilled as boxers boxers just box where as mma guys do like five different combat arts. Good boxing fights have me on the edge of my seat yelling at my tv while mma has yet to even come close to that

[VictorCharlie]

Entertainment is subjective. Just b/c you don't like watching MMA is in no way indicative of its popularity and to suggest a lack of talent in MMA is just ignorant. MMA isn't as deep as boxing but at its top, MMA fighters are world class athletes and tremendously talented. Many of its practitioners competed at world class levels in other combat sports.

What the UFC does right is they put 5+ fights on their PPVs and do 5-7 free shows a year. With being the biggest show now the UFC gives MMA fans good continuity and usually the best fights available.

I still follow boxing but not nearly as closely as I used to. I'm on a fixed budget and I just rarely want to spend $50 on a boxing PPV with 1 or 2 fights. I'd say the matchmaking has been pretty good lately but the Alphabets are one of the biggest problems. A singular belt and rankings are probably a pipe dream but would go a long way.

In regards to boxing dying: I think thats a bit dramatic but the decline in the US can't be denied. In my hometown of pop. 150K+ our only gym closed a while back. I think for boxing to make a come back it needs to find a way to get young people competing in the sport again.

[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.