In 20 years boxing will be all but lost!?

I just watched him and Vera slug it out for 10 rounds on HBO.

The Martinez bout was PPV but it delivered the high drama, outstanding final round. The kid took a hell of a beating and almost came back to stop the lineal p4p ranked Champion in the closing minutes.

 

The prices on everything has gone up.

PPVs are a waste in the Internet age anyway, it will be on youtube or cable in a few weeks.

 

Great trainers are not few and far between. A great fighter comes along, he signs pro with a cartel (who has a working relationship with a number of trainers) he gets given one of these trainers and the trainer gets the credit.

Any experienced trainer with the gift to teach can analyse what works for a great fighter and duplicate this with an already talented student. They only get talented students because they work with a team that scouts and exclusively signs talented amateurs for him to train.

What is happening now is trainers good bad and great are having to work around the task of trying to implement boxing techniques at the same time as a fighter is sharing his time with strength/ conditioning coaches and dieticians who come from other sports. If the conditioning guy wants the fighter to train to be explosive in short bursts it will restrict the time honoured tradition of the boxing coach being able to choose the right gameplan.

Also the great trainer is burdonned with heavyweights who are enhancing their mass artificially and having to work technical boxing skills around what is a bodybuilder frame. It is not always ideal if the boxing trainer is left with a guy who loses balance if he leans too far over one way. Some good boxers are compromised with bulk.

 

Fighters dont fight like dog**** anymore or draw the colour line because of a lack of great trainers to teach them integrity

 

I was into boxing in the late 80s early 90s and have made my way back. A whole lot more Eastern European flavor than when I left (though the first wave had stated), but I'm not totally disappointed in the product I'm seeing, particularly at the lower weights.

I think I second that it's far too PPV heavy. Certainly a big and growing trend even in that early 90s period, but it was offset by lots of boxing -- nationally televised boxing tours on ABC and CBS particularly, and a ton of cable shows dedicated to boxing.

I also second how great it is to have YouTube, so I don't have to miss out on everything!

 

Welcome back. :good

What got you interested in the sport again?

 

Thanks. I don't know if I was completely out, but it was something that just sort of hit all of a sudden. I went to college and had little-to-know access, then I caught the MMA bug, and that's where my money went to. Marriage and kids (up to 6 now), and my time and money went out the window it seems. Then I started watching some of my older fights on tape (transferred to DVD) and realized that I really missed the "Sweet Science." Nothing against MMA, but there is just something about boxing that I'm really drawn to.

I'm definitely glad to be back.

 

All these talented eastern europeans going pro have potential to make Boxing´s next generation more interesting than the last 10 years IMO....

 

All it takes is one heavyweight with the kind of predatory instinct that the Klitschko brothers lack. It won't matter if he's not from the US (or the UK).

 

People need to start talking about boxing on a positive note. Kill the corruption. And totally revamp the sport..One title only per division would be a good start...