Boxing should never go to Wembley again

I agree. Could tell on tv that hardly any of them were boxing fans.

Vegas is where all boxing should be, its the home of boxing

 

I hear what your saying some people just go because like you said it's a hot ticket .

 

I've been saying it throughout this build up...the amount of casuals (well not even casuals) is disturbing (or a shame)

Booing Groves after he just got KTFO? seriously wtf?

Less than 1/6 of them will be watching or know about Cotto Martinez...and that's probably a high guestimate.

But really that's what determines the success of a fight...how many of the non following public can you get to buy or watch the event?

 

As brutal as that is, and as much as you're right that many of them probably aren't boxing fans - many will have left as boxing fans and that's a good thing. Perhaps next time they won't treat it like it's a football match.

 

As an example, how many of you can remember the first fight you saw? Was it a big PPV event or was it a Cotto v Martinez?

 

I can't remember the first fight I saw...I think the first time I was drawn in and excited by boxing was watching a free televised Olympic event.

 

This was an Event, capital E. And boxing needs them. As fans we should be proud when boxing flexes its muscles and reminds us how big a sport it can truly be. It's like during the Tyson years. It was great boxing, but also in large part a circus. But all win win for the sport.

On another note, I sympathize with the OP. But there's a skill i've tried to cultivate when I find myself in similar situations. It's called adj.usting your expectations. Just have a laugh or a stiff drink and go with the flow. Though initially disappointed, you end up having a good time after all.

 

I don't see the problem with non hard-core fans tunning for a fight. Some of them will like what they saw and come back for more.

 

It is all well and good so longer as you dont talk boxing with any of the casual fans. Your head will explode. That being said boxing needs the occasional event like this to get new fans and keep the sport in mainstream consciousness

 

I was there too, and couldn't agree more.

What bothers me most is that the real fans (me included) are being made to pay 5-6 times over the odds for a ticket to the fight while the bunch of puffs that spend most of the night not in seats but stood at the bar posing, its bollocks.

 

so boxing fans dont want the sport to cross over to the mainstream??

Selling 80,0000 tickets is superb no matter who bought the tickets!

 

Stop whining! And stop acting like boxing professors ya`ll. Nobody was born with knowledge of the sweet science. Nothing better for the sport than a full Wembley to watch a washed-up (maybe), decent fighter against a not quite proven young contender - after all it wasn`t a Lewis-Holy sort of event. Boxing is still prime time and rising in popularity.