How many of you are fed up with the current boxing scene?

No, we are old people, we moan about current era because it is not ours. The same as our peers whined about our era.

 

Well said that man! :good:good

 

This is the best of all possible worlds.

 

Never to be honest!

I can always find some fighters of interest!

 

Agreed too many Guy's are scared to fight the top competition, because they are scared to lose, or they don't want to get exposed for the frauds they are, or they need to use PEDs because They know they would suck without the aid of modern science, and or they are insecure of Their own talents::-(

I haven't bought a PPV since 2010 and don't ever plan on doing it again, I'm not gonna pay 60-70 bucks to watch 2 greedy juiced up goons play pitty pat and run all around the ring like a couple of chickens for 36 minutes, especially since the fight would have been free 25 years ago:verysa

Bring back 15 round fights, a rule that the champ has to fight the 3 top contenders 3x a year or gets stripped, same day weigh ins, Random hair drug testing, cheaters get banned for a year 1st offense, 2nd offense lifetime ban GTFO, AND the main even of a big fight starts in the early evening, why the **** does the main event of a World Championship fight have to start at midnight eastern time:nono, Bullsh!t, start the sh!t earlier, or just start making big fights on Sunday Afternoon..

 

I stopped paying attention, for the most part, to current boxing a few years back. I keep my eyes on heavyweight news, but I don't watch fights any more. When i watch highlight clips of the heavys they seem so... inferior... to my perhaps biased 47 year-old eyes.

I'm sure there are good fights and fighters at the lighter weights, but I just can't be bothered right now. I used to love current boxing across all divisions so much, so maybe my love for it will return.

What killed it for me? Probably "super champions", multiple titleholders, throwing any kind of lineal champions system out the window, corrupt sanctioning bodies, too much PPV, the absence of gentleman boxers & proliferation of over-the-top bravado, advertising on fighters' backs... I could go on and on.

I'd probably come back if there were just one world champion per division and an honest set of rankings that were universally accepted.

 

Yes mandatory 3 times a year to defend your title:yep

Its not fair to the top contenders to hold the title hostage by only fighting some bum once a year, if you can't fight more than once or 2x a year please just go away and retire...

Hell Ali and Holmes fought 3 x a year and those were the days of 15 round fights!!, plus you fight more you make more, isn't that an incentive?

 

OK well then we will just have to unify all of the titles:yep, we don't need a handful of guys who all claim to be the champ of one division..

 

Reluctant Roy set the trend of ducking and handpicking, now Floyd and Haymon have taken it to a new low. It's all about choreographing and packaging and protecting questionable talents like Floyd Wilder Quillin Berto Seth Mitchell Jacobs Garcia. Protection and ducking stunts a fighter's growth. You don't get better winning handpicked sparring sessions. Thank goodness Moonves forced Floyd to fight Pac. But it seems haymon will continue to protect all his B level frauds and try to package and sell them as stars. Haymon is turning boxing into an in house reality show and veering it away from risking his best vs the best out there.

Let's hope Haymon takes some risks for the fans with all his TV dates coming but I don't see that happening. "The Al Haymon Reality Show Boxing League" could turn into WWE.

 

Nah... not really. Boxing is what it is.

If the boxing landscape looks stagnant look a little deeper...I started paying attention to Roman Gonzalez and Inoue...which I'm very glad I did!

Either that or watch some old Napoles' fights..haha.

 

Boxing used to be a sport for the baddest asses on the planet. Tough guys nobody would f with. For the most part the best went after big challenges when they could find one. Today the "best" avoid big challenges like the plague and then finally make them years later when a loss or a win doesnt matter anymore.

 

Not me. There's good-no, great stuff to watch in the current scene. Same as there was in previous eras.

 

Honestly I barely watch boxing these days. I started losing interest in the mid 2000s. The alphabet thing got way out of hand. Then when the WBA or whoever started having "super champion" i.e. more than one "world "champion per division I just couldn't take it seriously. It was bad enough there was such a proliferation of world organizing bodies but to have more than one champion per division for the same world organizing body was really stupid.

That said, I do find it interesting that NBC is going to try to have some shows coming up. I wonder if it has anything to do with getting NASCAR. Boxing and NASCAR may have an overlapping demographic.

 

Slack-jawed troglodite red necks are boxing fans also?