Boxing is dying

Sure, but jokes aside, look at the current US landscape. There is nothing there besides Canelo, and the occasional PBC card.

 

I think the main difference is that the US used to be the home of boxing, American fans still have the bizarre mindset that unless they fight over there they aren’t serious. Other parts of the world have taken over the sport on the whole, the Floyd era was super damaging for US boxing and Gervontgay Davis has only made it worse.

 

'Rumours of boxings death are premature' - Mark Twain.

 

This is just an American-centric view though. Boxing has had another massive resurgence in Asia and is still big here in the UK. An entertaining boxer here can gain a lot of fame and money without even being close to world level. Can't say the same for yank land

 

Exactly this.

 

Yanks just get mad because American exceptionalism doesn't exist anymore except in their own national sports (which no one else cares about). Boxing has always had changing demographics for talent and the general money market. Way back in the day Boxing was predominantly Jewish and Irish American alongside talent from places like the Carribbean. That doesn't apply anymore because times change.

Also the Japanese boxing system is great. Even if you have no am career at all you can still advance through events like the Rookie King tournament etc. Just amazingly well structured all round.

 

Dying a slow agonizing death. YouTuber fights will become more popular than the pros eventually. It’s a self inflicted death but I hate to see it. Slow motion suicide.

 

There's a ton of talent below CW in the US right now.

 

Look here, euro-bro, soccer sucks. I won't even dignify that snoozer of a sport by calling it football. No, "football" is the NFL. You might recognize it -- it's an upgraded version of your rugby. And basketball is popular all over.



p.s. yeah baseball does suck. Even my vestigial American pride cannot find a way to make baseball interesting or exciting. It's 90% nut scratching and dip chewing, 10% something happening.

 

Talent, yes? But where are the fight cards?
I have been watching lots of cards from the early 2010s recently, and nothing like it exists in the US anymore. Where are all of the SHO triple and quadruple headers? Where are the cards with multiple lower weight champions on it(like Japan in current times)?
Where are the stable, active champions at higher weights?

There is **** all going on in the US, unless the Saudis are involved. And then the occasional PBC PPV.

 

We COULD get a crazy good card going in the US. Benavidez vs Beterbiev (since god knows what Bivol is doing right now). Ennis vs Ortiz. Stevenson vs Lopez. Who wouldn't want to see those three? Ruiz vs Wilder on the undercard.