I've been a boxing fan all my life, its not like all of a sudden I decided it was cool to watch boxing or found something to argue about, ever since I can remember I've been watching boxing, So I hate it when I read all this post about how boxing is dying and when people try to act smart and make a point of how another sport with 1 owner and 5 superstars is taking over one of the worlds oldest and biggest sport. Some people just don't appreciate the sport and think that every fight out there has to be a Morales vs Barrera to be a sucess, there is just no winning with these fans nowdays. I bet you talk all this crap on forums and to your friends by you still wake up every Saturday and get excited when you remember there is boxing on HBO or Showtime that night. And the most incredible thing is that all these complains are after the great years that 2007 and 2008 were in boxing.
i haven't been a boxing fan all my life, but its not like all of a sudden I decided it was cool to watch boxing or found something to argue about.
I always try to talk up boxing in RL; friends keep trying to argue that boxing is instant brain damage, but pro football has no long-term effects on its players. Sigh. Still, I occasionally get some to watch boxing - I always pick something like Golden Gloves, the local scene, or a standard FNF card. I've yet to see a non-fan turn into a rabid fan by watching a big-money PPV, but it occasionally happens with GG. Just starting noticing that I get more excited when I realize there's a Telemundo-type station showing fighters whose names I vaguely recognize (or mistake for a different Vasquez or whomever) than remembering there's an HBO fight that night with names that ring out.
JayCuban's right. It has been a great couple of years of boxing. I think fans - at least in America- are frustrated that boxing is ignored by the media (and I mean completely ignored!), and therefore ignored by sports fans. Golf gets news coverage but boxing doesn't? Go figure. Anyway, this is why it seems like a dying sport. But I think on a global basis, boxing is thriving.
**** the mainstream, HBO is the best channel on television and they carry the best sport. Boxing has been on a tear these past few years and is growing leaps and bounds in country's all over the world. Just because the media gave up on Boxing in the 90's here in the US doesn't mean that the sport is being viewed by a smaller amount of people world wide.
Exactly what im trying to say, people jump out and say boxing is dying if HBO can't come up with a good fight card every Saturday.
