Are ESB Posters too conservative in their opinions?

There seems to be a trend in all the posts that the status quo is inevitable and change is treated with derision.

Examples:

Weight Divisions
There seems a resistance to change a new divisions. The is an acceptance that people have go bigger of the years, but talk of increasing certain weights e.g Middle to 168 or 175, a super cruiser division etc is dismissed. I have the feeling some posters would like to return to the old traditional 8 divisions.

TV Coverage
The standard reply is that we are a minority sport, or not mainstream enough to have our own channel. A petition was set up and worldwide we achieved 909 lousy signatures - pathetic.

PPV
We have the power to get together and boycot lousy cards, but TV companies rely on us mugs to pay whatever and whenever

 

Thats all boxing for u!! Its rarley organized the way it should be!!

 

I think boxing lost a lot of fans because people in general are sick of new weight divisions and ****ing around with new belts and all. It stands to reason that the remaining fans aren't keen on more meddling.

Though I agree that there should be a new super-cruiserweight or something.

 

Only speaking for myself here but these are my thought's.

Weight Divisions:
I would be in favour of going back to the traditional 8 Divisions But adding a ninth with the Super Heavyweight Division.

TV Coverage:
Fairly happy at the moment, I signed the petition as i would love to see a boxing channel set up but currently have boxing from RTE, Sky Sports, Eurosport, Setanta, ITV 4 so most big fights are covered and those that aren't are always available via the internet in some way.

PPV:
Only buy big fights and only if i can be arsed to stay up, Vegas fights are tough if I'm working the next day but tend to download PPV's now as I'm already paying Sky a **** load of money.

 

I don't know what's the answer, but I think coverage is key in making boxing a mainstream sport. I can't tell you how many times boxing fans (not on the internet) have asked me about fights like Cotto-Pavlik, Juanma-Humberto Soto, Margarito-Calzaghe, etc... I think you get the idea. People are absolutley lost with boxing and only seem to pay attention to it when there is enough media generating buzz for a big fight.


EDIT: I think the craziest one I heard was in the Dawson-Tarver fight where I was told Cotto probably beats Dawson atsch

 

I hope that is you on the avatar, otherwise that is pretty gay.

 

lol, it's me.

EDIT: I was just wondering why nobody puts their own pics, so I decided to put mine. I'm not expecting to start a trend or anything, just thought of it and did it.