Yo fellow Americans: Its time we make boxing the best sport in the country again.

yes but it shouldnt be..... it should be wherever the fight would generate the most local buzz... so it would change from fighter to fighter

cotto obviously = nyc
pavlik would be jersey area

etc etc... it would be better that way because fighters would develop bigger fan bases

 

manny pacman is the jordan of boxing? what are you talking about... jordan? you either dont know **** about jordan or enjoy over exagerating.... pacman JUST STARTED POPPING! he is 2 fights into super star status.... its not like becomign a superstar is an over night thing... it takes time to convert people into believers ... and ONE MAN DOES DETERMINE the success

post jordan sucked until kobe became what he is today and 04 draft class
hockey sucked until sydney crosby & alexander ovetckin started getting it buzzing again

baseball & football are different because they fan bases are different

boxing on the other hand has had guys like... mike tyson, sugar ray leonard, ali, etc etc..... boxing needs one guy to take the world by storm.. pacman is STARTING to do it...... floyd tried to do it but everyone hated him too much for it to work

it is the ****ing marketing also.... marketing in boxing is trash because its not one singal organization promoting the sport as one... its seperate entities promoting one fighter at a time... or one event at a time... which puts everyone on a seperate page and give everyones different motives... as opposed to everyone being on the same page and being to work together as one

everyone is explaining and your disagreeing with all the obvious reasons.... if you just want to disagree why did you even ask in the first place... since you think you have all the answers what do you have to offer? according to you boxing needs nothing

 

I would make boxing classes mandatory at all grade school levels. Get rid of the P.E. classes where they do nothing but get fat. I would also make it an extra carricular activity where it is not a contact sport.

It is time to put boxing up for free on ABC again. No bowling no f'n golf channel. Just a prime time slot on Saturdays where the best boxers fight for exposure.

 

clottey will beat cotto

 

be serious.... parents arent sticking their kids in boxing classes

so name boxings most popular era's then....

 

Las Vegas sh*ts on Madison Square Garden in every conceivable way. They have 3 arenas that can hold a quality match.

 

now think about all the boxers that those times had..... versus what we have now.... the athletes are what define the sport... if your sport is filled with sub par athletes or isnt as exciting as it should be and doesnt captivate the minds of the viewing public.... nobody will give a damn..

just imagine if some guy like ali or tyson came along in the next year or two.... you would not even be making this thread right now

 

ODH is doing great things and I believe he is gonna bring this sport to a new level atleast somewhere close to the golden ages. I really believe Arum is ****in **** up by putting up only his fighters against each other and is preventing alot of good fights from getting signed. By the way I already feel that the UFC is suffering and loosing its ora pretty soon everyone will forget about it just like everyone forgot about bell bottoms lol

 

Boxing has ALWAYS been driven by personalities. Usually it's been a HW, but during the "boring Holmes era", there happened to be the fab-4 to sustain it through to Tyson. To connect to a mainstream audience, it needs names & personalities.

The best thing to do would be to pray for an epic Pac/Floyd trilogy.

 

I think the ALI ages and the Duran ages are all over. We will never see a Sugar Ray or even a DLH for that matter. Not because of talent but because of the way boxing is being managed now. Low risk high reward is the new phase thats killing boxing.

 

yeah but nobody would give a **** about promoters, ppv's and all the other bs because there would be one guy who just mows all the competition down and makes it exciting at the same time

thats why i still say to this day... if cotto beat margarito & oscar... floyd vs cotto would have been the biggest fight... **** could have happened this summer in the new yankee stadium... would have been epic