Casual fans want to see KO's

In other words fighters with not allot skill, and don't move their heads ..

Fights like that don't happen too often between to highly skilled fighters. The only time this did happen was with Hagler and Herns which why that is a fight to remember. But fights like that don't always happen.. Excuse me they did happen but that was during the 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70 when fighters would fight 2 or 3 time a month.

 

I like myself a good glass shattering too. :deal

 

Those fans who were booing are exactly the types boxing should not be going for. And that's been a part of boxing's problem over the past few years. Wasting time chasing after the Jersey Shore 'bros' types with their size smedium Affliction and Ed Hardy shirts and short attention spans who start b!tching about how every non Gatti-Ward boxing match is 'boring' compared to MMA.

Boxing can NEVER please the type of fan that booed because what that fan is looking for (36 mins of mindless punching) is an unrealistic expectation to have.

But the mistake YOU make is believing that those are the ONLY 'casuals' out there. What about the older fans who grew up on boxing but stopped watching (for whatever reason)? What about the youngsters who been raised on stories from their uncles/fathers about SRL's or Ali's showmanship? What about females?

There's WAY more to selling boxing than just KO's. The current success of Mayweather amongst casuals should make this obvious. Boxing will NEVER grow trying to just sell KO's because KOs are SPECIAL when they happen. That's the point. You have to sell the sport for what it IS, not some video game version of it.

 

I don't think casual fans just want to see knockouts. You could have a boring fight for 10 rounds before the KO comes, and by then those casuals would have already changed the channel.

I think what makes an exciting fight, besides being competitive, is 'drama'. The test of wills (Corrales/Castillo). A fighter coming back from adversity (Marquez/Pacquiao 1). The dominant fighter who struggles to make it to the final bell (Froch/Taylor). It's all about the drama.

The hardcore fans will always admire a fighter's technical abilities. The casual fans need that something extra to get them hooked.

 

no, they would happen all the time if fighters fought the guys who are at their level. fighters now a days fight everyone but the ones who are equally skilled. you have 4 champions, so you can fight the 5th best guy in your division and still be fighting the #1 contender for your belt, there can be a huge difference in talent between the #5 contender and the real #1 contender in that division.
floyd vs pac is the first fight in many years that pits the best 2 welters against each other, you are going to see how close these 2 guys are to each other and how far they are from the 5th best welter. if you think one of these guys is just going to steamroll the other one, then you dksab.

 

If K.O.'s is what draws the casual fan then Deontay Wilder's artificial K.O.'s should grant him millions of followers on instagram and twitter. But that's not the case.

 

I thought there was 2 good solid match ups last night and its thats on free TV fair play.

Broner Molina was awful, if your fishing for casual boxing fans sitting down to watch this your guna hope for great toe to toe action and some brutal knockouts but its sport not wrestling, you can predict but you cant guarantee anything.

I enjoyed the Thurman fight, thought it was very good, thought he was very good.

 

American casual fans want to see exciting fighters, and want to see American fighters win.
Problem is that the current American 'house style' is very defensive minded, wich doesn't correspond to what those casuals actually want to see.

 

oh well, boxing is not for everybody....at least viewers didn't have to sit through 2 hours just to watch a score of 0-0 or 1-0 like we did for the so-called "most popular sport in the world."

 

Thurman vs. Guerrero was excellent.

 

not as much as youd think. Why werent the K2 bros megastars in the US then? Wladimir has knocked out 7 out of his last 10 opponents.
Exciting fights are what get people hooked.
A lot of FOTY contenders tend to be fights that go the distance.

 

the television ratings say they loved it..stop complaining

 

:blood

 

i also enjoy a ko

 

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