What are your thoughts of Today's Boxing ?

Today they're just feeding us sparring sessions, while the real fights get canceled or rescheduled. Look at garcia- Spence, no killer instinct there. And Gabe Rosado vs Danny Jacobs, one guy didn't train. The other guy was a b+ fighter at best. Jacobs showed up for the payday

While casimero Donaire is done for, Tyson fury deontay wilder is put off till October.

I see Mayweather us still clowning around with the featherfists, and Manny is taking on all comers. All these exhibition fights coming up are TBD.

I agree lightweight and bantamweight is where it's at. And the he division is just too inactive. Same with the welterweights.

 

P4P I think Inoue would smash Wilder and Tank - power and accuracy.

 

Boxing currently sucks

 

too many fighters conveniently avoiding other fighters.
too many titles and version of titles.

 

It kinda does unfortunately, year after year seems to roll by with **** all happening.

 

Defensive boxing has become more prevalent in the upper echelons of the sport even Mexican boxers now are more defensively minded. JMM was probably the first Mexican boxer to use that more defensive orientated style balanced with the usual offence Mexicans are known for, despite his counter punching ways, he was still knocking people out and had that signature left hook to the body in his arsenal. MAB too after the early losses altered his style became more the boxer. Canelo now is a further evolution of that which just like JMM has seen him rise to the top of the sport. I expect more and more Mexican fighters to use this more balanced style.

It seems a lot of big fights right now are not happening. In the past it always seemed like they'd duck each other for a while but eventually the fight would get too big and commonsense would prevail, even if it meant one fighters suddenly looked vulnerable and so their promoter would cash out. But now it seems you have all these big promoters linked to big networks are all trying to out do one another and make the other look bad and so certain big fights simply are not happening. It happened in the past but not to this extent, it seems even more money coming into the sport instead of making them more inclined to make the big fights has made promoters more risk adverse to keep what they have.

Boxing much like most things has fallen to the rise of idiocracy as we see more and more novelty fights. The rise of celebrity culture has finally invaded the sport with Youtubers now fighting real boxers and even 2 strongmen trying to cash in using the sport of boxing. In a way it helps promote the sport but also tarnishes the sport bringing it down to the lowest common denominator.

US boxing will continue to decline by the looks of it. Without the support from the grass roots you kill off the sport. US boxing will basically become a sport dominated by Mexicans and other overseas fighters supported mainly by their ethnic groups in the US. US boxers will largely be ignored, they may still go onto have success but we may never see another Mayweather like draw. Canelo is the big star now a Mexican, Joshua a Brit after him the next biggest draw. Andre Ward could never capitalise on winning the Super 6, partly that was him, partly that was the decline in interest in the US from his demographic group. Crawford/Spence would of been a huge fight 20 years ago now it's only meaningful to hardcore fans as nobody knows who they are.

But the decline is US boxing on the flip side has seen the rise of boxing elsewhere. From Joshua's success in the UK to Inoue's success in Japan.

 

Let's look at tennis, novak, federer and nadal have dominated the last decade and a half. Now imagine that they avoided playing each other all those years and you have boxing. It's a ****ing disgrace what it's become.

 

Johnny tapia. That dude was pure entertainment. That late 90s to early 00s era was great. Gatti vs Ward. You don't see many fights like that anymore.

 

Mediocre fighters, aside from inoue there isnt a fighter that shows they can hang with the older top fighters.

 

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Over the last century HW has been the most interesting division for maybe 10 years.

Recently I've joined the division consolidation bandwagon. The talent is spread too thin and there are too many belt holders who manage to hang on to something for years on end without fighting anyone.

The other thing that always amazes me when I actually watch a fight from 25+ years ago is the combinations. Of course only the classics from years past are still watched, but today you never see such long sequences of one punch building off the one before it and setting up the next one.

I think it was a matter of iron sharpening iron. Some skill levels you just don't reach if you don't face consistent challenges.

Power is all we have left!

The novelty/whacky stuff has always been there. Holyfield, Tyson, Ali, Marciano, Louis, and Dempsey all did sideshow stuff at one point or another. If anything freak shows like Mayweather/Paul are examples of boxing returning to a proven formula to grow the audience.

 

i hear you.

i'm finding fewer and fewer credible fights to watch in the last 5 years.

 

Compared to the fights of past fighters, we are seeing weak matches. Back in the day our sport was blood and guts. Now it is only bucks and zero ****s. We need a boxing revolution.

 

You guys should ask yourselves this question: Would you swap today with being a boxing fan 100 years ago? You know, back when there was no TV, no YouTube - and no internet, where you could discuss boxing with fellow enthusiasts on a forum like this.

My grandad was born in 1895 and boxed a little as an amateur - but, being from Denmark, he had no idea what was going on in the outside boxing world.

My dad was born in 1923, and was also interested in boxing - but he died at a young age in 1969, without ever having seen even the tiniest glimpse of great fighters like Louis, Pep, Robinson, etc.

I was born in 1952, and have been interested in the sport since the early 60s. For many years, I could only read about the champions, past and present, in the magazines I subscribed to. I remember reading about Rubin Olivares and Nicolino Locche, and fantasizing about how fantastic they would look in the ring - knowing (at the time) only too well, that I would never get an opportunity to actually see for myself. But wouldn't you know... a couple of decades later this wonderful internet world made it possible for me to not just watch Olivares and Locche, but just about every big fight from every corner of the globe as well - in addition to thousands of great fights/fighters from the past.

Yes, it's a wonderful time to be a boxing fan!