Boxing needs to make a comeback. Cable and Network TV can help!!!

Good post man. I agree. I actually think boxing could learn a thing or two from wrestling. And not in the ridiculous melodrama/scripted outcomes way either. Here's a couple thoughts:

1. Have fighters fight for only ONE sanctioning body. Have the WBC, WBA and IBF be more like WWF, WCW and ECW were during wrestling's peak years. You can still have unifications, but they'd not be often, and make them huge events.

2. Have a set amount of PPVs each year, with more than one significant fight on them. Then once a year have one HUGE mega-PPV Wrestlemania style. Maybe like 3 or 4 major title fights and a couple top contender fights too. And forget the VHS copy, with digital cable and stuff, just make a digital copy of it available for download along with your purchase.

3. Here's a more random, less-related idea. All these old heavyweights still making noise. Briggs, Golota, Holyfield, McCall, Hide, etc. Put them in a tournament. The winner of the tournament gets a title fight. The losers all MUST retire.

I know these things will never happen, but it's fun to think about.

 

Forget Williams,Abraham needs and deserves his fight with Pavlik more.

 

It would give boxing a big shot in the arm to be on network tv again. As a Brit, I can tell you how much good some proper boxing getting back on terrestrial tv did for boxings popuarity over here, which is at a many year high (though that's probably going to end with Khan, Hatton, Calzaghe, Haye and possibly Froch all going back to subscrition channels).

The problems will be twofold; the promoters being greedy and wanting the higher HBO money, and the channels being scared to show something non safe and PC like boxing.

Hopefully some promoters will think long term and think it's worth taking a loss on some cards to build up new guys and re-invigorate interest in the sport.

 

Preach Pastor Presscot.

 

I like the idea of receiving a copy of the fight. But I would rather have a DVD than a VHS

 

in a smaller scale here in Quebec we got 2 network who diffuse local fight once a mounth! Both Network are big part for the developement and popularity here so i guess it cant be bad if it happens in US to and we can all enjoy it around the world!

 

boxing is alright, the only thing that would help is 1 champion per divison, forget network TV, combats do not attact big advertising money because what they are, people beating each other up.

 

Maybe it's time to get rid of the boxing promoters. The only purpose that they serve now is to prevent all of the best match-ups in the name of protecting their investment.

 

What are you talking about free to air TV, in USA like NBC,CBS,ABC or Fox, to have boxing on it, that is whats I'm talking about, these networks make there money by advertising and boxing is not a good sport to buy advertising for because it is combat people beating each other up and hell of alot big multi national companies won't nothing to do with these sports and it can finish at any time, say your a company a buy an add in a boxing program and you pay top dollar in the main event and it ends in the first round and your add is programed for in between the 5th and 6th round, you lose because alot of people change the channel because the event is over and hell of a lot less people see your add. But with team sports like football,baseball,soccer,cricket there is grantneed time the event runs and advertising is less risky, this is why boxing is good on cable TV because you pay for the channel like HBO or Showtime and some of your monthly fee you pay go's to boxing and the fights are made.

 

look man, why all the insults, this how the world works, this is why boxing in not on free to air tv, it's format is not great for TV advertisement and it is controlled violence, that it, There is shitloads of money in it, HBO and the likes of showtime will always support the sport because a massive base of it customs only have the channel because of the boxing and they know it.

 

I see your point, look I love to see boxing on free to air t.v, I'm only giving reason why, I love boxing, been around it all my life, You talk about all these other sports, hockey,American football and NBA, The major difference the violence is a minior site issue to the sport and not granteed to happen ever time, In boxing,MMA,Thai boxing, that what is all about, itis beating another person down, thats it, no bull**** and sorry to say with alot of companies they don't won't to part of it.