Antics killing boxing!

Tyson and Lewis had a press conference brawl in 2002, five years later boxing hits its biggest PPV ever in Mayweather vs De La Hoya.

Okay.

 

"Nobody I know outside of boxing circles are talking about the antics."

plenty of people I know outside the circle are talking about it

 

Yeah, this is big news. It helps put boxing back into the consciousness of the General Public. Go Chisora!

 

based off the logic of what you said, it sure as hell anit hurting boxing either

 

WTF are you talking about, we have boring as **** boxers now and days, this **** is great for boxing.

 

Well actually, its kind of helping, considering the publicity and excitement these events are creating, so its bollocks. What's killing boxing is the fights not getting made, getting overhyped and then being a bowl of **** on the night, not this.

 

As a boxing fan, the **** guys like Chisora and Mayorga pull do nothing to interest me in wanting to see them fight.

I saw only the first 7 rounds of Vitali-Chisora, but nothing I saw from Chisora against Vitali would take me away from something better I had to do on a night.
I personally would not go out of my way to watch a Chisora fight.

All bark, little or no substance is of zerp interest to me.


As far as I'm concerned, Chisora tried harder to impress outside the ring than he did in......boxing my friends does not need that.

 

I know plenty of people who would not normally watch boxing who were telling me they would definitely watch these two fight if it gets made. Rightly or wrongly, this is the kind of thing that makes people tune into a fight.

 

The slap was great. Especially in the context of Chisora actually bringing the pain. I wish that he had more skill to bring it in the ring. I hate the water and bottle though. The water being just flat out nasty. The bottle being down right dangerous to the man's health. A few small shards in the eye and he could be out of a career. Same goes for some slicing of ligaments in Haye's hand.

Crazy antics and hype press conferences are good for Boxing. Antics are the draw that get more people to eventually fall in love with the Sweet Science and appreciate the Gentlemen Warriors. As true fans we hate it, but we have to understand it is a "necessary evil". Filth and street fight antics should be left to street thugs.

 

It's excitement; at this point in time I'll get whatever type of excitement I can from the Heavyweight division because the actual bouts aren't worth much of anything.

Are press conference brawls, riots, and other types of theatrics outside the ring a black eye to the sport, sure they are, but Boxing is a gladiatorial sport. It's silly to think everyone is supposed to have the split personality at all time.

Fans want fighters to act like warriors and willing to go out on their shield only to turn around a be this well mannered, soft spoken, teddy bear outside of the ring.

Antics have been around since the beginning and their in nearly every sport. Fighters having encounters outside the ring isn't killing Boxing.