Are boxers under 140 pounds now invisible again to media/fans?

It's a common thing... the bigger you are the more attractive you will be to the public because knockouts are that just more epic.

HW will always be the premier weight division in any combat sport, it's the best feeling to see someone north of 240 pounds go timber. You know any HW can go down with 1 punch because of how much force is generated from someone in that division punching.

No other division does that for you. Not even close.

 

I have always enjoyed 135 and under because of the non stop action and in the flip side I enjoy MW and above due to KO power.
I also like to score fights and the lower weights are always the most enjoyable because there are 100s of punches thrown each round.

Anyway After that embarrassing ramble I have no answer to the question

 

Nice points and on the flip side you have 500 punches per round with no holding

 

These statements simply are not true.

In many countries boxing HWs particularly Asia aren't even followed or watched as its seen as bad quality ugly fighting.

Take Muay Thai for example. HW Muay Thai is actually seen as the worst weight division, Its seen as ugly, slow and technically bereft except for a very few men of that size. The sport favours a smaller more agile body. Many HW fighter fail to pull of basic techniques correctly or in a fluid manner, this makes for ugly one dimensional fights, yawn fests. KOs at 70 kilos and below are way more exciting as many more dramatic techniques are used and you usually get a helluva back and forth before hand because the talent pool is much bigger and fitter. With top level MT & KB you usually get the same small group of maybe 5 to 8 guys fighting each other over and over for over a decade due to the tiny talent pool of big guys.

I'm not sure about MMA but doesn't Conner who isn't a HW pulls in more PPVs than any HW and has captured the public imagination in a massive way. And hell TBE in boxing who pulls in the biggest bills is a welterweight not a HW.

 

Superfly I and II had better ratings than Garcia-Lipiniets, which was supposed to be a huge fight.
Santa Cruz cracks over a million households when he fights.

 

To be honest, a few people on here have pointed in the direction of great fighters at the lower weights and educated me on them.

I love boxing, watch and read as much as I can but some of you lot are relentless, the knowledge is very impressive.

I'm surprised boxers inside leg measurements, what they had for breakfast, favourite colours are not mentioned in some posts LOL

 

You're way off, proportionately. It wasn't like interest south of lightweight peaked 20 years ago but is dropping now, more like it has been on a steady incline with a bit of ebb & flow depending on the star(s) of the day. Finito had a fanbase and could draw both a live gate and some viewers on TV but the idea of him co-headlining a big HBO event like Chocolatito was starting to do on a regular basis just before his bubble was burst, would've been unheard of in those days. MAB/JMM/Morales/Tapia/Hamed/later Pac brought the feather range solid attention for a while but much south of bantam it has NEVER been marketable until Chocolatito started to (finally, pretty considerably deep into his career actually, LONG after the diehards were shouting ourselves hoarse from the mountaintop about him) break into the mainstream.

 

Don't forget Donaire. He headlined on HBO once he was a five weight champ at bantam, but the Rigo and Walters losses sent him back to the bottom of the deck. I feel like Tapia got a little rhythm being a five time three weight champ with an exciting style too.

Jorge Paez was possibly the last boxing star on regular tv. He had a mohawk and used to do flips in the ring because he was a trained circus performer or something. NBC loved him because he got millions of viewers and fought about ten times a year. He was a featherweight, if I recall. And before him there was of course Ray Mancini who commanded ratings in the millions.

 

Lomachenko is extremely popular boxer and he is under 140 lbs.................

 

To become a superstar it's not about just being good, it's about being marketable, being differerent, being controversial, no one below 140 fits the bill.

Imagine if Adrien Broner stayed in the gym and at 140lbs and Maidana never happened and he stay dedicated and focused. He would of been so big right now.

 

it's not 140, but it's "below Lomachenko".