Boxing's Worst Enemy

And on ESB, if the fighter is Sergio Martinez, there are only 24 hours before he leaves the ring on a stretcher....

 

I think its cause of the availability of the sport to the mainstream as to why it doesnt get much coverage. On cable you only get 2nd class fighting and if you want to watch more quality fights you need to get HBO or Showtime and thats not even enough if you want to see the high profiled fights you would have to dish out $50 for a big fight for one night.

Can you imagine if football did something of the samething?

 

This is one of the side effects of having the boxing coverage go to the pay channels. Boxing isn't as easy to get hold of now and that makes the hype so much more. It's a shame but guys like Daniel Jacobs, who are good fighters, get tested too early and they're done. If that had happened 30 years ago, it would have been a set back but they'd be back on TV in a few weeks. Now that they aren't, the hype ends from HBO, Showtime, Sky etc., and they aren't given a chance by the stations to recover so the fans just copy that.

It's a vicious circle and actually a Catch 22 situation because boxing would be more appealing to the free TV channels, if boxers were allowed to bounce back, rather than be written off.

I do agree that there is far too much of a knee jerk reaction when a guy loses though. Styles make fights and that has to be understood. Rarely in boxing, do you see two top fighters which is actually decided simply by who the better man is. Usually, it's far more complex than that, which is why boxing is such an interesting sport.

 

Maybe this is true in the states but not so in the UK.
it's not just boxers that take a hammering from fans and media it's basically any high profile sportsmen and also upcoming prospects. The knives are out for them all wether
it be boxing, football, cricket or whatever one slip up either professionally or in their personal life their getting it from the media and the fans/haters.
I'm not saying this is right or wrong but what you have said regarding boxing could be said of any sport in the UK.

 

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it doesn't STOP media coverage but it minimizes it. The media eports whatever is going to interest the most people..

If a fight was on network TV, more people would see it, hence more media coverage.

Its not that PPVs are SO expensive, its that people flipping through the channels on a Saturday night usually don't go "Oh yeah I heard about that boxing match, I think I'll pay 55 bones to watch it".

Its NOT the fans.. WE scream for Haye-Wlad and get nothing. Pray for Pac-FMJ and get nothing..

We owe the promoters nothing.. Its their mess. They need to fix it

 

good point. it begins with free network tv

dana white created a brilliant business model. i was a MEGA ufc fan for years and black belt magazine created a list of things to do to save the ufc some years ago. hard to imagine but yes, it went bankrupt and no, there were no fans. it was worthless

then they changed the rules to make it a sport. then they got licensed in new states (creating more fans by grass roots methods). then they starting pitting the best against the best in weight classes. finally, and most importantly, they created the ultimate fighter show and here we are

the contender was **** and a joke. we need to bring boxer to the public, so that when the public tunes in once a year to a ppv it's not mayweather marquez but instead, tunes in weekly to saad muhammad vs lopez

 

I agree with people caring about losses too much. I've been at fights and the MC could say a guy has 34 wins, 1 loss and 2 draws and you hear people around you saying ''oh, that guy lost, he's probably a useless fighter''. I remember I was at Dunne-Poonsawat and even though Dunne had won the first 2 rounds, I knew he was going to get KO'ed soon because of the way he was fighting, and when I said it you could hear people around me saying ''that guy's an idiot, doesnt he know Poonsawat lost before?''.

 

i agree and this is why ;ess and less fighters are taking risks these days they need to rpotect ther records they know what will happen to a devastatin defeat thers alot of fighters i notice that can never get back onto hbo for big fights cas they dont have the backing anymore its a shame

 

PPV is boxing biggest enemy!

 

It's a harsh and brutal sport. It follows.
In all those other sports you mentioned players don't deliberately get hurt. When they get an injury it is usually the coach that forbids them to play, not the player. Etc. etc.

You statements looks like a sound observation on paper. But it's more complicated than that. Some of your points are valid though. But that is because boxing fans are generally fickle and fights are too few and far in-between that prevents making a consensus for say, if a fighter is really glass jawed or he just got unlucky.