Calzaghe: Boxing is dying!

Well that should change, agree?

 

The housewife on the street wouldn't have known Holyfield and would barely even have known Lewis. Possibly not Benn either.

There are still massive numbers for the right PPV's, there isn't really any statistical evidence to support his boxing is dying rubbish

Calzaghe is simply quite a bitter kind of personality, that's all I put it down to

He did have a point about too many belts though, it quite siomply allows the best to avoid fighting the best

 

There isn't really any statistical evidence to support this.

 

I don't think that you can be "brutally exposed" when you jump up just about two weight divisions to fight a bona fide ATG and get beaten.

 

But the guy was supposedly a top p4p fighter and hyped as being able to brutalise Calzaghe, and those things were exposed as being untrue...

Pavlik is a good fighter nonetheless.

 

It's more that the people loudly claiming those things about Pavlik were brutally exposed than Pavlik himself was.

 

Bit harsh comparing Calzaghe's PPV drawing power with DLH (the biggest PPV machine in history)

DLH has been keeping the boxing PPV numbers up almost on his own.

But DLH is finished.. So whos going to keep the money rolling in now?

 

Touche lol

 

Boxing is on life support..fact.

 

Pac v oscar just did 1.25 million ppv compaired to 225,000 Calzaghe v Jones.

 

Im starting to think the same.

Whos going to fill the massive void left by DLH? HBO will struggle without his name pulling in a millions of PPV buys.

 

Why is that even relevant? A ****** could have predicted those figures..its a DLH fight for christs sake!

But with the Golden boy gone so are the million + ppv buys in the states.

 

Just last year Mayweather V Hatton did excellent numbers, as did Cotto V Margo this summer.

UK wise boxing is bigger then it has been for a long, long time!

 

I think they would know who Calzaghe, Hatton and perhaps Pac are. Wasn't Calzaghe this year voted Sports personality of the year by the British public?

Boxing may be having a hard time, in someways, in the states but there are many other places where it's picked up... former eastern block countries, the far east... it's big in Germany now, and as big in the UK as it has been for a decade or more. As mentioned elsewhere the figures don't match up with the argument also, Boxing is still shifting huge units...