Did the Haye Chisora brawl hurt Boxings image?

it all depends on you ask. i got everyones attention thats for sure. but the say all e attention is not good attention.so to each is own, personally dont bother me either way. it did not have to happen but it did so its like oh oh well type **** with me.

 

No it hasn't. All that's happening is the media are saying it has - about 20x the amount of media who would have previously been covering boxing. It has got ridiculous of media attention all over the world, mainly negative - but thats what the press do, they take the moral high ground.

However, the average working man across the world will make their own minds up, they go to check out the videos for themselves and have a good old chuckle about it. People who hadn't heard of either man on Friday night would now be tuning in if they end up fighting each other.

Seriously, go on something like newsnow and see the amount of publications who are reporting on this incident. It's gone viral. Every local paper from Itchyballs, Idaho to Chongwong, China has picked this up. Sure, some of those readers will look down their noses at the sport - but you can bet the majority will have find it funny as **** and want to see 'those two guys who had the fight at the press conference' get it on in the ring.

All that's happened is boxing is getting more attention than it has in years. And let's be honest, the only other boxing news that has penetrated the mainstream in recent years is the bull**** about the two top fighters in the sport not fighting each other.

 

And that's the bottom line.

 

No such thing as bad publicity. I agree it probably doesnt help boxings image but it doesnt hurt it much either. The way I see it, we now get the possibility of an intriguing match up in the heavyweight division, instead of the usual, klitschko vs a poor sap. No one was even considering the thought of Haye vs Chisora til saturday night. I also think it might help bring in some mma fans, who arguably are more into violence and blood than the boxing fan. All in all the incident my be a good thing....

 

brawl happens all the time in any sport, no reputation were ruined, boxing is no different!!!

 

i dont think it did, boxers have been getting into it outside of the ring for awhile, mike tyson obviousely, Chisora -Haye, Berbick and Holmes, Holmes runs up a car and drop kicks Berbick, Lennox Lewis and Hasim Rahman going at it on a ESPN interview between the two..and plenty more to come i imagine

 

Not at all.............. Everybody wants to watch the train wreck

 

No.

 

Nobody watches boxing anyway so they don't have an image of it to begin with. When things like this happen, suddenly people talk about it for a few days and then it's business as usual again.

People act like this has never happened before. Lewis-Tyson was a much bigger fight but it was the pre-fight scuffle that got most of the media attention, and people forgot about it after a while.

 

boxing made page 3 for the first time in years because of this brawl, where-as its barely ever mentioned even in the sports section.

how many people knew dereck chisora before this incident? a hell of a lot less than know him now, it was also the fact that news stories about the fight also showed clips of him slapping and spitting on the Ks, which again most people didnt know about, and today it mentioned chisoras previous assaults on his girlfriend and a police officer.

so what people saw was the scumbag enemy of Vitali Klitschko,who was praised for putting on a brave performance, and his trainer, getting their asses beat down by the loud-mouth enemy of Wladimir Klitschko, who was scrutinized for fighting like a coward and blaming his toe.

how is that not interesting?

 

If this is what constitutes being 'on the run' then I'd like some please

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I just like the fact we had a couple of days without the mayweather ducking PAC or PAC ducking mayweather threads

 

Casual people have already a violent image of boxing, even though they know nothing about the sport, so I would not say it had affected it. I mean at the end of the day what they did was fighting and boxing is also about fighting...