As I've been saying since 2003 and as has already been proven without the need of my help, Boxing will outlive the idiotic author of that article and the simpletons that agree with him.
F that article. Another generation of superstars will come. Perhaps they need to focus on non traditionally televised divisions as some of the lighter divisions are stacked with talent.
The sad part of all this is The Mayweather-Pacquaio fight while being one of the biggest $$$$$ making fights ever could also reduce boxing to the level of pro wrestling. The world is watching this fight Vegas had the chance to prove to the world that it is the worlds best boxing venue. All fighters here will get a fair shake & may the best man win But to do this Vegas will have to curb the blatant bias toward Floyd Mayweather . Officials that in my opinion , have shown extreme bias to Mayweather have once again been assigned the fight so it does not appear anything has changed. I sincerely hope I'm wrong in this & the fight is officiated straight down the middle with no favoritism to either man& the best man on May 2 gets the win
I think I saw this exact article before Mayweather vs Hoya atsch This has been said practically every other era in boxing. And right now boxing is doing very well, probably the best its been at since Ive been a fan. Will it dip in the coming years? Possibly..... with a resurgence to follow that, no doubt. It will have ups and downs like anything. But die? Pure idiocy. People will be cheering the sport and its champions long after this writer has died and been forgotten. The people that spew this drivel highlight their own incompetence.
I remember, clear as day, that ESPN and all of the critics said that Tyson-Lewis would be the last significant boxing match ever again. That answers everything you need to know. Indoor football is a dying sport, even if the best indoor football player existed no one wants to watch. If a prime tyson or ali type fighter came out today, there would be a planet of people wanting to watch him fight.
Boxing will always carry on but its fast becoming another Pro Wrestling most non boxing fans think the fights are all fixed like wrestling. With some of the decisions & shennanikins of late going on Who can really blame them
after ali, boxing was dead, then came leonard, then boxing died, and along came tyson, boxing was dead again- and everyone thought stars had to be heavyweights, but then came oscar. after oscar- people said on TV for crissakes- that no small fighter could be stars or inspire the world. and here we are . the biggest event in boxing history- two smaller than average guys- lightweights essentially. boxing will go into a lull again, I'm sure- but I'm more sure, that it will be revived bigger and better. it always does. boxing more than any other sport- relies on the stars. there will always be new stars up and coming, but this time- i think the stars will come from new parts of the world, the filipinos, asia, etc. plus the old states of russia, cuba, pr, mexico and of course america. These two guys- will inspire a whole new generation of fighters.
This fellow has his own take on why boxing is dying which I've never heard before. Through all the "white this" and "white that" jargon I managed to ascertain that boxing's popularity is just a function of white supremacy and racist culture exerting it's will against the black man in order to keep him down. After the civil rights movement, and now that Obama is president things are looking up for black people who will no longer be forced to fight for the white man's amusement. He kind of overlooks the 19th century when the sport was all British, or the early decades when there were tons of Irish and Jewish fighters, or how in recent decades we've had the rise of Mexico and Eastern Europe. I think he's wrong about everything; but I can see how if all you think is important is race, you can come to his kind of conclusions about history.
