Fury v Wilder is officially off

Including the two judges that were British you mean?

 

Yes obviously including them, think it was only one British judge if I remember correctly. Very sad day for boxing, one of the first times experiencing how corrupt the sport really is.

 

LMAO fury landed single digit punches per round and this is what woke you up to corruption in boxing?

 

Holy-Bowe was fought on a much higher skill level. Fury is skilled for a man his size, he's not very skilled as such. Make him Holy's size, everything else unchanged, and he probably wouldn't be a top 10 CW, let alone a top 10 HW.

I agree on a Lewis-Vitaly, though. Great battle, but not impressive in terms of skill.

 

So only your perception and enjoyment of the sport matters? Do you think when there are no fans left there’s going to be as many fighters and match ups for you to enjoy? Do you think there will be as many young fighters in the gym? What an idiotic and short sighted view. You’re not really a boxing fan, you just have a pretentious, elitist, selfish view on it.

 

Talk about idiotic and short-sighted, you really believe there is an ever-diminishing number of boxing fans in the world? And that a couple of heavyweights are going to stave off this inevitable dwindling to zero?

Boxing is self-sustaining, and has been despite having been relegated to niche status for the bulk of both our lifetimes, and through all of the HW division's lean times. Small hall shows featuring all bouts south of 200lbs (or even south of MW) continue to sell enough at the gate to be worth staging - in many cases sell out (despite tickets being not exactly cheap; at the very least each admittance pays the cost of a movie ticket) - around the world, on a weekly if not daily basis. There's a built-in, eager audience who aren't going anywhere.

Unlike you, I've spent enough time in gyms, training and coaching, to know that nobody for the most part - not even star-eyed newbies walking in for the first time - shares in this weird fetishistic romanticized view of heavyweights of yours. No kid is walking into a gym to give boxing a try because they happen to know or care who the heavyweight titlists are.

Selfish? I'm using myself in example, standing in for all real boxing fans. Heavyweight junkies =/= real boxing fans.