How boxing lost its magic...

Does anybody else no longer watch boxing but still follow it?
I’ve struggled to come up with a thread title to convey my feelings for boxing but am not sure if this captures it (and I don’t want come across like a whiner). after 10 years of being a fairly hardcore fan I finally got sick of the bullish!t and felt like I could no longer financially support the sport, even though I loved it and still follow it faithfully. I’d like to start another thread about how magic boxing can be to offset this more negative thread but for now here is a list of reasons that killed it for me...
1) Golden Boy Promotions- when Oscar announced his plans to start his own promotional company it sounded great. After having sued and won against, “the biggest Jew to come out of Harvard” Oscar stated that he was going to do things different. It made sense; if any start up company could compete against the ultra villains of arum and king it’d be the golden boy. A good looking, media savvy, wealthy, bilingual, HOFer like Oscar seemed to be the man. So what was his first order of business? To poach Manny Pacquiao away from arum with a duffle bag full of cash a la Don King and hasim rahman. So much for doing things different. This launched the Cold War and boxing fans were worse off.
Richard Schaefer: Oscar brings this guy in and suddenly he’s everywhere. We're constantly told that he’s a Swiss banker and he becomes more prevalent than the fighters themselves!
Ring Magazine: I used to look forward to buying the Ring. I liked Nigel Collins, will detloff and Eric Raskin. Oscar fired the whole staff with no announcement and that was that.
Fishnets...no need to comment any further...
2) Bob Arum - “ F*** the fans!” Unaware that his mic was on, bob spoke truthfully about how he really felt. Not that boxing fans didn’t have our suspicions but he confirmed them in what might be the only time he said anything truthful in public.
3) Increasing pay per views: both increasing prices and more frequently
4) The proliferation of belts, the alphabet groups in general and the best avoiding the best
5) Manny Pacquiao and catchweights. Forcing Cotto and margarito to melt down but still making them put their belts on the line.
6) The rise of Money: Floyd was arrogant as hell when he started but at 130 the dude was a flat out assassin. He backed up his arrogance in the ring. But after Money, the guy was insufferable and hbo helped enable him. His ducking of prime margarito and Manny, all the while insisting he was better than Leonard and Robinson, only to fight Guerrero, Ortiz, etc just became too much. Fair play to him though, he made hundreds of millions.
7) Bad scoring, either due to incompetence or corruption...

Anyhoo, I could go on but that’s about it. At my high point of being a fan I was probably spending about $1500 a year on cable tv, ppv, magazines and even some boxing lessons. But the bull poop became just too much. Anybody else out there know where I’m coming from?

 

Fair enough

 

Pardon my ignorance, but what happened?

 

I had already stopped watching boxing by then but I did watch that fight because my buddy had ordered it and was throwing a party. Watching that was like having sex with an ugly broad, not even coming and getting herpes to top it off