How do you know when Boxing is Dead?

When fights are still doing 1 million buys and fighters are still making 15 mil per fight its not dead. Not even close.

Is there parity between boxing and UFC in America? Yes. Doesnt mean boxing is dead. Is baseball dead because its not as popular as football and basketball anymore? No.

 

1-When it loses top billing on places like HBO and Showtime

2- When it stops bringing in money

3- When it stops being an Olympic sport

4- When Yuri Foreman faces Sergio Martinez

 

Other sport's will die off first.... That's a guarantee.

 

Boxing is not dead, though it's suffering through a recession here in America, like the economy. The younger generation 13-27, tends to be all about the UFC, it currently is the new fad. I see all these ***s at college sporting tap out and affliction shirts, thinking because they lift weights that suddenly makes them tough.

In any event, I have personally seen many boxing gyms in and around my part of town close down, one was made into a fight club/MMA gym. This made me pretty sad, to see a gym I once trained in growing up, is now a MMA joint. I hate to say it, boxing is no longer mainstream in America. There is no star power left now, the Tyson's, DLH's, and RJJ's are on their way out or retired. Guys like Pac and Mayweather are all we got left that as the average person knows name wise.

 

Well that's nobody's fault BUT boxing.

MMA is only big because of the ineptitude of the people in charge of boxing.

 

When there are no fights going on anymore of course.

 

When Nas makes a rap about it.

 

No sense in arguing. He's just trying to reinforce what he likes. The proof is in the pudding. IMO UFC is cheesy and the fact is it will never surpass boxing.

 

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I can't disagree with you on that, but it also doesn't help that there is no excitement in the sport as far as a fighters character is concerned. I watched a UFC ppv over a buddies house, and I watched Brock Lesnar act like a complete tool when everyone booed him. Then it occured to me, Brock is just playing the game, wether you hate or love him, you want to see the freak fight. His comments about hating gays, only increased his popularity, the guy knows how to promote himself, something I see very little of in boxing today.

 

Some of you younger fans really need to get one thing through your heads. Boxing died on March 29, 1966. The Ali/Chuvalo fight killed it. At least, that's what all the experts said.:nut

 

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When it evacuates its bowels