Joe Calzaghe- I think Boxing Is A Dying Sport

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  1. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Europeans? Try Part time Cab Drivers and roadsweepers. Joe fought them all..:roll:
     
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  2. walk with me

    walk with me Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    If he thinks boxing is a dead sport he's insulting himself really...

    i dont think lebron james would ever say basketball is a dead sport as long as he's around
    or tom brady say football is dead

    look in the mirror joe
     
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  3. Cobbler

    Cobbler Shoemaker To The Stars Full Member

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    I'm sure that if either of those sports were struggling to the extent boxing is (in the US at least) that senior players would consider it appropriate for them to speak out about it.
     
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  4. walk with me

    walk with me Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    exactly & its not because they are in it

    lebron james may go down as the best player ever....
    tom brady may go down as the best qb ever...

    nobody is trying to miss these athletes perform... so that basically explains what calzaghe means to boxing
     
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  5. marting

    marting Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Pacquiao/de la Hoya does 1.25 million ppv's buys.

    UFC saturday night programming numbers are dropping like a rock. The Kimbo Slice phenomena has evaporated and he's hinting at a boxing career.

    Boxing is dying?

    It sounds more like Calzaghe is bitter that his PPV numbers weren't better.
    What Calzaghe fails to realize is that an over the hill Jones didn't pique interests and the truth is Jones has never been a PPV monster even when he was less long of tooth.
     
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  6. walk with me

    walk with me Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    im about to check all time sales to see hwo paq vs de la hoya measures up to fights of the past
     
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  7. Cobbler

    Cobbler Shoemaker To The Stars Full Member

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    That makes no sense. At all.

    Partly because even dumb limeys like me know that Tom Brady is out for the season and I haven't noticed any signs that the NFL is disintergrating without him. Have viewing figures plumetted? Are the Patriots having to pay people to come watch them. Nope, the NFL can survive just fine without Tom Brady or any individual player you care to mention. Because the structure of the game is designed to give people what they want to watch.

    The structure of boxing is not designed at any level to deliver to the consumer what they want.
     
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  8. scurlaruntings

    scurlaruntings ESB 2002 Club Full Member

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    Precisely. Jones historically much like PBF was never a fighter who did very well at the gate.
     
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  9. walk with me

    walk with me Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    De La Hoya-Trinidad (1,400,000 buys),
    Holyfield-Lewis I (1,200,000),
    Holyfield-Lewis II (850,000),
    De La Hoya-Quartey (570,000).
    De La Hoya-Mayorga (925,000 buys).
    Rahman-Maskaev w 50,000.
    Oscar De La Hoya VS Floyd Mayweather Jr. 2.5 million buyers.

    The leading PPV seller is Oscar De La Hoya,[citation needed] who has sold approximately 12.8 million units total, giving $612 million in domestic television receipts.[citation needed] In third place in buys is Evander Holyfield, with 12.6 million units ($543 million), and in second in Mike Tyson, with 12.4 million units ($545 million).[citation needed][3]



    boxing cant be too dead if oscar vs paq out performed all of these fights & tied odlh vs tito
     
    walk with me, Dec 11, 2008
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  10. Cobbler

    Cobbler Shoemaker To The Stars Full Member

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    And when De La Hoya retires?
     
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  11. walk with me

    walk with me Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    promoters will face the decision of choosing a new cash cow

    a new boxer to spend all their promotional money in

    could be margarito - could be cotto - could be floyd - could be paul williams - could be david haye - could be kelly pavlik

    their all viable candidates to deserve all the attention an oscar de la hoya might get... its just up to the powers that be to spend that $$
     
    walk with me, Dec 11, 2008
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  12. TBE

    TBE The Boxing Enthusiast Full Member

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    Yeah, I really can't disagree with him. :(

    IMO,
    TBE
     
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  13. walk with me

    walk with me Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    ^^^

    he has a point but oscar vs manny did 1.25

    really?
     
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    Bump.
     
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