Pacquiao vs Mayweather...Saves boxing?

Yawn.

 

I agree that getting every boxer under one "umbrella" would be great. Match making would be much smoother so you don't have people trying to keep money in house. Also way too many belts floating around.

When you say who is the champion? Why is it meaningful? I'm not sure that matters as much since it's on HBO/SHO. Even if they know are people really gonna go pay for SHO/HBO because they know who the champ is? That would help for PPV though.

How much of the sports watching population has HBO/SHO? It's a small percentage. You're limiting your potential audience greatly by having it on a premium channel. How are people supposed to know who fighters are if they never get to watch them?

Boxing needs to find a way in order to be accessible to the mainstream. With the current structure the boxing audience is maxed out. It can't grow because it's not reaching any new people.

 

Boxing goes on with or without either of them.
Always has, Always will.

A new generation always comes...

 

I think it'll be a **** spectacle though.

 

Saves Boxing from what exactly?

 

It definatley would put boxing on the front-page, this FIGHT. There are passionate fans on both sides and some who are in the middle. If this fight gets an all out promotion which I beleive it will ( commercials, magazine covers, tv interviews, late night shows), this fight can sell 4 million and give boxing a big boost. But, boxing is here to stay regardless.

 

If any fight must happen to "Save" Boxing, then Boxing is dead folks and the funeral is Tuesday. No fight will determine if boxing lives or dies, just like no game will determine if basketball lives or dies.