Popularity and PPV's importance with boxing fans

It`s up to the fighter to be charismatic, like a RAy Leonard or an Ali, you have to be an interesting personality in interviews.

 

Fights just need to start fighting better opposition the amount of mismatches has killed all interest in boxing and the amount of ppvs with terrible undercards and uninteresting main events is astounding, say what you want about Mayweather but his undercards were most of the time filled with great fights

 

As far as I can tell boxing keeps getting put behind pay walls like DAZN etc...the sport is becoming evermore a niche product. After being on "free" tv the sport moved to premium services such as ESPN / TSN and HBO immediately limiting exposure. Then the price....they made the jump to 100 bucks for the Mayweather / Pac debacle. I haven't met anyone that felt like they got their moneys worth with that PPV. Frankly no PPV is worth a hundred bucks to me. They have begrudgingly come down to about 80bucks which is still too much. And to top it off they now have commercials, so they really aren't even PPVs anymore! When I started watching PPVs they were marketed as being commercial free. That was the reason you paid to see it. Now that PPVs are the norm they are going back to adding commercials. Always trying to get more, all the while providing a poorer and poorer product. I'm not sure what demographic watches boxing the most. Over the last 20 years or so I've seen PPV prices go from 25bucks cdn to a hundred. Nobody I know has quadrupled their earnings in the same period, but I'm just a blue collar 40hour a week worker.

 

As much as i want ppv to die i worry what happens if the model dies

I like seeing ppv numbers dip as an fu to the system

However i wonder if its a sign that the sport lacks interest and if it can survive as an app based sport

 

I’m semi “trolling,”
Back in the day we used to call it “joking”
I like playing with words tho & don’t mean any harm.

I will say this about Jake Paul,
not so much his brother.

I think he does love boxing.
I think he legit wants to baby step his way up into the sport & he seems to be pulling the boxers that he employs on his undercards & co main events up with him as far as compensation for their services are concerned he pays them career paydays.

I say good for him & hilariously enough it technically is good for the sport in that regard.

 

Ive posted this so many times before and i mean no disrespect to any active current boxer reading this but all of the boxers today have no charisma or relatability to the general public so its hard to become a global superstar. Boxing popularity has always run through the heavyweight division and sometimes lower weights once in a while, for examples: canelita is cold, curses like a 10 year old kid and barren, fury talks a lot and makes people laugh and but people can see his persona is too fake, joshua gets anybody depressed, wilder says he wants to kill people, usyk is too intimidating for people, whyte is too disrespectful. Yes boxing still makes money and people like to watch but the world doesnt stop what they are doing like they did with dempsey, tyson, and ali which commanded the worlds attention. These boxers, managers and promoters dont understand the mixture of qualities for a superstar and i wont type it out but people want to watch a boxer that they can also see themselves sitting down and hanging out with them.