Rip boxing

boxing is here to stay

 

Too American-centric.

Globally boxing is much healthier overall.

 

TBH tread-starter is stirring. That BAD was excellent on paper, sometimes they just don't catch fire like they did last week, Kellerman and HBO had nothing to defend.

UFC 96 was an extremly lackluster card on paper and on PPV, it certainly wasn't stacked and the headliner was a mismatch. And I dont quite get what the fact that he watched the UFC on a Samsung has to do with anything.

My mum know's nothing about boxing but knows several fighters, she didn't even know what the UFC was when I asked her.

I don't mind boxing getting critizised when it deserves, and I don't mind the UFC being praised when it deserves it. But HBO can be more proud of the show they tried to put on on Saturday than the UFC can be, and that goes for the whole of 2009 so far actually.

 

UFC, for me, was a lot more exciting in the mid-90's when there weren't rules. At least, that's how I remember it. Boxing will never die because there will never stop being impoverished young males around the world. It's a poor man's sport if you will; a way to focus your anger/frustration/etc. for your life's problems.

 

FACT: UFC will NEVER top BOXING!!! EVER!!!

 

So, if you asked your girlfriend who David Wright or Johan Santana or Ryan Howard was, do you think she'd know? You think that means baseball is dying? I'm not sure "the girlfriend test" is a big one to pass.

Boxing will always have its core audience. The sanctioning bodies will continue to be a problem, but it does look like HBO is trying to put together better cards. As bad cards (like Calzaghe/Jones) do poor numbers, the free cards are getting better, the PPV ones fewer.

It is possible (likely?) that there isn't a mainstream PPV crossover star in boxing's future (Manny may be able to be it), but that doesn't mean boxing dies. Just because there aren't 2 PPV's a year that do 1.5 million buys doesn't sink the sport - the $$ from them only go to a select number of people anyway, they don't "enrich the sport". If anything, that'll make HBO/Showtime put on better cards.

 

You said that boxing is falling away as a mainstream support, cause you asked 1 girl and she couldn't tell you anything. That could be said with any other sport. A friend of mine knows nothing about UFC or MMA. I know nothing about soccer. Get my point?