Should we hype up the ring entrances and 'the event' to bring in the casual fans?

I'm in agreement with the haters; there's nothing like the organic atmosphere prevalent before a competitive fight; be it the UK, Mexico, the US, anywhere. I'll take a quick explosive ring walk, and a genuinely hyped up crowd over some musical lubricated, prerecorded clap-trap and light show, punctuated by a corridor of heavy bags and topped off by a one-sided beat down of a bum, any day of the week.

 

We are assuming the fight would be a good match up, we arent talking about Klitchko fights.

 

What do you mean, there wont be any of those!

 

Well in that case why do we need the BS then? Oh to get the casuals on side! Fck the casuals, if the upshot of pandering to them is the universal implementation of this inane BS. You start down that road of selling 'the event' rather than the fight and it's a slippery slope in which the fight, and more importantly, the actual composition of the fight, becomes an increasingly secondary matter.

 

nowt wrong with a bit of razmataz

 

If you was at Upton Park for the Kevin Mitchell fight you would not want "Big" entrances ever again!!!!!!!!!

Cockney ****ing rejects and that ditsy **** off x factor doing the national anthem,My ears were bleeding!!

 

The big fights certainly need to be more of an 'event'.

Look at Pac's last few fights, Top Rank didn't go all German but the intros were great. They had the big screen above the ring playing the "this is boxing" promo video, Buffer doing his thing, great lighting and that really got the crowd up for the fight.

And when you're watching it on telly it feels like a special event.

Too many times we have big/meaningful fights that have **** atmospheres or half-empty arenas and it doesn't look good for the sport.