Struggling to give a damn about this sport

You just woke up and realized that boxing sucks and is full of duckers?

 

You make a lot of valid points.
But this has been the case for decades.
You must be very young.

The issues are the promoters & The networks they are tied too.
& it’s why TRUE Cash Cows like AJ or Canelo
Can actually force promoters into some of the fights they want. (Depending what kind of leverage Or time they have left on their contracts or if they have an exclusive deal)

For Canelo that was Bivol but in order to get the Bivol fight he had to fight GGG 3 as part of a package deal so DAZN could finally attempt to recoup / collect on that original GGG investment al those years ago.

 

Weird OP considering the number of recent unifications.

Crawford vs Spence is a debacle, no question, but otherwise most of the names on that list are either insignificant (Andrade) or don’t belong there (Fury).

 

Patience.

We get that good woman fight next week

Usyk is to blame for not getting blockbuster this December...but can we fault him for not rushing into Fury's big arms?

 

Fury fighting Chisora in December!!! It’s hard for anyone to defend this match up.

 

Hopefully we'll at least get to see Usyk vs Fury. After this, Fury will retire regardless of the result.

If Usyk retires, then it may be AJ vs Joyce or AJ vs Wilder for the vacate belts, so that's interesting I guess.

 

Focus on the fights that are happening that interest you. I’m looking forward to Lomachenko’s comeback. I hear his opponent is decent and possibly underrated so that’s a plus. Looking forward to the undercard too with Robeisy vs Magdaleno. Looking forward to Chocolatito vs Estrada. Prograis vs Zepeda. William Zepeda vs Diaz. Bivol vs Ramirez.

 

Would absolutely love to see this problem go away. I still watch boxing, but not nearly as closely as I once did, and the sanctioning bodies have a lot to do with it. If somebody, somehow rids the sport of the WBA, WBC, IBF, & WBO and gets it back to one belt....The Ring, or something like it...that would be a huge step towards fixing boxing's problems. There would be no shortcuts to "World" title belts. The best would have to fight the best. A little more oversight would be nice as well, maybe like a FIFA-type organization overseeing the sport. Seeing things like Don King buying rankings for fighters is beyond tiresome at this point. That kind of thing has gone on unchecked for way too long...

 

Honestly this is how I feel nowadays boxing was so much more fun and exciting in the 2000s now everyone too scared to risk their 0

But I will say this I think fans are major reason too as soon as a fighter loses they suddenly be seen as a bum or a fraud e.g Joshua, Lopez

 

The talking with a co-worker about what fights you watched over the weekend really resonates with me. That used to be a pretty regular conversation. Now the talk is about NFL football, NBA basketball and MMA. Here in America, even baseball is rarely talked about at work. The playoffs have started and the World Series is a couple of weeks away and there will, at most, be one guy beside myself who talks about it.

All of this being said and in all honesty, this web site has been a welcome haven for boxing conversations. Just about every weekend there is one fight or more that has an RBR thread along with follow up threads and conversations. While it's not quite the same as in person, it is an enjoyable replacement.

 

This is a new age and a new era. Its all about getting Top dollar purses nowadays. 1 million dollar purses wont cut it like it did back in the good days of boxing. 90's, early 2000s for me.