Boxing : Where To Now?

[Debopam Roy]

I figured this would be as good a section to post this thread as any.

With the rise of MMA, Boxing has taken a backseat. No new boxers of note have risen. In fact, i daresay Mike Tyson was the last one to take the world by storm. The Current generation are too bland, uninteresting. This looks like as far as boxing goes. Its slowly reaching its end. Unless some new prodigy rises, the sport we all love could perish someday. This is a maddeningly important situation! Your thoughts?

P.S. Big shout out to Manny Pacquiao. He got a lot of Fillipinos interested in boxing. The Boxing fraternity owes it to him to help sustain the popularity of the sport.

[joseph5620]

I figured this would be as good a section to post this thread as any.

With the rise of MMA, Boxing has taken a backseat. No new boxers of note have risen. In fact, i daresay Mike Tyson was the last one to take the world by storm. The Current generation are too bland, uninteresting. This looks like as far as boxing goes. Its slowly reaching its end. Unless some new prodigy rises, the sport we all love could perish someday. This is a maddeningly important situation! Your thoughts?

P.S. Big shout out to Manny Pacquiao. He got a lot of Fillipinos interested in boxing. The Boxing fraternity owes it to him to help sustain the popularity of the sport.

If you're truly only 17, that partially explains the nonsense you just posted.

[Anthony342]

I wouldn't say total nonsense. Boxing being at its end, yes that I wouldn't agree with. Holyfield was pretty popular after Tyson, not as much though. Mayweather and Pacquiao both draw huge PPV numbers for their fights, but they are nearing the ends of their careers. There is also Andre Ward and Yuriorkis Gamboa. If they were more promoted, they might be more notable, they deserve to be IMO. There are plenty of interesting fighters out there. They just aren't mentioned enough of as often as they would've been years ago, when boxing had more major network coverage. Donaire, Cotto and Kirkland are 3 such examples. The rise of MMA and more younger fans watching that than boxing I would agree with though.

[The Surgeon]

Boxing is just fine its going nowhere

[likeamulekick]

Boxing will end when an asteroid the size of gods fist left hooks the planet or when are hands evolve into vibrators

[The Surgeon]

Boxing will end when are hands evolve into vibrators

This will only serve to increase compubox punch stats!

[Rockin']

I figured this would be as good a section to post this thread as any.

With the rise of MMA, Boxing has taken a backseat. No new boxers of note have risen. In fact, i daresay Mike Tyson was the last one to take the world by storm. The Current generation are too bland, uninteresting. This looks like as far as boxing goes. Its slowly reaching its end. Unless some new prodigy rises, the sport we all love could perish someday. This is a maddeningly important situation! Your thoughts?

P.S. Big shout out to Manny Pacquiao. He got a lot of Fillipinos interested in boxing. The Boxing fraternity owes it to him to help sustain the popularity of the sport.

boxing will never die. while mma offers much more brutal scenes than boxing does it will always be a rather barbaric and crude sport, what the f is a hammer punch...lol.

boxing is an art of precision. while ground and pound will satisfy the absolute blood thirsty boxing will remain the gentlemans art.

while there has been a decline in boxing in America it is growing as a world sport.

I prefer the ring to any octagon out there............ Rockin'

[Debopam Roy]

You people misunderstood my point. Maybe because I may have phrased it wrong. What I meant was, MMA is dominating the fighting sports world. Take the teenagers in America, they'd rather pay to watch an Anderson Silva fight than any boxing match. Boxing will continue, don't get me wrong in on this account. But, do you see it returning to its former glory? Like the 70s, 80s? Its only going downhill, it is not making progress. And as we all know, if you do not make progress, you will ultimately perish, or fade into obscurity.

Also, I disagree with Rockin's point. Boxing, at least in Asia, is in a poor state. Its the same like everywhere else. The younger generation is preferring to delve into MMA fights. Especially the Thais, because the MMA rules allow them to integrate their national sport in it.

And as for Anthony, I get what you are saying, but that's the whole point, isn't it? Unless the fighters get publicity the sport will not gain popularity. What happens when a sport does not get popular? It sinks! Think wrestling. There was a time back in Greece and Rome when wrestling was the toast of the day. Now look at it, its not even an Olympic sport!

[Hailow]

mma is banned in Thailand

[likeamulekick]

You people misunderstood my point. Maybe because I may have phrased it wrong. What I meant was, MMA is dominating the fighting sports world. Take the teenagers in America, they'd rather pay to watch an Anderson Silva fight than any boxing match. Boxing will continue, don't get me wrong in on this account. But, do you see it returning to its former glory? Like the 70s, 80s? Its only going downhill, it is not making progress. And as we all know, if you do not make progress, you will ultimately perish, or fade into obscurity.

Also, I disagree with Rockin's point. Boxing, at least in Asia, is in a poor state. Its the same like everywhere else. The younger generation is preferring to delve into MMA fights. Especially the Thais, because the MMA rules allow them to integrate their national sport in it.

And as for Anthony, I get what you are saying, but that's the whole point, isn't it? Unless the fighters get publicity the sport will not gain popularity. What happens when a sport does not get popular? It sinks! Think wrestling. There was a time back in Greece and Rome when wrestling was the toast of the day. Now look at it, its not even an Olympic sport!

I gotta say actually that I saw a youtube clip of anderson silva and he looks like the jack Johnson of mma. Boxing took a century before we had Whitakers, mayweathers and Alis, and mma has many more aspects, does anyone know of any mma fighters that have held the belt and dominated it for years without losing? When it gets to that stage ill probably watch it more but id always pick a big boxing match over a big mma fight.