read an articl about boxing being a dying sport...

[Kball15]

They said that DON KING was gonna bring this sport back. Idk much about promoters or don king, but i do know that he ripped tyson off for something like 40 million dollars. I hate this guy and i doubt he can bring the sport back.

And the article writer also said that there hasnt been a good fight in years. CARRALES CATSTILLO!!!!! that was a fantastic fight. He also said that HBO and SHOWTIME havent had any huge money raisers.

TYSON had 3 fights which summed up to 160 million bucks back when he was fighting lewis and stuff
3 big championship fights summed up 33 million bucks nowadays!

HUGE DIFFERENCE. i gotta agree with him there... but boxing is a sport that will never die. Its not in like a league or anthing, where they can just call the whole thing off like they did for the NHL. And when it does start losing money, they should just cut it down to one champion per weight class.

Instead of having 90 champions at a time, and someone winning or losing a belt hardly meaning anything, have like 6 champions at a time. The problems with boxing are very easy to fix, and they should get on them now before its to late

[bigdlb12]

back when tyson was fight Lewis? LMAO
3 fights 160 mil , yeah right

[SAN D13GO VILLAN]

I think boxing is doing allot better this year, HBO has allot of good fights coming up and I even have to take my hat of to ESPN because they been doing allot better them self!

[XionComrade]

They gotta keep their heads on strait, stop thinking about this multimillion dollar crap. I mean you can live richly your whole life on 10 million, who in the hell needs 160 million? It is rediculous and is causeing all of our fighters and promoters to lose focus on what really matters.

We need to assasinate the sanctioning bodies!!!


I also beleive the whole problem lies with the heavyweight division, noone really cares about the smaller divisions, even the middleweights anymore

I guess they look at a heavyweight and see him KO some sucker and think to themselves, "Man this guy can really kill people, he would do the same thing to me!" and when they see some little middleweight or welterweight do the same thing they must think, "Bah impressive, but it's just a little guy, he would never be able to take me like that!" which is of course total crap.

And what about this contender bull! Drop that snot and give us the real deal! It is faker than wrestling!

[Kball15]

"3 fights 160 mil , yeah right"

Tyson didn't get this money. HBO did from Pay per View.

Why is this unbelievable. Millions of people watch this fights, paying 40-50 bucks a pop. AND considering the turn up for tysons fights, 160 million sounds spot one, maybe even a little low.

So shutup unless u no ur right. Its a stat, i didnt make this **** up asswipe.

[grayfist]

There have been countless obits even before fighters wore gloves, and yet, boxing survived/ survives.

It is very difficult to kill boxing: it has even withered bans and declarations of illegality. In part, this is because wherever two fighters, some semblance of officiating and a crowd of fight devotees are gathered, so shall boxing be.

The sport is a product of its own evolution; it has defied malicious mischief of some promoters and even suffocating love of avid fans. It was not invented (as was basketball by Naismith), it simply came to be then subsequently given some amount of regulation over the years(e.g., Queensberry Rules, etc.)

Other sports can exist even grow alongside it, but it will exist and even also grow along with those other sports. UFC cannot supplant boxing. It is definably different: in the fashion that American Football is distinguished from soccer or rugby or Australian Football, and vice versa. Fanasticsm ( fanatic is the rootword for "fan") for boxing does not preclude fanaticism for UFC. The two sports are not mutually exclusive.

Like any other, boxing shall have its downturn; but a dowturn is not always similar to death throes. The movie industry is experiencing a slow-down in the tills the type of which has never been seen before. But is anybody saying movies and similar genre of entertainment are dying? No. What they're saying is that movies and such shall even be bigger when it adopts changes in the way they're made, packaged and distributed (e.g., movies on demand on one's cell phone.)

Boxing can be ill, but, it shall survive. It always has. The way fights are made, and brought to audiences may change, as boxing must adapt to new technology, changing demographics and shfits in population concentration. New rules are certainly going to be formulated as they were in years past-- the progression from bare-fisted to gloved, the unlimited number of rounds to the current 12-round limit and all the other changes-- but few, if any, can diminish the excitement that only boxing can bring to its avid fans.

Consider, too, how it used to be that big-time boxing matches were staged in sports arenas (Polo Field, etc.), but now are more often seen in Casinos. TV helped make the venue change possible because promoters did not have to worry too much about having huge sites to accomodate tens of thousands of fans. Advertising money more than made up for short-falls in gate revenues, at the start, and then, PPV...

Moreover, the ownership changes of Casinos (from gangsters to corporations) helped allay fears that boxing shall sink deeper into the corruption muck.

Boxing, in its essentials, shall always be a part of the world's sports culture. It shall have ebbs and flows, but it shall always be part of the future's entertainment/sports pond.