Is BOXING DEAD???

[Coolhand68]

Mayweather/Marquez did at least twice as many PPV sales as UFC 103 this past weekend. Boxing is nowhere near dead.

[USNRET04]

Originally Posted by DITC

You people are clueless fools. Boxing is still alive. Maybe not to the impatient, fairweather fan masses, but it is still alive to those who watch it regularly. There is a lot of action at welterweight and weight classes below

Most of the fairweather fans (those who bring the surge of money to a major fight) are not interested anymore. Pretty much after the "Tyson" age was over, there hasn't been anyone like him to inspire the fairweather fans again.

As for the welterweight fights, there are some great fighters out there, but like it was said earlier, they don't get enough press. The diehard fans are there, but that's not enough.

It's the "chicken and the egg" scenerio.

[JackTheRipper]

Originally Posted by USNRET04

Most of the fairweather fans (those who bring the surge of money to a major fight) are not interested anymore. Pretty much after the "Tyson" age was over, there hasn't been anyone like him to inspire the fairweather fans again.

As for the welterweight fights, there are some great fighters out there, but like it was said earlier, they don't get enough press. The diehard fans are there, but that's not enough.

It's the "chicken and the egg" scenerio.

co-sign.

post Tyson...boxing has declined, but it's still holding on.

[cool rob]

I think if the Heavy Weight Division was revamped, and held the same spark that it used too, a good number of those fairwhether fans would return.

HW just needs one dynamite American HW to clean house, and it would have that level of competition again