Is boxing dying?

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"You don't play boxing" -- James Toney

Aug. 9, 2009
Reforming the business of boxing [Ted Sares]
Hatton: 'Boxing is dying' [Manchester Evening News]
Boxing can copy MMA's formula [Ed Graney]
Boxing vs. MMA: Who wins? [St. Louis Suburban Journals]
Money battle threatens debut of 'next Ricky Hatton' [The Independent]
Top Rank over Golden Boy in the early rounds [Doghouse Boxing]
IBF open to instant replay for boxing [CBC Sports]
One worldwide governing body: Could it happen? [East Side Boxing]

[dajuggernaut]

People need to stop asking this question.

[I Feel Fine]

Mark Twain said that if you get a reputation as an early riser you can sleep until noon. Boxing has gotten this reputation in recent years of being a "dying sport" so that people are unable to stop calling it such, contrary to any evidence. Look at the lineup of huge fights on the horizon in the coming months... boxing is going to make millions of dollars in a three month span beyond anyone's wildest dreams... but there will always be some idiot critic saying "boxing is dying."
How many big PPV numbers does Pacquiao have to get before we take the sport off life support?

[Goodnight, Irene]

For those who repeatedly claim it is dying, please specify when you think there will be no more Boxing on Planet Earth.

The sport is generating trillions of dollars for all interested parties. Where there's money, there's life. Get real.

[DoubleMM]

YES!! boxing is dying because of money, fighters fight only once or twice a year and for the best amount of money they can recieve. also, PPV doesn't help and over excitable commentators that make it seem like wwe wrestling

[I Feel Fine]

Nonsense. PPV certainly doesn't help boxing, but its hardly killing the sport; Pacquiao and Cotto, De La Hoya and Mayweather can testify to that.
Commentators? Who gives a fornicate about commentators?

[DoubleMM]

Nonsense. PPV certainly doesn't help boxing, but its hardly killing the sport; Pacquiao and Cotto, De La Hoya and Mayweather can testify to that.
Commentators? Who gives a eff about commentators?

Commentators make the sport look like Wrestling.

[elmersalsa]

BOXING LIKE HIP HOP....IS DEAD!!!

Maybe Manny Pacq2uiao could save boxing....Well, he already save boxing in the Far East.

[I Feel Fine]

Idiot boxing fans make the sport look like wrestling. Real boxing fans hardly pay attention to the commentators while watching a fight.

[raylawpc]

Idiot boxing fans make the sport look like wrestling. Real boxing fans hardly pay attention to the commentators while watching a fight.

The "mute" button is a fabulous tool. Before that, turning the volume nob down to its lowest setting was my favorite way of listening to the commentary of a Mr. Howard Cosell.

[DoubleMM]

Now comeon, you cannot mute Howard.

[Collins2000]

YES!! boxing is dying because of money, fighters fight only once or twice a year and for the best amount of money they can recieve. also, PPV doesn't help and over excitable commentators that make it seem like wwe wrestling

Which boxers have made a career of only fighting once a year?

It would take them ten years to have 10 fights by my reckoning.

[I Feel Fine]

Idiot boxing fans make the sport look like wrestling. Real boxing fans hardly pay attention to the commentators while watching a fight.

The "mute" button is a fabulous tool. Before that, turning the volume nob down to its lowest setting was my favorite way of listening to the commentary of a Mr. Howard Cosell.

Yeah, Cosell was useless. He had the opportunity to see some of the all time greats up close from Robinson to Holmes and he still did not understand what the sport was about.

[boxing_fanatic_87]

Ask again in 20 years, when there's a whole new crop of fighters and all new matches being made if boxing is dying. BOXING IS NEVER DYING

[jaclem2]

..if boxing was a catholic individual it would be receiving the last rites...

[Goodnight, Irene]

If Boxing were a Catholic individual, I wouldn't be hanging out with it, thinking it's cool.

[Chuck1052]

While it does appear that boxing will continue to be around for quite awhile, it is my opinion that the sport began going downhill rapidly in a number of ways starting about 1950.

- Chuck Johnston