As bad as saturday night was it seems to have everyone talking about boxing again. I can't believe how many updates/status's from the casual fan i've seen comment on it.
Sky sports seem to be really pushing the boxing at the moment, the new contract with goldenboy, showing build up to fights. Sky aren't scared to interview allegedly fighters either which is a good thing. Just seen them interview Cleverly and showed footage of him training with a allegedly t-shirt on. They also showed build up to Chisora fight even before the weigh in. They have a quite brilliant weekly boxing magazine show.
Boxing on channel 5 seems to be doing good numbers and now showing other fighters rather than just Tyson Fury, there production and the showing of vt's was very professional on sat just gone and it seems they are in it for the long run rather than just a feeder channel for primetime as first feared.
Of course people are diveded about allegedly but I read in a piece from jeff powell that they had 20k subscribers before the Chisora fight with little promotion. They seemed to push the Chisora fight a lot more and have won some decent fights in the upcoming months.
Kell Brook and Cleverly fights both being very close to sell outs and York hall having plenty of sell outs recently. The emergence of small hall promoters putting on bigger shows and getting tv exposure.
We've got plenty of talent coming through the pro's and we have some real chances of gold at the olympics.
I just think some fools in the media questioning the future of boxing really need to take a long hard look at things as for me it's on the up. What do people think?
Boxing on the rise
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I have lived through a few of the up and down cycles and I think UK boxing has been on the way up for a few years now. It hasn’t been without the odd dip but the trend is up.
I hope Froch is the new yardstick. He’s lost his titles but he’s a proven world class operator who has the respect of most people who work in and follow the sport. He’s proved that being honest and fighting the best is the way to go.
Our Heavyweight scene looks good. Our middleweight scene looks good. We have fights with Khan-Brook-Hatton, Quigg-Frampton, Groves-DeGale II, Cleverly-Bellew II on the horizon…and an Olympic team that looks strong. There is also slack in there so things can improve, e.g. a focused and fit Frankie Gavin is yet to come on line.
I hope Froch is the new yardstick. He’s lost his titles but he’s a proven world class operator who has the respect of most people who work in and follow the sport. He’s proved that being honest and fighting the best is the way to go.
Our Heavyweight scene looks good. Our middleweight scene looks good. We have fights with Khan-Brook-Hatton, Quigg-Frampton, Groves-DeGale II, Cleverly-Bellew II on the horizon…and an Olympic team that looks strong. There is also slack in there so things can improve, e.g. a focused and fit Frankie Gavin is yet to come on line.
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I think boxings on the up ive been wathching boxing religously for 15 years and i think this is one of the best crop of talent weve got a top olympic team, the olympians from 2008 arent doing too bad and great domestics devisions in bantamweight,lightweight, welterweight,lightmiddle,middle,super middle and heavyweight we also got ricky burns and nathan cleverly as world champions last year we had about 11 world championship fights all be we lost most, theres kell brook and kevin mitchell, karl frampton, scott quiqq and any of the three top middleweights we have as future world champions and amir khan and carl froch regaining world honours.
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Boxing us not big enough to be a subscription based sport. It needs a weekly outlet on terrestrial. Fat Mick could be onto a winner.
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Exactlycarlbcfc wrote:Boxing us not big enough to be a subscription based sport. It needs a weekly outlet on terrestrial. Fat Mick could be onto a winner.
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Plus we have a lot of good young talent coming up at the moment we had Kid Galahad breaking out after his win against Jason Booth a former British Champion and World title challenger, you have got James DeGale and George Groves coming along nicely also Scott Quigg and Kris Frampton down at Super-Bantam could face off against each other as well. Plus we have got Martin Murray, Darren Barker and Matt Macklin at MIddleweight who have shown that they can complete at World level so there is plenty of optimism.
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Things have certainly been a lot worse for British boxing than they are now.
Look at the numbers, if nothing else.
2011 was the busiest year in the UK in terms of shows held since 1995.
Many of those shows are pulling good numbers.
The number of active fighters also reached the highest it has been for many years.
Several of those fighters are doing very well at world level.
There is more boxing on television than ever before.
The viewing mass is fragmented, yes, but a lot of eyeballs are are watching boxing on telly.
It's a good sign when a prospect like Kid Galahad can get 1,7 million viewers on Channel 5 close to midnight on a Saturday.
British amateur boxing is probably in better shape than it has ever been, and the number of gyms around the country has seen a strong increase.
More women are getting into boxing too.
Yes, British boxing is doing quite OK in my view.
And I'll tell you what - the claim that boxing is dying is less credible than the doomsday prophets' claim of the earth coming to an end.
At least they give a specific date, or at least year in which to expect this to happen.
The people that claim boxing is dying are never able to that, they just repeat the old phrase over and over - like they have done since Jack Broughton was upset by Jack Slack - in 1750!
Nuff said!
Look at the numbers, if nothing else.
2011 was the busiest year in the UK in terms of shows held since 1995.
Many of those shows are pulling good numbers.
The number of active fighters also reached the highest it has been for many years.
Several of those fighters are doing very well at world level.
There is more boxing on television than ever before.
The viewing mass is fragmented, yes, but a lot of eyeballs are are watching boxing on telly.
It's a good sign when a prospect like Kid Galahad can get 1,7 million viewers on Channel 5 close to midnight on a Saturday.
British amateur boxing is probably in better shape than it has ever been, and the number of gyms around the country has seen a strong increase.
More women are getting into boxing too.
Yes, British boxing is doing quite OK in my view.
And I'll tell you what - the claim that boxing is dying is less credible than the doomsday prophets' claim of the earth coming to an end.
At least they give a specific date, or at least year in which to expect this to happen.
The people that claim boxing is dying are never able to that, they just repeat the old phrase over and over - like they have done since Jack Broughton was upset by Jack Slack - in 1750!
Nuff said!
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I'm genuinely surprised by this statement, are there stats to support this belief (not a loaded question by the way, but I genuinely thought that participation levels in am boxing were miles below previous eras).-KOKid- wrote:British amateur boxing is probably in better shape than it has ever been, and the number of gyms around the country has seen a strong increase
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I'm not sure about the actual number of competing amateur boxers, but Britain is certainly doing very well on the world stage in terms of medals won in international tournaments.
GQ Magazine did an article on British amateur boxing in 2010.
Here are some interesting quotes:
"Boxing Monthly reports that, in the past four years, membership of local boxing clubs has risen by more than 170 per cent, from 7,000 to 19,000 members. And over the past year alone, boxing has been introduced to 200 schools. In 2005, there were only 20 schools in the country that taught boxing. Now there are just under 2,000.
It's yesterday once more. For there was once a time, just before and after the war, when putting on a pair of boxing gloves came as naturally to schoolchildren as putting on a pair of football boots. Although the marquee names of boxing might not be shining as they did a few years ago - David Haye and Amir Khan not yet filling the boots of Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe - at the grass-roots level, boxing is thriving.
"The demand for boxing at the moment is incredible," says Ron Boddy of the Amateur Boxing Association of England. "Every school that goes into boxing, it just spreads and spreads. It is the biggest time in amateur boxing since just after WWII, which was its major boom. It's just getting bigger and bigger."
Here is a link to the article - http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/ar ... ng-schools
GQ Magazine did an article on British amateur boxing in 2010.
Here are some interesting quotes:
"Boxing Monthly reports that, in the past four years, membership of local boxing clubs has risen by more than 170 per cent, from 7,000 to 19,000 members. And over the past year alone, boxing has been introduced to 200 schools. In 2005, there were only 20 schools in the country that taught boxing. Now there are just under 2,000.
It's yesterday once more. For there was once a time, just before and after the war, when putting on a pair of boxing gloves came as naturally to schoolchildren as putting on a pair of football boots. Although the marquee names of boxing might not be shining as they did a few years ago - David Haye and Amir Khan not yet filling the boots of Ricky Hatton and Joe Calzaghe - at the grass-roots level, boxing is thriving.
"The demand for boxing at the moment is incredible," says Ron Boddy of the Amateur Boxing Association of England. "Every school that goes into boxing, it just spreads and spreads. It is the biggest time in amateur boxing since just after WWII, which was its major boom. It's just getting bigger and bigger."
Here is a link to the article - http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/comment/ar ... ng-schools
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No point having prospects nobody has heard of. For his Gold medal, most of my mates would not have a clue how to find out what channel James DeGale fights on. (I know, neither do we at the moment)
I know they are interested in watching boxing, but it is just so feckin hard to follow it becomes pointless. It seems we have the die hards, the people who have a connection ie mates, mates of mates, same footy club etc......... and the Welsh, who shout about anything that comes out of Wales other than wool and water.
I know they are interested in watching boxing, but it is just so feckin hard to follow it becomes pointless. It seems we have the die hards, the people who have a connection ie mates, mates of mates, same footy club etc......... and the Welsh, who shout about anything that comes out of Wales other than wool and water.