Fight of the century: mayweather vs pacquiao thread

[ballinouttacntrol]

Did you not read the original post?

I know I know, let's go visit a forum where people are over passionate about a sport, theyll have some unbiased facts 😂

Atleast you recognize that baseball is becoming a niche sport too.

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[SumoNinja]

Did you not read the original post?


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I did

you said to take it in any direction we please. and I didn't do that, I just followed suit to the direction you guys already took it


edit: oh about the "no sumoninjas"

lol, "sumoninjas," implying as if there are multiple ones. i'm one of a kind bruh. so "sumoninjas" don't apply to me

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

I did

you said to take it in any direction we please. and I didn't do that, I just followed suit to the direction you guys already took it


edit: oh about the "no sumoninjas"

lol, "sumoninjas," implying as if there is multiple ones. i'm one of a kind bruh. so "sumoninjas" don't apply to me

Lol, knew you get a chuckle. Have fun. I got better things to do then argue the study decline of boxing's popularity


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[SumoNinja]

I am curious though

for you and others who believe that, do you guys have a time frame or some general prediction?

I could've sworn in the boxing thread we had this discussion like 5 years ago or something, lol. when will it die? serious question. i'm curious as to when you guys think it will be dead


seriously, give me some general time frame or even a distant year. that way when that guestimated time passes and boxers are still making millions I can bump this thread and lol @ you guys while I watch you help yourselves to a nice serving of crow

 

[Aquanero]

I don't think I ever mentioned this on here before. My father fought for a while before the war as a middleweight, I fought in the army as a lightweight and grew up around boxing gyms. I don't care what arm chair QB's on a boxing forum that never laced a pair of gloves has to say about the sport. I don't follow it like I used too and Boxing isn't going to disappear but it is convoluted and nowhere near as popular as it was, for the reasons I stated. I honestly don't know who the current heavyweight champion of the world is today. One of the Klitschkos maybe? Too many organizations too many "champions". Remember when Roberto Duran was THE Lightweight champion or Sugar Ray was THE Welterweight champion or Larry Holmes was THE Heavyweight champion? The average guy on the street knew who these people were it's not like that today.

Boxing isn't going away it's just a little comatose at the moment it will straighten itself out and come back. Peaks and valleys.

 

[SumoNinja]

and I completely understand that. that is one of the more intelligent comments. sadly it's not the norm.

sure boxing fell into a little slump. but in recent years, records have been broken. gates, ppv buys,..... and in the grand big picture, this little slump (even if it may be a decade or so) seems only like a step in boxing's life

when mma blew up and made huge huge waves back in 2009, the boxing is dead talk was at it's highest. even today, mma fans who admit not to following boxing (which always blew my mind) will make these bold statements about the state of boxing and pass them on as facts. I'm a huge mma fan and it annoys me when I hear those things

well, here it is just a few years later and mma is really really struggling right now

 

[Aquanero]

The trouble with mma IMO is came off too much like professional wrestling, too much hype and flash sort of a boxing wrestling hybrid that didn't fit either and a new champ was crowned every week.

 

[seanxwarp]

Getting back to the actual subject on this thread, I think mayweather paid the judges for him to win by decision........................... if he survives that long. Let the criticism of my conspiracy theory begin

 

[ballinouttacntrol]

The

Getting back to the actual subject on this thread, I think mayweather paid the judges for him to win by decision........................... if he survives that long. Let the criticism of my conspiracy theory begin

The sad thing is this doesn't even seem like a far fetched theory.

I tried pointing out to sumo that "doing well in business with a few fights" is not the same as being widely popular among the masses. I really feel like he's so submerged in the fight culture that he just doesn't see it.

Imo boxing superfights use to be like the Super Bowls. Everyone anticipated the outcome and watched the fights and talked about it. A large portion of the population, not just boxing/fight elitists. Much like how random people tune in for the Super Bowl without paying close attention throughout the year. Same for World Cup or the Olympics. I don't equate business peeking for a few fights the same as restoring past glory. When I say boxing is dead, I literally mean it's fallen into a niche sport (tennis, soccer, hockey) instead of being in the same caliber as football and basketball and soccer oversea.

If we all can agree that boxing isn't wildly popular like it use to be we can put this subject to bed. It's just a vicious circle of neither side giving in.





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[Dieselhybrid]

and I completely understand that. that is one of the more intelligent comments. sadly it's not the norm.

sure boxing fell into a little slump. but in recent years, records have been broken. gates, ppv buys,..... and in the grand big picture, this little slump (even if it may be a decade or so) seems only like a step in boxing's life

when mma blew up and made huge huge waves back in 2009, the boxing is dead talk was at it's highest. even today, mma fans who admit not to following boxing (which always blew my mind) will make these bold statements about the state of boxing and pass them on as facts. I'm a huge mma fan and it annoys me when I hear those things

well, here it is just a few years later and mma is really really struggling right now

Is MMA struggling? I was just in Vegas and judging by what people are paying for those tickets I would never have guessed.