hey ya all... have been watching boxing for many years now, I used to be a big fan, just I cannot take the stupid calls by the refs... if they don't change the rules, like lighter gloves= nore KO (like MMA fights) the refs decisions are going to kill boxing... bunch of overveight loosers (calling themselves the refs) that never boxed before obviously making bad calls are driving fans away... I would much rather see a KO a clean win!!! Boxing take a look at the MMA... they are way more fun to watch!!!
Boxing died when it was taken off free tv. It became hard to follow fighters and then once a fighter got halfway big they moved them to pay tv. Even with these Contender fighters, you know if say Mora or Manfredo ever got that championship fight you would have to pay to watch the fight. I aint paying for it so it makes the payoff pointless. It's like having Survivor on CBS until the final episode than offering the finale as pay per-view. Boxing is dead, most normal sports fans do not know the fighters. Even if Ali was fighting in this day in age he would be no where near as popular as he was back then.
9 times as many people paid to see Hopkins/tarver than paid to see Ortiz/Scamcock....MMA will never be a "contender"