ThreeStrikesandOut

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Name: An Objective Poster (somehow I doubt that’s your real name)

Comment:

Horrible article. You’re basing your opinion off of one fight and one
fighter yet you neglect the fact that Boxing still produced more Revenue
than any other combat sport in the United States. A dead business does
not produce profits. If you really want to know how Boxing is doing,
why not research what is ACTUALLY happening what fights are ACTUALLY
going to be good instead of just going by what biased media outlets would
like for you to believe. The editor of this article is a joke and
wouldn’t know actual journalism if Walter Conkrite himself explained it to
him.

The article being referred to here is one done here:

And in response I say:

Your sport is dying, you’re biggest star is pimping himself out to Vince McMahon for a payday, the average age of a boxing fan is over 50 (and that’s Cronkite by the way, which produces further evidence to that little finding, plus the fact that obviously you would know spelling if you were bit about the buttocks by a Roseanne Barr sized spelling bee), you cannot find a good boxing match on television that’s widely available to the masses while UFC and other MMA outlets are becoming media darlings, and add to that the fact that your championship unification match got booed out of MSG and I would say that you have a sport that’s seen better days.

That being said.  It’s nice that boxing is making a profit.  And it did have a nice year last year, based mainly on the Mayweather/De La Hoya fight, which made 120 mill in revenue, and on revenues generated outside the U.S.

But none of that makes any kind of difference if boxing doesn’t do the necessary steps to continue it’s momentum.  Sorry, but the average American sports fan cares slightly more about boxing than he does soccer, and it’s mainly because he/she doesn’t know who any of the people are.  The only reason many kids that are into sports know who Mayweather is, is because he’s fighting at Wrestlemania (WWE also produces huge revenue by the way).

Kevin Iole wrote a good article for YahooSports earlier this year about what boxing needs to do to keep positive momentum going throughout this year (and I agree with everything that he said), and so far the biggest thing that’s happened is Mayweather, who manages to keep himself in the news no matter what else is going on, and he’s earned my respect because he’s a risk taker who understands that bitching about no media coverage doesn’t help the sport, but that going out and getting media attention will help it considerably.

That being said, I’m not making these rants a regular item, I only posted the comment because I accidentally deleted it, and I don’t mind posting criticism.  And I don’t consider myself a journalist.  I make no claims to being one.  All of the stories that I comment on have been written and discovered by others, who did all the leg work so that gals and guys like you and I, can put our two cents out there and bitch about what’s good and bad.  I’m just out mainly to amuse, sometimes provoke, and sometimes just to needle people for the hell of it.  I love sports, and I love writing about them, but Jesus, we take them entirely too seriously.  If anyone says that they don’t like someone’s team, favorite player, or sport, you’d think that someone’s mom had just got called a whore.  Lighten up Francis.

And thank you for your support.