Logan Paul is a disgusting human being. Even if he had a single good quality, I would not name it.
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Yeah, at the same time the movers shakers and shotcallers of the boxing world started cannibalizing their own product MMA was becoming more and more popular, gaining alot of traction as a legitimately marketable and watchable form of combat sport. Hopefully im being overly pessimistic, as I absolutely LOVED what boxing used to priduce, but itâs difficult to see it ever getting anywhere near Itâs former glory.
A big fight weekend in Vegas was one of the most electric environments Iâve ever been around. Didnât even have to be one of those âmost of America knows their nameâ matchups, either. From lightweight to junior middleweight up through welterweight my God those divisions were so enormously stacked with talent and amazing fights. Just being in the casino at the MGM Grand on a fight night produced tingles and excitement and action I cant begin to really describe. Opening rounds of March Madness at the casinos before online gambling was legalized were similar - couldnât move around the floor without bumping into someone or jockeying for position.
Iâll miss out on so many names, but watching guys Ike Quartey, Felix Trinidad, Pernell Whiatker, Shane Mosley, the list goes and on and on and on. 2 of my best friends were Golden Gloves state champs, so just about every weekend Saturday nights were booked.
OK, unintended ramble down memory lane over.
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MMA is equally as shameless. They monopolized the fighting market and under pay fighters. Theyâre all awful companies.
Goes without saying, or so I thought.
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I think the popularity of MMA kinda forced boxing to take a different approach.
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Itâs a lot of things. Thereâs hardly ever 1 cause as to why something goes into decline. Match fixing definitely played a major role though. When people watch something they feel they were robbed on, theyâre going to pay less attention to it and look for other forms of entertainment. MMA prob grew because of the decline with boxing.
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Not sure what boxing decline you guys are speaking of as Floyd Mayweather did insane numbers for ever. After he retired? Pacquaio and Canelo continued to do huge numbers while the revival of the heavyweight division with Wilder, Joshua, Fury, Usyk etc rose and is also doing insane numbers that UFC cant touch. UFC specifically became huge because of great marketing and picking up Brock Lesnar which really sky rocketed its popularity.
From the golden era in like the Muhammad Ali days.
Completely different time, PPV is significantly harder to sell now. To say it declined while Mayweather still holds every modern ppv record and boxing continues to sell out stadiums is just off
âBro Tyson is gonna destroy him bro did you see those clips of him train bro?! He punches so hard bro!â
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Yeah Iâm sure it sells. Iâm sure itâll always have audience. It did decline tho.
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Declined into still being the biggest combat sport in the world by a large margin?
People like watching gladiator sports for some reason. Been that way forever and ever. Itâs weird. Iâm watching todayâs AWC, is that kinda gladiator-ish? Yeah kindaâŠ
Itâs not a large margin.
Boxing is becoming a meme.
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It is, UFCs best numbers by far were with mcgregor which still fell short of boxings numbers. He no longer fights and no one on their roster is even close to mcgregors popularity.
Yeah, it was pretty well established. And itâs still a good form of entertainment. Itâs still not a real sport tho. Thereâs way too much match fixing and corruption for it to be taken serious.
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Thereâs just as much bad judging as there is in MMA. Boxings corruption peaked under Don King and has since withered to non existent. Again at the top level you see bad judging favoring fighters from time to time but straight up fixing no. You dont even watch boxing I can tell so no reason to keep going on
No one is holding you hostage here, brother. Itâs a simple discussion.
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Lul last time I checked boxing didnât have to kick a judge out mid card a couple of months ago