Boxing

Everyone doesn’t like boxing


Posted on October 23, 2022

By: Sean Crose

I confess that this headline should read: “Even people who really enjoy the sport get knocked down on boxing.” That would probably be more accurate. No problem. For years now, I’ve defended sweet science from people who tell me (always with a smile) that boxing is dead. Indeed, I am forever pointing out to these cheerful apocalypse that they are wrong, because they are right. It’s not that boxing is dead… it’s just that boxing is now, in 2022, heading towards absolute force majeure. Sound good? It cannot. Boxing was arguably the fourth most popular sport in America in the 80s (and possibly a good part of the 90s). Now nobody here in the United States even knows who the top heavyweights are.

That is a sign of serious decline if any. Sure, you could argue that no one knows who the UFC’s world heavyweight champion is, but the UFC has a passionate and satisfied fan base. On the other hand, the current mood of boxing fans is very bad. Don’t believe it? Take a trip to the virtual city called “Twitter boxing” and capture your own mood. Of course battle fans are especially worried at the moment, as the two main – and I mean main – games that could have gone downhill this year have just come through. I’m talking about the heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua, and the undisputed world weight title fight between Errol Spence Jr and Terence Crawford.

Instead of getting into the fights fans have been craving, Fury will battle Derek Chisora, a man he’s already defeated twice, while Crawford faces the widely known David Avanesyan . Who knows what Spence and Joshua will do for the rest of the year? It’s not that Spence and Joshua are necessarily responsible for not signing for potential skirmishes. The truth is that no one knows for sure why these fights don’t happen… or even what’s behind the sport’s rapid decline in general.

One percent of the fan base prefers boxing’s behind-the-scenes drama over the fights that might be associated with it. Of course, it may be a fact that certain boxers refuse to seriously fight for anything less than dream money (which sadly follows the potential nationwide trend of freelancing). Of course, there’s the fact that no one knows even who the top boxers are anymore. Boxers simply don’t fight on basic enough cable to be truly recognized by the public. The news, then, is not what is happening in the boxing world, but what is NOT.

And that’s not a good sign. Luckily, women’s boxing and at least some of boxing’s lightest heavyweights are on fire. The question now is whether the rest of the sport will catch up.

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