This is known from the ratings and the amount of ppv fought a boutgh. A new record was broken just last September as the highest all time ppv buys ever.
I enjoy ufx but the pay for those athletes stink. I hope they unio NJ ize or a new person is put in charge. I know champs in boxing that aren't ppv material making more money than some if the ufc guys.
Most of the younger fighters are going into UFC/MMA. It offers more money than regular boxing. But I think slowly boxing is coming back.
It's still popular in Mexico and Europe. But MMA is very popular in brazil, too. it's been going down hill since the introduction of MMA in the mid 1990s.
people have to write there cable or satellite provider to let them know about their love of boxing then more fights will be scheduled.
It's in a drought here in the USA at least. But dying? Nope, never. People seem to forget that more than just the USA watches boxing. Boxing is still popular all over the world! The countries that have a lot of current world champions are the ones that tune in the most.
The thing is that now we have to pay $60 to watch a ppv event, which doesn't compare to $0 to listen to it on the radio. You also have to take into consideration that we aren't in the best economic state,so not many people have the money to pay to go watch a boxing match live. Blame pay per view for the lower amount of views. People prefer to watch in a big group.
Boxing has always had ebbs and flows. It was once illegal.
It only takes one big star to make it popular again.
It is not dead, but may be in a down period now.
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Boxing is dying slowly slowly since UFC came into business and also because of lot of controversies in big boxing matches.Also because of pending Mayweather-Pacquiao fight...
well, one boxer is currently the highest payed athlete and it might be slow in the u.s. at certain times but it still is a mainstream sport in other countries..... but its often a race war which i think is often annoying at times
Real Steel predicted it.
Big fights back in the day drew in huge crowds.
Louis-Schmeling had an estimated 200 million people listen to it by radio around the world, and 80,000 people went to watch the fight live [that's as many people as in this years Super Bowl].
Dempsey-Tunney 2 brought in a crowd of 120,000 people, no sporting even today compares to these numbers.
Several Muhammad Ali fights also filled stadiums.
Streets were empty when these superstars fought. Most tuned-in via radio.
The biggest fights today are mostly in the MGM which only has a capacity of 16,800 people & when it's full it's a big deal. Ticket prices today are expensive but when you take into consideration inflation it's about the same. People would save up weeks worth of checks to watch a 2 round Joe Louis bout! When Pacquiao was the hottest fighter in the world back in 2010 [the year he sold more than Mayweather] they tried a fight in a stadium and he could only sell for 40,000 people [they practically gave tickets away].
PPV numbers have peaked this last decade but cable subscribers have grown almost exponentially the last 30 years. This means that back in the day, fewer people had cable so fewer people could purchase PPV.
I remember my childhood, we saw Tyson fights in 1 of my aunts houses, she had cable so everyone got together for the event.
We have not done this the last 15 years!
Today more people have cable so more can pay PPV but does this mean more are watching or following the sport?
