The Lonious Monk
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This debate is pointless really. You guys are going to believe what you want to believe. I find it hard to believe any of you are real longtime boxing fans saying what you're saying though. I been watching it ever since I was little, and I remember being able to turn on the tv on any given day and find a boxing match. You could basically watch the sport as easy as if it was baseball. Are ya'll really going to act like it's still that accessible? And again, saying that fighters are making more money so boxing must be bigger than ever is a dumbass argument. Like you guys are saying, Floyd is making more than any fighter ever off these fights, so you really saying that because of that boxing is bigger now than it was back in the day when it was one of the premier sports? You cats must have forgot that there was a time when boxing was as big in the country as baseball, basketball, or football. You must have forgot that Ali wasn't just the loudmouth douchebag that popped up every once in a while to fight like Floyd. Ali was literally the biggest name in sports. That's how big boxing was. Again, Ali wasn't making the money off of his fights that Floyd is, but let you guys tell it, Floyd is a bigger name than Ali ever was.
As I pointed out before, there are still tons of boxing fans, if the sport as a whole has shrunken, then that means that the few cards are going to make more money. Think of it like this. You have a city that only has a Wendy's. You have a similar sized city that has a Jack in the Box, McDonalds, and Burger King. The Wendy's might make more money than any of those other chains in the city. Does that mean people like Wendy's better? No it means Wendy's is in a position to soak up more money from the market because it has no competition. It's the same with Floyd and Paq and a couple others. The pool for fighters that people want to see is so small nowadays that every time they fight people are jumping on board because they don't have any alternative. People may hate Floyd, but they will watch his fights because as boxing fans they aren't going to find any other event on that level for months. Now go back a decade or two where you had like 3 or 4 big named boxers in multiple divisions. If you primarily watched Heavyweights, you'd never watch someone like Floyd back then because you could stick to the Heavyweight division and see good fights. Now they upper levels of the Heavyweight division suck for the most part, so it's difficult for anyone to feed their boxing fix on that division alone.
As I pointed out before, there are still tons of boxing fans, if the sport as a whole has shrunken, then that means that the few cards are going to make more money. Think of it like this. You have a city that only has a Wendy's. You have a similar sized city that has a Jack in the Box, McDonalds, and Burger King. The Wendy's might make more money than any of those other chains in the city. Does that mean people like Wendy's better? No it means Wendy's is in a position to soak up more money from the market because it has no competition. It's the same with Floyd and Paq and a couple others. The pool for fighters that people want to see is so small nowadays that every time they fight people are jumping on board because they don't have any alternative. People may hate Floyd, but they will watch his fights because as boxing fans they aren't going to find any other event on that level for months. Now go back a decade or two where you had like 3 or 4 big named boxers in multiple divisions. If you primarily watched Heavyweights, you'd never watch someone like Floyd back then because you could stick to the Heavyweight division and see good fights. Now they upper levels of the Heavyweight division suck for the most part, so it's difficult for anyone to feed their boxing fix on that division alone.
