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re: Older guys and boxing fans
Posted on 2/3/15 at 5:26 pm to Marciano1
Posted on 2/3/15 at 5:26 pm to Marciano1
quote:yep
Y.A. Tittle
The days of the average Joe getting up for 'big fights' has long since sailed.
quote:This would be good. I was a HUGE boxing fan back in the day, but I can't tell you the last time I've seen a marquee fighter on TV. I'm just not going to drop 50 bucks (or whatever it costs now) on guys I've never seen, for a fight that might last less than 3 minutes potentially. Just won't.
Al Haymon is working on bringing boxing back to network and cable. He already struck a deal with NBC. Plus he has CBS, Spike TV and other rumored channels. Supposedly he wants to drive premium channels and PPV out of the sport
Whatever the plan is, we need fights on TV. Not drama, not hype, but fights. You need to see the actual boxers a few times, and then their own skill becomes the hype: I couldn't have cared less what Leonard or Hearns said about each other (for example), but I wanted to see Sugar Ray against the Hitman. Because I already knew, from watching, that those were two bad men in the ring.
Or Tyson- we saw him on ESPN and/or the networks a number of times coming up, and that's when he became known as such a beast. It was okay to go PPV for some title fights once he was already established, but we got to see him first.
As to the OP- Mayweather vs Pacchio would be the biggest fight since De La Hoya vs Trinidad, but not bigger. And it wouldn't make top ten in anything other than money; plenty of lesser grossing fights would be more remembered.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 5:36 pm to Scoob
Shame the sport has been overrun by MMA & UFC - just glad I was around for the good years & glad to be able to still offer a comment
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