Post by Thr33XWA on Jan 8, 2010 3:04:42 GMT -5
As of Wednesday, the superfight between Floyd "Money" Mayweather & Manny Pacquiao is null and void, meaning that the one fight that would have given boxing a long needed shot of relevance in the pro sports universe will presumably never happen. You can't just blame the fighters for mucking this up...their agents and entourages did well too to throw so much red tape onto setting this fight up that after a while people's interest started to die out.
The problem is with this fight between the two best in the sport not happening, and each one now preparing to fight more mediocre competition, people's interest in boxing as a whole is dying out as well. This is just another example of the endless polliticking that has hurt the sport over the last decade, allowing MMA to sneak up and take the reigns as the world's #1 combat sport. This one though might be the knockout blow (pun intended).
You can't put up a single matchup between two fighters now that would garner as much interest, tickets or PPV buys as Mayweather/Pacquiao in any weightclass, and you can't expect for any fight card to garner any interest at all this year from anyone but the most die-hard of boxing fans.
Sadly though, boxing's thrived on being more than a die-hard sport, but a mainstream one. It's got no star power anymore, especially now when it's two biggest stars declined to settle who's truly the best, and in the process have the world watch it happen.
As it stands now, the world cares little for boxing anymore, and the sport has nobody to blame but the people who're in it.
The problem is with this fight between the two best in the sport not happening, and each one now preparing to fight more mediocre competition, people's interest in boxing as a whole is dying out as well. This is just another example of the endless polliticking that has hurt the sport over the last decade, allowing MMA to sneak up and take the reigns as the world's #1 combat sport. This one though might be the knockout blow (pun intended).
You can't put up a single matchup between two fighters now that would garner as much interest, tickets or PPV buys as Mayweather/Pacquiao in any weightclass, and you can't expect for any fight card to garner any interest at all this year from anyone but the most die-hard of boxing fans.
Sadly though, boxing's thrived on being more than a die-hard sport, but a mainstream one. It's got no star power anymore, especially now when it's two biggest stars declined to settle who's truly the best, and in the process have the world watch it happen.
As it stands now, the world cares little for boxing anymore, and the sport has nobody to blame but the people who're in it.
