Boxing Needs Manny Pacquiao to Revive Declining Public Interest in the Sport
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There may come a time when promoters like Bob Arum and Oscar de la Hoya will one day refuse to promote a boxing fight if the public will not buy pay-per-view subscriptions or tickets for a boxing show.
This grim scenario will become a reality sooner than everyone can think about. And when that happens, boxing will die with it, resulting in massive unemployment to people who are dependent on the sport for their livelihood.
Paying fans, especially those who buy pay-per-view tickets for private viewing, are now pushing the alarm button, telling boxers and promoters they may no longer buy tickets if they are given inferior, botched and boring fights.
An indication the fans are feed up is the feedback media is getting from the audience during the Nonito Donaire vs Omar Narvaez fight at the Madison Square Garden. A lot of bull sh…ts and more harsher words for fighters and promoters have been heard from the live audience and we all know Bob Arum and the fighters heard them loud and clear.
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This was extremely well written. In fact, I bet outside of this article and my comment, the level of grammar and spelling will slowly decrease.
Still, this was a great article . . .and post.
I bought the chad Dawson/ Bernard hopkins fight a week or so ago and i have NEVER felt to ripped off in my life. i will never buy another Boxing pay perview as long as i live and i don’t care if its Pacquio/ Mayweather. boxing is DONE and is a total rippoff
No its just this GET RID OF FITCH kid’s just dumb in general.
24 hours later . . .. I couldn’t have been more right.
Who writes these articles? I have never seen so many typographical errors and misspelled words on a so called “illegitimate” site in my life. Learn to spell or die in a fire!!
Says the guy who wrote “illegitimate” and meant legitimate….there’s irony.
its not his job to write articles
Who wrote this sloppy article? Was it written with your feet?
Every time Manny Pacquiao fights, it never declines public interest in the sport for most boxing fans. In fact, most Filipinos stay tuned on his fight, crime rate decreases, and you can’t almost see cars on the streets & highways few hours & during his fight. Hope he wins this, all of his fights are very exciting & his punches are lightning speed.
Boxing should put fights for free on TV to catch public interest.
They do a bunch of free boxing matches on television. Hopkins vs Dawson should have been a free to watch match on HBO. I sure am glad I didn’t pay for it. Chad Dawson and Mayweather hurt the legacy of boxing for the old aging fans and the for the sparse new ones. You can’t play with people’s money like that. When Pac beats Mayweather next year its a wrap for boxing.
mayweather pacquiao is the only fight anyone is really interested in. once that fight is over so is boxing.
+1
Pac Man and Money will be one of the biggest fights in Boxing history for sure, but after that.. boxing is looking to be getting left behind by other sports, MMA is the new boxing and theres not much anyone can do about it honestly.
But yeah i cant wait for Manny to show Mayweather who the the best at this time really is
pacquiao is boxing,boxing is pacquiao!
boxing needs to put more fights on one card , its sad when boxing fans only buy pay-per-views for the main event.. Boxing needs to take a page out of the UFC book and put 2 title fights on one card , better undercards…. i’m not gonna pay for a 12 round hug fest like mayweather and de la hoya….
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