Will you miss the significance of watching title fights to determine who the heavyweight champion of the world will be? Please explain why you think this has happened, and if you think boxing will ever return. Thanks to all who answer.|||Has boxing really lost its audience, or has MMA simply found a whole new audience?
I don't know anyone who gave up being a fan of boxing to watch the UFC. I know people who never cared for boxing who love MMA though. Embarrassingly, I think a lot of MMA fans come from the fans of pro wrestling, rather than of pro boxing.|||Boxing is still pretty popular from what I can see. UFC is just a fad right now. Boxing will have an even stronger come back though. Just wait and see. Patience is a virtue.|||I Personally feel people like MMA because it incorporates all aspects of fighting where as boxing is just stand up and even it's stand up is not as intense as MMA because it doesn't incorporate every limb. I don't think either sport will ever fully take over but if it were too happen boxers will probabbly become Mixed martial artists - many boxers already do. So to answer your question i believe boxing has taken backseat because MMA is more of a thrill to watch i think that MMA is just growing in popularity but i wouldn't expect it to go away any time soon, ever since ufc/mma has become popular it's done nothing but rise in popularity it will have it's ups and downs but mma will most likely be on top. Boxing had a good run but now theres just something more interesting. It's all fighting but it's kind of like comparing floor hockey to ice hockey. Same sport but ice hockey is just more fun to watch.|||Boxing is taking a backseat right now due to the lack of marquee bouts
there hasnt been a high-profile fight where the fighter(s) is known around the world since probly tyson lets face it they dont have any superfights coming up either since pacquiao and mayweather isnt gonna happen|||Boxing isn't taking a back seat. The fact is that both sports can coexist. I'm a MMA fan and practitioner. I'm also a huge fan of boxing, grew up on it. The difference is that boxing has gotten a reputation for corruption and fixing fights. Boxing also doesn't carry as many big names as they used to. It happens from time to time. Right now, there is only one fight in boxing people want to see...Mayweather vs. Pacman. Also, there are too many weightclasses and belts in boxing. People don't know who or what to follow. While MMA has different organizations, there is only one belt per class in each org. making it easier to follow. Another reason is MMA PPV events will give you 5-8 fights for your money, whereas boxing gives only 2 or 3. People want more bang for their buck. I wouldn't call MMA a fad, as it has existed for 17 years. It's been hugely popular for 5 years. Fads only last a year tops. This is more than a fad, it's a sport. It doesn't seem to be declining in popularity any time soon. MMA puts on exciting fights and try to give the fans what they want to see. So I guess you could say, MMA is more about the fans than boxing.|||They don't have the quality of contenders they once did. Most of the really good ones are retired or way past their prime. People got tired of rigged fights too. The homosexual community probably gets the support of the UFC for obvious reasons. I think boxing will return but it will never be the same due to its competition. Alot of people like to watching a wet blanket contest. Boxing will also need a new PR campaign and some exciting heavyweights like past boxer foreman, tyson, holyfield, etc.|||Boxing has had a lot of scandals in it in the last 15 to 20 years , so you can't tell who is legitimate and who is the real deal. Until Boxing cleans itself up (which I do not know that it can do) it is going to be a second class sport.|||Boxing is losing steam right now because there aren't enough talented fighters to keep it interesting. Short of Mayweather - Paquiao. there aren't a lot of fights that would be really popular.
Also, the way boxing is run, it's rare to see two really big, top notch fighters go at it for fear of losing a fight. And it's so convoluted with so many weight classes and organizations giving belts at the like. There are no undisputed champions.
If boxing streamlined it's belts and there was more talent out there, it would gain popularity again.|||Because boxing isn't nearly as complex or as dangerous as something like MMA.
In my opinion all of the rules and the lack of variation as opposed to mixed martial arts makes it less interesting. Sure, I could watch a guy punch another guy in the face and then punch him in the gut, or I could change the channel to UFC and see someone jump kick another guy in the chin.|||because boxing has become boring. Guys build up a record fighting tomato cans and then they fight a real guy on PPV after they get ranked.
You watch boxing on TV, and only the 4 round fights between
nobodies are any good.
You watch main event guys and they dance for 12 rounds.
You can diss the quality of MMA fighters compared with boxing, but at least MMA guys come to fight!
If I want to watch dancing,
I'll watch dancing. MMA has become hot because boxing is boring and pro wrestling is starved for ideas (let's see, wrestler A hits up on wrestler B's galpal, so the jealous wrestler B hits wrestler A with a chair, oh no we did that already!) And how many more
times does the Undertaker have to be world champion before he retires?
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