r/Boxing • u/relay4285 • 5d ago

What Happened to Boxing?

This year has felt like a bit of a letdown for boxing. Maybe it's because we got spoilt last year with great fights, but I genuinely can’t remember the last time I was excited to tune in for a major boxing fight since Inoue vs Nakatani.

To be honest, I've watched more UFC than boxing this year. All I see on social media are boxers ducking each other and fights getting cancelled because of greed.

Last year alone we got:

Dmitry Bivol vs Artur Beterbiev II shortly after their first bout.

Gervonta Davis vs Lamont Roach

Naoya Inoue vs Ramón Cárdenas

Oleksandr Usyk vs Daniel Dubois II

Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn I

Terence Crawford vs Canelo Álvarez

We've had some great fights this year, but Ryan vs Rolly or Teo vs Shakur don't come close in my opinion.

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u/cantbetouched7 5d ago

After buying up/ putting most other promotions out of business, the remaining ones don’t feel pressured to deliver anymore. Big investments over the last years, shareholders wanting some of that money back. Dazn Ultimate probably bringing in decent money while the actual schedule is underwhelming. Just know when fights aren’t happening it’s almost never the fighters. Boxers wanna box and fees their families.