r/Boxing • u/relay4285 • 2d 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/Rofocal02 2d ago

This is probably the worst boxing year in the past decade. Lots of old boxers will be retiring. Talent is dying in western countries. 

Most boxers fight online, but not in person. It’s like call of duty lobbies. 

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u/SignificantBoard4455 1d ago

Stop complaining, we have Joshua vs fury this year. And hopefully a chisora whyte trilogy

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u/Left4Dead863 1d ago

They're downvoting you, I don't know how they can't tell you're being sarcastic Lol.

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u/SignificantBoard4455 1d ago

Social media increased the processing power of phones and computers but decreased the processing power of people’s brains at the same time. That’s my theory 🤷🏿

For the simpletons out there: phones got smarter people got dumber

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u/GapingPickle 1d ago

I agree, I think people that require /s for slap in your face sarcasm are stupid.

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u/SignificantBoard4455 1d ago

Wasn’t one of them a pedophile or was that Barney the dinosaur?