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<\/p>\nBy: Sean Crose<\/p>\n
Tank Davis ruffled a few feathers on Friday when he posted that \u201cBOXING IS DEAD\u201d (caps his own). When one of the stars of the sport says something along those lines, people listen. Now, whether Davis truly feels that way, or if he was merely letting off some steam on social media remains to be seen. The truth, however, is that boxing isn\u2019t dead \u2013 but man it needs a lot of work. First the good news, boxing on Netflix brings in the numbers, provided the matches are good. While Terence Crawford\u2019s brilliant win over Canelo Alvarez or Katie Taylor\u2019s third go round with arch rival Amanda Serrano may not have done Mayweather-Pacquiao numbers, they brought in millions of eyeballs. That\u2019s not a bad thing even if you want it to be (yeah, some fight fans love bad news).<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a flip side to the coin, however, an unsettling one. First and foremost, boxing has been cast away from mainstream traditional broadcasting. ABC, NBS, CBS, ESPN\u2026.all gone. That means every major fight \u2013 and even many less than major fights \u2013 cost the viewer. Netflix costs\u2026and so does pay per view (obviously). Unless it\u2019s a smaller card on, say, YouTube, you\u2019re paying. That\u2019s bad. Very, very bad. On top of that, Top Rank Promotions, a venerable pillar of the sport, has not gotten a new broadcast deal. And PBC? It\u2019s still around sure, but is it the force it was was a decade or less ago?<\/p>\n
And then of course there\u2019s the Juggernaut known as Jake Paul. Out of everyone in boxing, he may be the most successful player both in the ring and outside of it. Infuriating? Yes. Unfair? Absolutely. Yet it\u2019s true. Paul isn\u2019t a bad fighter and he\u2019s an absolutely terrific promoter, but no one really wants to see him fight Larry Holmes at this point in time. Money however talks. That\u2019s something Davis knows better than anyone. For a man who complains about boxing, he certainly isn\u2019t keeping it pure. Again though, who can blame him?<\/p>\n
So what could be done right now about the sweet science.? I would argue that the best thing to do is to just keep putting the big fights out there\u2026with no outrageous fees. Easier said than done, I know, but the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia as well as Netflix have shown that the goal could be reached, at least sometimes. So long as people have the money to back up these low to no cost endeavors, the sport just may have a chance.<\/p>\n
Getting some legitimate young stars wouldn\u2019t hurt either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By: Sean Crose Tank Davis ruffled a few feathers on Friday when he posted that \u201cBOXING IS DEAD\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-174303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}