tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29090025.post7065504756437477557..comments2024-01-31T08:53:14.005-07:00Comments on Taylor's Twins Talk: Emeritus Champion No MoreJSThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12207754797909843134noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29090025.post-18331849422366762372008-10-13T10:33:00.000-06:002008-10-13T10:33:00.000-06:00Some good sites for newswww.fightnews.comwww.maxbo...Some good sites for news<BR/><BR/>www.fightnews.com<BR/>www.maxboxing.com<BR/><BR/>For Minnesota check<BR/>www.minnesotaboxing.com<BR/><BR/>The quality of cards need to improved. I'm also a MMA fan and they tend to have several good fights on each card while boxing usually has a bunch of mismatches excluding the co-main events. On a local level it's often worse with even the main events being mismatches. <BR/><BR/>That being said, for anyone interested check out the Litsau's @ The Armory on Oct. 24Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29090025.post-66807263046299795382008-10-12T21:34:00.000-06:002008-10-12T21:34:00.000-06:00Nowhere outside the mainstream -- I check out ESPN...Nowhere outside the mainstream -- I check out ESPN's Boxing page a couple times a week and read a lot of the articles there. I occasionally see what's on other sports sites like CNNSI. Once every couple of weeks I go to the major sanctioning body's websites to see how the rankings stack up. And then, whenever I get the chance, I watch the fights.JSThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12207754797909843134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29090025.post-36762650042752427122008-10-12T20:21:00.000-06:002008-10-12T20:21:00.000-06:00One of the best posts I've seen about boxing. Wher...One of the best posts I've seen about boxing. Where do you go to get your information? You seem to be very knowledgeable.<BR/><BR/>PeteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29090025.post-17096079542458022392008-10-11T23:50:00.000-06:002008-10-11T23:50:00.000-06:00Cool post... in the past year or two I've really g...Cool post... in the past year or two I've really gotten into boxing and the sport's troubles in the US are unfortunate (in Europe, boxing is more popular than ever, and it's at least steady in Asia and Latin America). Boxing has everything you can want in a sport- speed, power, strategy, etc.- but also requires a unique degree of mental and physical toughness. <BR/><BR/>I feel like there are two big, overarching problems. First, fighters (or, more likely, their promoters) are too fearful of losing a fight. Too many fighters are protected from top competition in the hopes of landing only favorable match ups. The result is too many one-sided fights. Sports fans want competitive contests and too often that is the exception rather than the rule in boxing. <BR/><BR/>The second problem- boxing's lack of wide TV exposure in the US- is where boxing's lack of central authority is so damaging. There is a collective action problem at work: each individual promoter benefits from PPV (or HBO/Showtime non-PPV fees), but in doing so they hurt everyone else that wants the sport to succeed (including themselves, in the long run).<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure what the solution is. People inside the sport talk a good game but don't deliver... Bob Arum has mentioned putting Kelly Pavlik on free TV, but his next fight is against a slow, boring, defense-oriented 43 year old on PPV. And that's not the sanctioning bodies at work- there aren't even any titles at stake.JWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05530976124095073877noreply@blogger.com