Seems to have all but disappeared from the mainstream tv channels (with pay-per-view excepted). I remember many great boxers over the years, the likes of John Conteh, Herol "Bomber" Graham, Jim Watt, Lennox Lewis, and Joe Calzaghe. Currently we've got Amir Khan, and I've just watched a 6 foot nine inch big lump called Tyson Fury who is to boxing what Homer Simpson is to intelligent debate. Perhaps time has moved on and boxing has become a sports pariah with regard to tv coverage. Maybe my memories of Harry Carpenter interviewing Frank Bruno or Joe Bugner at wembley belong to another era, when boxing was a way of making a lot of cash. Even amateur boxing is virtually invisible on our screens, yet is a massive draw at the Olympics.
I agree with you. I don't think boxing has helped itself with having so many different titles.WBA,WBC,IBF etc
the fury wasn't good,he reminded me of andrzej golota.the last fight i went watch was haye v klichko in hamburg.thank god i was as pissed as a newt and dont remember much.
Heavyweights died years ago as a sport, only Tyson invigorated the class. And the lighter classes don't draw the same support for the sport, even though they're nearly always more exciting. We need another good middleweight to wake up the british boxing fans. However I think that too many people have seen what a crooked sport it can be at times, and given up on it.
At least you didn't have the misfortune of forking out for the Khan vs Prescott fight a couple of years back where Ordinary Harrison got a boxing lesson from a Brazillian cruiser weight yet still 'won' on points. Khan down in 30 sec or so, and last train home missed, so £60 for cab from Manchester. Took the old fella for his birthday, and didn't even manage to get bevvied - s**t night and has put me off going to a live pro fight again.
Agree entirely, Fig. Used to regularly share a touchline with a journeyman heavyweight and the stories of the alleged calls he had from promoters were astonishing - "...can you take a match with xx, all the way to round 7?" And similar.
I remember Frank Bruno knocking down Tyson................and he stood there looking at him while everyone was screaming 'hit him again' (well, it was something like that)............either Bruno was so gobsmacked that he had floored Tyson and stood there in amazement, or it was a foregone result. AL
Wash your mouth out!!!! How the hell anyone can watch American Wrestling is beyond me Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks rigged but watchable. Boxing got too complicated and also now days considered a bit barbaric . Attitudes changed towards it.
