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To: discostu

ESPN has Friday Night Fights most of the year and underway now.

The judging plays into the push for a particular fighter to move up.

Need one international and national governing body and franchises in each state that wants their fights licensed.

You can watch most levels of boxing in the US. In the west Fox Sports covers starters. ESPN has new pros and a main event.

I still disagree to the comment that boxing is dead.

Been following since the 50s and looks very much alive to me.


32 posted on 08/08/2012 12:39:49 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

Wow I watch a bunch of ESPN talk shows and can’t remember the last time I saw any kind of promo for FNF, really thought it had been gone for years.

Obviously boxing isn’t gone completely we still have the big fights. But really compare the audience the normal events get with just about anybody else. Even the small time mixed martial arts leagues get more viewers. The audience is gone. And it’s a shame, because at its best boxing is one of the purest sports, just dude vs dude, not a lot of rules, very little equipment. But it’s a sideline sport now, and it sidelined itself. Somebody should have shot Don King in the head in the 80s.


33 posted on 08/08/2012 12:52:13 PM PDT by discostu (Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.)
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