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.
Teddy Atlas is the color commentator for ESPN and he is also working Olympic boxing. Mosley is filling in for him.
I think Atlas once went to Tyson with a gun and told him to stay away from his daughter. He told that story on FNF a few months ago.
FNF has good coverage of boxing news between fights. Informative.
I agree with your comments about other sports and their popularity, but boxing is far from dead.
Surprised one of the boxers who signed those rip-off contracts with King, didn’t do a job on him. Also, I notice many of his fights used to have very bad decisions. I think he has lost his influence, but he appears with fighters now and then on Showtime.
BTW King talks like a conservative and always waves an American flag.