Comments on: Why Manny Pacquiao Can’t Save Boxing http://matadorsports.com/why-manny-pacquiao-cant-save-boxing Covering sports culture and personalities around the world. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:02:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Everyone Wants to Watch the Foreigner Fight http://matadorsports.com/why-manny-pacquiao-cant-save-boxing/comment-page-1#comment-2857 Everyone Wants to Watch the Foreigner Fight Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:46:37 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=2358#comment-2857 [...] was a former middleweight champion, and with his boxing shorts hiked up high and a fading Beer Singha T-shirt, he was a living, [...] [...] was a former middleweight champion, and with his boxing shorts hiked up high and a fading Beer Singha T-shirt, he was a living, [...]

]]> By: Adam Roy http://matadorsports.com/why-manny-pacquiao-cant-save-boxing/comment-page-1#comment-984 Adam Roy Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:42:25 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=2358#comment-984 Update: looks like Manny Pacquiao may have another superfight in his future: http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2009/12/01/source-mayweather-pacquiao-nearly-done/ Update: looks like Manny Pacquiao may have another superfight in his future: http://boxing.fanhouse.com/2009/12/01/source-mayweather-pacquiao-nearly-done/

]]> By: MannyPacquiao http://matadorsports.com/why-manny-pacquiao-cant-save-boxing/comment-page-1#comment-913 MannyPacquiao Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:06:20 +0000 http://matadorsports.com/?p=2358#comment-913 The whole boxing is dying debate is stupid boxing doesn't need saving. Try to look out of the box for a minute. There are over 6 billion people on the planet and a small portion of those exist inside the US. Now maybe, just maybe the boxing elite is largely composed of fighters that are popular in their native countries but not in the US. Manny Pacquiao is a fitting example of that. This man gets more views per fight than the Superbowl yet inside the US hes only been relatively well known for a year. It's a really narrow minded way of thinking of it as "Hey if it's not doing well in the USA then its obviously dying because nothing exists out of the USA". Boxing is at the very height of its popularity. It has taken Asia by storm the last few years and assimilated itself well in Europe as well over the past decade. It's kind of like Football or what you call Soccer. In America the Superbowl may blow the doors off Major League Soccer but in that big wide world the Superbowl is small fries compared to the English Premier League or European Champions League which rountinely fetch upto 10 to 15 times as many viewers as the Superbowl. The whole boxing is dying debate is stupid boxing doesn’t need saving.

Try to look out of the box for a minute. There are over 6 billion people on the planet and a small portion of those exist inside the US.

Now maybe, just maybe the boxing elite is largely composed of fighters that are popular in their native countries but not in the US.

Manny Pacquiao is a fitting example of that. This man gets more views per fight than the Superbowl yet inside the US hes only been relatively well known for a year.

It’s a really narrow minded way of thinking of it as “Hey if it’s not doing well in the USA then its obviously dying because nothing exists out of the USA”.

Boxing is at the very height of its popularity. It has taken Asia by storm the last few years and assimilated itself well in Europe as well over the past decade.

It’s kind of like Football or what you call Soccer. In America the Superbowl may blow the doors off Major League Soccer but in that big wide world the Superbowl is small fries compared to the English Premier League or European Champions League which rountinely fetch upto 10 to 15 times as many viewers as the Superbowl.

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