That's why I threw away all my Metallica tapes and CD's. Those fucking whiners ruined online music sharing.
Boxing is not dead, certain divisions are dying especially the heavyweight division but the marquee fights are still heavily watched. The promoting isn't as good as it used to be but people will never stop paying to watch people fuck each other up. You are also kidding yourselves if you think Football is going anywhere.
I'll take boxing over UFC any day. It's just sweaty guys hugging on the mat with a punch thrown in every once in a while. Boxing is where it is at.
Football will continue to be played long after the Earth is dead and humanity has boarded generational starships to search out a new home. It might not look exactly like it does to day the same way football doesn't look like it did 50 years ago, but, it will still be here.
BTW, still waiting on your compelling evidence showing soccer to equal or surpass the severity of NFL injuries. Beauty in fighting is not something everyone agrees on. I'd claim that more tantrums are directed at me for not "appreciating" boxing but I digress. Sorry if you and others can't handle an opposing view. I'll gladly remain as ignorant as possible about an event (not sport) that focuses on bashing an opponent's head in yet still comment on it as being wrong. I have that right.
Seriously? I've never seen a match in 15 years minimum. I thought this fringe sport had completely died but it looks like some folks here are ardent supporters and a tad bit torqued that I'm not aware of the fine art of boxing that is apparently thriving better than ever. I can't recall Fox or ESPN carrying a boxing match but then again, I don't look for it. Are they ever in prime time or at midnight? Just curious. I have greater exposure to little league world series, hockey and dreaded curling than this "sanctioned" rigged "sport". It's always been run by shady thieves and crooks. It's as corrupt as it is ridiculous. The ridiculous part is my opinion. I think humans should be evolving at a better rate than this. But that's just me. To each their own. Sorry for hitting a nerve and being (intentionally) ignorant about boxing. What was the main topic anyway?
Boxing is a sport. Kickboxing is a sport. Muay Thai is a sport. Wrestling is a sport. Judo is a sport. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is a sport. Most of these are in the Olympics. Most of these are the national sport in their country of origin. All of them are hundreds of years old in their current form, their roots tracing back thousands of years. All of these styles take lifetimes of technical practice to master. Prankraton was a fighting sport in Ancient Greece almost identical to MMA in concept; it was one of the original Olympic sports. These are the disciplines that compose Mixed Martial Arts in its modern form. To argue then that MMA is not a sport is quite ridiculous. Your argument is as narrow minded as someone saying football is just mindless vicious hitting and tackling. Stupid people mock that which they do not understand. Smart people learn to understand what they do not. Be a smart person. And please don't twist my words. I said that soccer has the highest injury rate among kids. I recall the study from a weightlifting book that I gave to my dad so I won't be able to post it up until later.
Ah, I see you are another of those that because you are unaware of something you go under the mistaken assumption that it does not exist at all. I really don't give a damn whether you watch, follow or are interested. My comments were to make you aware that you were wrong, because of that I you erroneously feel you "hit a nerve" or that I am "a tad bit torqued". To answer your question, yes most matches are in prime time but can be affected by what country they originate in, they are also generally rerun at other times because there is enough of an audience from those that missed the live broadcast. Let's also add to this that although you admit to have not seen a match in 15 years, that you couldn't name one boxer in the last 20 years and you thought boxing had died but you now claim it is "rigged", "run by shady thieves and crooks" and is "as corrupt as it is ridiculous". What is ridiculous is that you claim to know so much about something that you obviously and by your own admission know nothing about.
I see, a smart person would agree with you and your rationales. Got it. I'm not so smart, obviously. But I don't respect fighting as a sport. That's it. It's a form of self-defense and I won't promote it as being beautiful. BTW, you brought up the soccer thing as a comparison. But I've gone on too long with you on this already and we're both repeating ourselves. I think we both know where we stand. Cheers.
Beauty in anything is subjective, however the majority of people find beauty in certain things. Mastery of anything is beautiful imo. It falls under the definition of "sport". You may not like it, or think it's barbaric but it surely is a sport.
No, apparently I stand corrected. I swear I was just being honest. I thought it was pretty much dead. My apologies to the wonderful, big machine known as boxing. It's good to be enlightened. As for it being rigged, that has nothing to do with my not following the "sport". The history of boxing is filled with corruption which seeped into Olympic play as well. If you want to deny this, you just go right ahead. My intent here is not to argue with boxing fans and their sick event. I'm not sure why you think I'm so snarky about this. I honestly haven't seen a fight in ages. I catch ESPN and all the major sports year-round but never see a fight. But you corrected me on that. I thought the event was too corrupt for major networks to carry and thought it was a fringe pay-per-view thing that cockfighters and violent types had to keep their fix with. Oh. well. Live and learn. Feel free to get the last word in since I'm out on this - I think we've both made our points on this topic which somehow evolved from NFL shelf-life. Cheers.
So after multiple snide remarks including a few more in this post you are not sure why I think you are snarky? How about "I thought the event was too corrupt for major networks to carry and thought it was a fringe pay-per-view thing that cockfighters and violent types had to keep their fix with." or "It's always been run by shady thieves and crooks"? I can see that you are the type to continually comment on things you know nothing about, I am sure I won't be the only one calling you on it. Last "word".
I'm not a boxing fan and haven't been for a long time, but it's not dead. It's been kept alive by a ground roots element, compulsive gamblers, crooked infrastructure and Pay Per View. All of which combine to make a lot of money change hands. I don't personally find it entertaining, but since there are enough people interested in it to keep the free events on cable and second tier events on HBO/Showtime/whatever, it will continue to be alive.
I guess nobody saw the LOL I put a few posts later... The Jets could go away tomorrow and it would suck but I would be fine... -_-
One of the things about football that would make it very hard for me to do without it is the way it transitions from my favorite time of the year to my least favorite, me being increasingly a hater of winter, this time being the best time of the year. We all associate football with the fall, with most high school football schedules ending somewhere aroun Thanksgiving. But adding in camp, pre-season and all that before the regular season, and the playoffs and SB at the end, it ends up being more than six months, and I love that aspect alone about football. It somehow is a point of interest, even a sort of assist, in that yearly transition. By the time the SB is over, we're about near halfway through the winter. I get by anticipating spring and summer. In short there's a role football plays in the rhythm of the seasons i would really miss if it werent' there.
Football is going to be gone at the high school level outside of a few states in the next decade or two. The evidence of post-concussive long-term damage is too strong at this point. Texas and a few other states will maintain football but most states will just let it vanish slowly as the weight of decisions like the one above piles up. The Ivy League will be done with football in the same time frame. It'll take longer for many other conferences to get rid of it due to the lucrative TV contracts but most of them will ditch it also. If not of their own volition lawsuits will compel them. College football players suffer concussions also and as they age they're going to file suit just like the pro players did. It'll be a longer time in coming but there are many many more potential plaintiffs out there.
