Boxing gets a standing 8 count..

At one point in my life I was the self proclaimed biggest boxing fan in the world. I watched every Showtime and HBO fight. I ordered every PPV fight and watched every Friday Night Fights. I was a junky and boxing was my fix.

April 22ND 1995 tested my boxing loyalty when George Foreman won a decision vs Axel Schulz. You could argue that Foreman barely won a round let alone a majority decision! Schulz was robbed and everyone knew it! This was not the first time I had seen a bad decision but this was so blatantly obvious it felt like a personal insult.

It’s no secret that boxing has taken a hit in popularity with the rise of MMA. Jim Lampley would argue that boxing has seen this before and overcome it, and he would be correct.

This week we received news out of the Pacquiao camp that a fight with Mayweather is highly unlikely to happen this year. They issued a deadline on their offer and received no response from Team Mayweather. This is most likely in large part to Roger Mayweather’s (Floyd’s trainer) pending criminal case.

Could you imagine if this fight never takes place? At a point when boxing is losing fans by the 1000’s they’re struggling to put together what would be the richest fight in the sports long history. Both fighters would receive an estimated 40 million each!

Every month that passes the UFC continues to put together meaningful fights that fans want to see and boxing refuses to answer the bell.