[golf lover]

Does anyone care about boxing any more?

[LT Brass Bancroft]

I do.

[amnestynone]

“Does anyone care about boxing any more?”

Interesting observation. After reading this I realized that I had no idea who the heavy weight champion was and the last one I even herd of was Evander Holyfield. This seems to be a forgotten sport, maybe it is politically incorrect.

[SamAdams76]

Boxing is definitely a declining sport in terms of mass audience. The sport has its devoted fans but the average guy on the street will not be able to tell you who the current heavyweight champion of the world is.

Ask that question in 1975 and nearly everybody would have told you Muhammed Ali without hesitation. Then the movie "Rocky" came out the following year and boxing reached it's peak of popularity.

Howard Cosell, a very popular sportscaster from the 1970s and arguably the greatest sportscaster of all time, championed the sport and helped bring it into widespread popularity to where even housewives were watching it.

Towards the end of his career, Cosell would become disgusted with boxing and vowed to have nothing to do with it and as a result, boxing went into decline. Then the antics of Mike Tyson put a final nail in the coffin.

[Straight Vermonter]

Pay per view killed boxing.

[opbuzz]

Did anyone ever care about golf?

[Hugin]

A lot of fans have gone over to Mixed Martial Arts (MMA). More action, more different strategies, and mostly much closer to actual fighting.