TV eventually destroyed boxing. Now you have MMA and just look at how short the ‘careers’ are there. The NFL is committing suicide. So what will happen? Initially the college game will benefit. But if football goes away then some other game (Hockey?) will rise. Then again, Hockey is battling with how to deal with “concussion syndrome”, too.
I’d see some hockey hits on sports center and marvel that the player was killed or paralyzed.
TV didn’t kill boxing. Don King and 100 “championship” belts killed boxing. The game became too corrupted with too much theater. Every fighter was a champion somewhere, vast negotiations would go into how the purse would be divided, and there was the vast dreg of nobodies getting paid to lose just to make sure “champions” got to have sexy records like 30-2 with 21 knockouts. The only contribution TV had in that was that it allowed people to see enough matches to figure out there must be some funny business for all these “champions” to always have these nearly undefeated records, and to notice there were 2 dozen “heavy weight champions of the world”. Boxing killed boxing, TV just showed us why it was already dead.