Are there any boxing fans here that can help me figure something out?

See yesterday I decided to order the Mayweather - Cotto PPV and have a few beers. I haven't watched a boxing PPV since Tyson - Hollyfield and though maybe it'd be interesting.

The problem is, it wasn't really. Except for the upset KO in the first undercard every fight was one sided and boring. The announcers were like "this guy is definitely going to win" and after a round or two they're all like, the fight's over, so and so will win guaranteed.

I mean for the second undercard the guy was supposed to fight someone but they had to pull out of the fight a month ago so they found some washed up guy who lost like 7 out of 10 of his last fights just to give their guy an easy victory.

I'm starting to think that's how boxing works, you only agree to a fight your guy is guaranteed to win. You don't want a challenge at all, you want to protect your record so you can be a future contendor.

The third undercard you get a 21 year old taking on a 40 year old Mosley who's pretty much done with boxing. Mosley barely puts up a fight, gets beaten to a pulp for 12 rounds and the announcers the whole time make it clear there's no way for Mosley to win, barring an impossible KO, so why am I watching? They say things like 'he gets one round for showing up but that's it 11-1 round loss. Okay that fight was lame, there was no suspense, I just watched a 40 year old make $600,000 just to get beaten up one last time before retiring.

Then the main event the whole time the announcers again are like it's impossible for Mayweather to lose. Cotto won a few rounds but he's just not good enough..

So obviously Mayweather just picks guys he can beat, makes $40,000,000, we all pay $60 to watch...for what?

And it seems like there wont be a Mayweather - Paquanio (sp) fight because they both need to keep fighting fights they'll win to make their money and keep their image and records.


I mean it'd be like okay for the Super Bowl this year let's have the best team play a mid-ranked team just so our Super Bowl team looks good and we make money.


Am I wrong, or is this what's going on? Because the entire night all they kept saying is 'oh yeah this main guy is going to win no matter what'.

i use to box, also i dont even know where to watch it
i love the sport

The infrastructure of boxing - the organizations, the belts - is eating it from the inside out. It's losing popularity in the states. MMA is nine times out of ten, more entertaining to watch. The future doesn't look to bright for the sport, at least not in the states. As for Mayweather, he's made a career out of cherry picking opponents but Cotto is one of the tougher he's faced, and it showed. It still feel a prime Pacman beats Floyd, but Pac's been at this a bloody long time.

Boxing has been something of a joke for quite some time.

When I was younger, I would enjoy a good boxing match, but that was also when they were still 15 rounds and were still available to watch on network tv. IMO corruption has killed the sport here in America, not sure if it can ever be brought back to it's former glory..