The sport of boxing is in a great place right now, better than ever before, but improvements and looking for the edge are always needed.
It never steps boxing or professional sport, it is relentless and doesn’t ever take a day off, not on birthdays, Christmas, dead people funerals, never, it never retires.
That said, as good as boxing is doing now, it needs to go further and be more aggressive.
New world champion Rolly Romero who shocked the world by beating Ryan Garcia on UD last weekend has said that some fighters not delivering numbers are getting paid too much, and there is too much of ‘looming fights’.
Essentially, building up fights and rematches before they happen.
Case in point, nothing is done until it is done. The Ryan Garcia vs Devin Haney rematch was meant to happen this year until Romero’s shock last Friday.
Boxing has seen some other fights in recent years not happen either, as well, like Anthony Joshua vs Deontay Wilder for instance.
Boxing as it now returns to a golden age and time must go further, be smarter, more aggression needed in growing the sport.
More frequent highly quality cards and fights and further to Romero’s point above, Dana White and TKO Boxing can maybe add performance bonus incentives to fighters to try to get them to fight better.
Further to last Friday’s New York Fatal Fury event garbage, it would be appropriate.
Boxing doesn’t always have to sell pay per views at 90 bucks a pop in the US anymore neceassily either.
A lower, more efficient price point has been found recently which creates more buys, more profits and better fan experience.
Chris Eubank Jr vs Conor Benn is that blue print in the US, and worldwide, too, at slightly different points for developing markets and so forth.
