The West may have seen its great glory days past it now, as the East and places in the Middle East continue to take off, but boxing can also still use the West, expand there, and, expand further into the East.
English is still the number one language on Earth by some margin as things stand, Chinese and Spanish likely the next most popular
after that.
But boxing is coming into a time soon where it will be doing more and more events than ever in the East.
Not just Saudi Arabia but other places as well. Mike Tyson had a successful trip recently to Libya promoting some boxing events there and of course the likes of China and India offer big opportunities for boxing as well.
Their populations are huge and crucially, if you add up all the English speakers in both places, there are many millions, maybe many tens of millions, maybe close to a hundred million or maybe much more that can speak some English.
Their populations combined alone together are nearly 3 billion after all, maybe a little less, maybe a little more.
The exact number changes yearly.
The point is professional sport, which professional boxing comes under, is big in all countries.
Why Boxing Can Expand More Aggressively Into English Speakers In The East
Japan has continued to put on amazing events and shows with lighter weight world champions as well, with many English speakers there as well.
Boxing needs to tap into this more in the time ahead and not always rely on Las Vegas in the US and London in the UK for big events.
The big stadium shows in the UK are great and will continue, and big fights will continue in America of course, but boxing must think bigger.
With Netflix, Paramount, DAZN and many others, and rights holders all over the world, in the connected digital age and now new technological distribution that boxing will soon have at its disposal, boxing cannot miss out on this big opportunity.
To further expand to new fans and again, slightly reduce the age of the fan and demographic worldwide who watch big boxing events.
If you look at some of the amateur and smaller tournaments that have gone off quietly in Saudi Arabia as well in Mike Tyson’s new gym there, it has been shown that new fans and new participants in the sport, younger ones, take to the sport of boxing well.
There is an argument that boxing should be put back in schools like it was back in the day, society might benefit from that too and if more new governments continue to invest in boxing like they have done recently, that is something they can also think about.
At the highest level of the sport, professional world championship boxing, the best are fighting the best more often than ever lately then they had been.
This can inspire the next generation of young fighters and new young fans of boxing in the East as well.
The future of boxing in both the West and the East is undeniably very bright, alas, and will be in the time ahead for the foreseeable future.
Boxing will be made great again.
Rest assured.
Boxing will use its downloaded intel from previous companies in the market and iterate much better now in the new age of the sport shortly.
