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Wow Kid, I am down on boxing's coverage as a sport but not because I think others like MMA are better. MMA IMO can't, if I can quote Larry Holmes after losing to Michael Spinks correctly,"hold my jockstrap". My point was more to what you had said about the two thirds of people, who without ever watching a fight, will dismiss boxing, and MMA for that matter, as barbaric. It is hard to make new fans when 90% of the media will not cover you without slanting in their idelogy.

Nascar in some ways has become the current fad of watching a trainwreck that everyone wants to see, not to put boxing in that low of a class. It would be nice if you could get some new fans to boxing, but it needs to be marketed correctly. I noone here wants to admit it but the last big upswing of fans came from freakin Tyson. PBF and others are great but they don't give us the early 80's version of fights, Leonard, Duran, Hearns, Haglar, Mugabi, Pryor, Argeullo. It held over the public with great fights and personalities. Now we have the personalities in spots but the great fights are lacking to get a 10 year old version of myself into watching boxing, and not the trainwreck.