Boxing Is Insufferable To Watch & That's Why It's A Dying Sport 

i hadn’t realized how good ufc production was until i started watching boxing it’s literally night and day

In MMA, you could have 10 fights and be regarded as an exciting up and coming talent that needs to be marketed. In boxing, you could be 30-0 and no one has a clue who you are whilst still continuing to fight on mediocre undercards.

One thing everyone should be able to agree on, the undercards are an objective severe downgrade in boxing. Even just last week, we saw what happens when a main event falls through in the UFC. The co-main takes up the main event slot and fills the void with EASE. In boxing, when the main event goes, the whole card sinks.

I mean MMA fans know this already. I’m just glad to see that the boxing fans got to see it. Too many belts, too many weight classes, press conferences and rivalries aren’t as interesting The promoters are too involved. Too much emphasis on being undefeated. Not enough stars in boxing. The best don’t fight the best and the Fans are somewhat accepting that the best fights won’t happen. In the MMA, I somewhat believe that no one is afraid of no one. I think the issue is, they think it’s just sloppy street fighting. When in actuality, it’s two skilled and experienced Mixed Martial artist figuring each other out.

As a hardcore boxing fan I was completely embarrassed to be a boxing fan last night, it’s a circus now and I just wish that actual good fights like inoue vs Fulton or Spence vs Crawford would get the same amount of attention as these fury vs ngannou and KSI vs fury bs, it’s just a shame man recently I’ve been very underwhelmed with these fight like canelo vs charlo and what we saw yesterday, makes me glad that I’m a hardcore fan of both boxing and the ufc

I hate how this was treated like some kinda superbowl 😭. And the glorified halftime show before the main event was such a snooze fest.

I noticed these boxing events have a identity crisis, it’s like they don’t know whether to make it a.. Spectacle.. a Formal gathering.. a Savage blood sport.. or a Youthful festival. It’s like each one of those done poorly and half heartedly.

Congratulations to boxing on making a resurgence and becoming the best sport in the world

One of the biggest boxing failures is they fail to build any prospects. The UFC excels at that. Bo Nickal, Mohammad Mokaev, Umar Nurmagomedov. You know to watch these guys long before they get the title shot. In boxing, you don’t know who to watch until after they’ve won multiple belts. By the time I wanted to watch guys like Canelo or Gervonta Davis, they were already multiple time champs.

As a dude who prefers watching boxing over mma Lucas is 100% correct. Boxing is so stuck in the stone ages with promotion its actually embarrassing, if they want to actually succeed 20+ years from now they need to do something ASAP, even though boxing does better numbers than the ufc(excluding mcgregor of course)how many of those dudes are old heads who won't be here in 30 years? The UFC has been killing it with promotion the past couple years and I guarantee if you ask a group of 20 year olds about top mma fighters, they would probably know about them more than top boxers. It's actually sad cause when the best fight the best it's really a beautiful sport.

My friend is a professional boxer, and what you say about the event dragging on forever is exactly correct. The start will be delayed by an hour, there will be 30 minutes between each fight, there will be an 1.5 hour intermission for some sound cloud rapper to perform, then before the main event some chick sings the national anthem, and finally after 8 hours we get to the main event, despite there only having been about 6 before. It's torture to sit through.

The pace of the UFC is just perfect. Please don't change anything.

Boxing itself is a beautiful sport, but the politics ruin it so much

I like boxing and think it’s a beautiful sport but Mayweather economics have ruined it for me. Nothing more insufferable than hearing boxers talking about money.

Bob Arum is privileged to even be alive at this point.

I was about to be so disappointed that you didn’t go on a full on rant about the terrible production of the event yesterday. So glad to see this video

As a much bigger mma fan than boxing I found myself dying laughing listening to this rant because EVERYTHING HES SAYING IS TRUE 😂

That decision was absolutely disgusting this is exactly why Ill never take boxing serious its beyond corrupt and political

I don’t get it, time to time it’s proven boxing doesn’t go well with music concerts yet promotions keep doing it. We’re paying to see the fight nobody cares about lil baby wtf

Boxing press conferences show that boxers have too much cte to trash talk; they have to let their coaches and promoters talk the whole time.

Everyone bitching about everything from last night found out why i gave up on boxing 10 years ago and i love boxing as a sport, ive boxed since i was a kid, but as a business it's terrible

Boxing sucks because it’s so decentralized. UFC love them or hate them books the best fights have consistent production and has less politics. This makes for a better overall product.

The amount of rounds coupled with the fact that all the top boxers are terrified of getting an 0 on their record makes them so unbelievably gun shy that it just becomes a snooze fest

100% agree, watching the event yesterday with the wait times, between fights, the walkouts, it's brutal. I don't know how the crowd survived without alcohol, because i'd need to be piss drunk not to lose patience with all the waiting, 1000 interviewers all askibg the same questions. Tie it up with a post fight conference and call it a night.

I don’t mind waiting like 10-30 mins for transitioning to a main event but an hour or more is overdoing it

The old head photos took me out bro 💀💀

I feel that the 10 rounds of 3 minutes is way too much. It would be better if they did 7 rounds of 4 or 5 minutes, and allow fighters to get in rhythm, this in my opinion would result in more finishes (which boxing has none) and it would shift the way fighters train and condition themselves for the fight.

Lol you ain't gotta feel bad for us boxing fans. Tbh you will find a lot of boxing fans even rooting for Ngannou. Boxing is now more niche than mma, it ain't dying. Also this fight wasn't an L for boxing, just like Jake Paul KO against former UFC champs isn't really an L for the UFC 😅. I do agree the UFC does a better job promoting fights though, btw I'm in my 20s lol. Also don't forget a lotta UFC guys be begging to get into boxing just to make a buck 😅

I thought the time between fights and walkouts were too long in ufc. After that snail race on Saturday, I'll pipe down.

For me, Pacquiao was the last boxer that had a ton of excitement. That still doesn’t compare to MMA though

When influencers did boxing. Boxing literally died for me there.

It’s a mission trying to find out the undercard fights on boxing events, when you search ufc you literally get a nice line up showing all the fights along with the upcoming events

Boxing Is Not Dying 💀 Literally No Event Does Concerts The Only One That Has Was The Tyson Fight And Jake Paul Vs Askren + We Got Crawford Vs Spence Ryan Garcia Vs Gevronta Davis Devin Haney Vs Lomachenko Teofimo Lopez Vs Josh Taylor Etc Etc

Watching that last night was painful I’m an mma guy to and even fight in mma listening to those commentators in between the co main event, and main event mentioning how “Ronaldo is here, Kanye is here, Eminem is here” literally a few hundred times god it drove me insane, absolute CRAP!! Total circus it’s like WWE with boxing gloves on

I’m my opinion boxing events are showing their age. Slow, drawn out and more about the money than anything else. MMA, being younger, seems to be a pure a sporting event with hyped promotions and minimal politics onscreen. Of course a lot goes on behind the scenes.

I hâte boxing press conferences so much

There are 4 organizations, every event is centered on the main fight. There are always 6+ people talking at the press conference who don't even fight on the card. And when you watch it you always have to wait 30+ min between every fight

I’ve checked out mma, and I love it. I find boxing more entertaining but to be honest, y’all do everything else way better.

I agree mma is on the way to surpassing boxing. Definitely in the US. Boxing is alittle bit more complicated though. Imagine the UFC, PFL, Bellator and ONE all had the same amount of money and promotional power. It would be a fight to get the best fighters. Then it would be a fight to build up prospects and make them future stars. Fighter would have more options which for them is GREAT. It for fans that’s not always a positive. Fighters would avoid each other. Just like boxing and the similar problems that boxing has the mma community would have. MMA is so great in the states because the UFC pretty much has a monopoly and are the WWE of mma

Great video, I felt the exact same way waiting an hour between the co-main and the main event last night, i wanted to blow my brains out after hearing them tell 7 different random peoples life storys out, it was insufferable, literal torture to watch, UFC is 20x better

Do you guys remember when Canelo wanted to fight Messi because Argetina won a game against Mexixo in the World Cup.

The saying less is more rings so true. There's so much prestige and pageantry in boxing it's a real snooze.

Tbf people have been saying boxing has been dying since 2010 and yet it still here and boxers still make tones of money 🤷

Do pay per view buyers really pay to watch anything other than the boxing match? The large amount of time waiting to get to the actual fight they paid for has to get annoying.

Fully agreed on your points but i think are few points in favor of boxing compared to MMA. 1. The Hype, while having so many belts and thus making top ranked boxers of each belt organization fight each other nevertheless it creates hype, can1 compare the hype Manny-Floyd had or Lewis-Tyson to any mma fight? 2. Competitive history of fighters - While boxing builds up numbers of top tier proteges (all of them basicaly starting automathicaly 20-0 before having a first top tier fight), that " 0 " in the record still does hype things up, Wilder beat mostly canes and same can be said for Fury before Wladimir but both of them were creating buzz before finally proving themselves, in MMA you are a novice with little or no amateur background(many mma fighters started late teens or even early 20s fighting, while most boxers start in teens and have 100+ amateur fights before becoming pro) , you win 4-5 fights(also can be cherry picked to boost the odds dependend of who is more marketable and future proof) and suddenly you are in the top tier(top5-8) fighter, and same goes for tittle defending, you defend your title for 3-4 times suddenly you are a GOAT contender, i swear to you lets say today Miocic,Jones and Cain are considered goats for the majority, stop watching MMA for 5 years and then come back you will have some1 else replace them 3. Missmatches - certinaly in boxing there are types of fighters (in/out etc) but they dont influence the fight nearly as in MMA, for example if one of the 2 fighters is top tier BJJ and the other one is a striker i can guarentee you the way the fight is gonna go, almost all the action will be on the ground or attempts to take it to the ground

UFC embedded is a genius idea and shows the personality of fighters

UFC fans between fights: Lemme take a piss real quick. Boxing fans between fights: Lemme watch an episode of Stranger Things real quick.

Congratulations to Lucas for bringing back the sport of boxing.

the timer that indicated the time until the walkouts came in clutch, i was able to take a nap between the co main and the begining of the concert and then another nap until the actual walkouts

Lucas always haves me laughing so hard, arriving an hour after the co main 😂

I love how he calls him Bob Arup instead of Arum 😂

And then after waiting more than an hour for the main event, we got Fury taking his sweet sweet ass time waking out. Like holy shit that was frustrating

So true how boxing people look down on MMA it’s pathetic.

Who ever put the event did a horrible job making us wait an extra hour to see them fight and a rap performance bro it’s unnecessary asf I’m so glad this ppv didn’t even do 100k buys they lost all the money paying off Tyson and ngannou

Good video bro. Boxing promotion stuck in 1960's. Mr. King's old promotion still being used in 2023 Thanks to Francis "" making boxing great again""

Bro legit you hit all the points. The fucking concerts killed me like what the actual fuck.

I still love watching boxing but I can admit the way mma is run is way better

There is so much about boxing that could be fixed with basically no downside, but BY FAR the most unforgivably simple thing is the fact they can't even be bothered to put together some pictures of the fighters on the card so fans get a face attached to the name. I'm not talking about making promo packages for every fighter, that would cost money and God forbid the PROMOTION should PROMOTE a fighter, all they have to do is copy a photo of the fighters and paste it next to their name. It would take an unpaid intern 10 minutes, and it could do literally nothing but get eyes on the fighters that nobody in boxing cares enough to talk about. Boxing is dying for a lot of reasons, but the least controversial one to fix is to put just the bare minimum effort towards showcasing fighters that aren't already champions. Boxing is dying because basically EVERYONE who isn't a champion is entirely unknown to the boxing audience, not just the casual audience, i mean everyone who isn't hardcore. Boring personalities end up making it to the top because there's no way of finding anyone interesting that the audience can get behind. Even if they're not good, if they end up with even a small fan base, that's more than they had before, and more people might pay for the card if there's even one fight outside the main event they care about. Boxing promoters are literally some of the most greedy people on earth yet they still can't be bothered to try to PROMOTE their own fighters even though they're just leaving money on the table at this point. There's so much wrong with boxing but that's the most unforgivable one because with minimal effort literally everyone could benefit.

The fury v ngannou fight, I live in Perth, I got up at 4.30am because the internet said the main event starts at 5am, the fight didn’t start until 6.30 😂

294 was a really quick event coz most fights was a 1 round finish and it was only like 2 hours

Thank goodness I started switching over to mma a couple months ago, boxing has started coming back a bit with nelo and crawford but stuff like this just hurts the sport

Usually don't agree with your takes but god damn i agree with you word for word here. I legit didn't even know the fight was last weekend until i just seen a million reactions videos saying Francis won, everyone who i train with pirated it cause no one actually pays to watch boxing anymore. I couldn't even tell you one other fight on that card hell i didn't even know the event had a card i genuinely just thought the event was francis vs fury. Tbh i'm super biased though i never really like boxing, not to rag on anyone who loves it but to me i always just thought it wasn't close enough to a actual fight to tickle that combat sports itch for me it's why i love MMA.

Yeah there's too much "bloat" in boxing, and I think a big reason is all the different sponsors and promotions involved, this has the benefit of the fighters getting paid a lot more than MMA, but it also makes the conferences, interviews, and build up to the fight too long and complicated. It's kind of like the Superbowl, although in that case people actually tune in for the performances and ads during the game and find it entertaining. With boxing it's just meant to pad out time until the main event, since that's all people really tune in for, that's the big selling point, unlike a UFC card where fans are actually excited for fights that aren't just the main event.

Dude this is the best take I’ve heard in a minute. Subbed.

The future of boxing events might just turn into mulitple combat sports within one event. With a couple of the fights being traditional boxing, a couple bare knuckle mma fights, along with a couple bare knuckle boxing fights thrown in.

So it works like this: the 'best guys' go through their careers crushing cans, like the Arslanbek guy yesterday TKOd a guy in a minute, then they all sit at the top of an arbitrary ranking, and then barely fight each other. This is how you get a couple of guys who are supposedly 'best in the world' like Fury, who then in turn gets exposed by an MMA fighter. Any other fucking sport in the world has a coherent, definitive table which says who sits where, based on the competitions held between them. But not in the worlds most crooked sport/scheme of professional boxing. I hate it because i think its a magnificent martial art,bl but it has been absolutely ruined by its present oligarchy of matchmakers and, also, of how little it has accepted to change since its beginnings

MMA definitely has the advantage of having one promoter and one organization overseeing the promotion.

My favourite boxing promotion is world super series. Its a rapid action tournament that does away with the months and years of negotiations in regular pro boxing.

A-Men brother. Lol love your channel man just discovered it a week ago

The only fight I have seen actually promoted well was the Fury/Ngannou fight. The commercials for that were top tier. I have also never appreciated the UFCs production crew as much as I did after seeing the production of this past weekends event.

This wasn't a normal boxing event. It was a spectacle.

This is so real bru W lucas 😂

My favorite Tracy video, absolutely hilarious

As a boxing fan I agree with you on the production and average undercards etc - however you saying that the fights are boring is just down to personal preference - personally I much prefer a technical 12 round boxing match than a UFC fight - I honestly find UFC main events often extremely underwhelming, 1st round stoppages etc

It's taking people a lot longer to realize this than I thought.

I'm somewhat of a rare breed actually. I'm the type of guy who was always an MMA fan but slowly transitioned into more of a boxing fan. I still watch UFC alot because there are always good fights being made and I'm too curious to miss them but what made me slowly transition to boxing was I had enough of the wrestlefucking and laying and praying. I think the magomed ankalaev vs jan blachowiz and merab vs Yan really turned me off from mma. You know when people say if you don't like wrestling go watch boxing or kickboxing? Well I did lol, also because I'm training to become an amateur boxer in the future so that plays a part. But Lucas is still spot on, if only the UFC were to start doing boxing promotions then it would be the best thing ever with the way they market fighters and advertise cards

Boxing is still great, it just needs to drop all the multiple titles and have one champion per division, get rid of all the national anthems boring the hell out of us, have better undercards like they did in the 90's and most importantly champions need to fight more often! Fighting once a year just kills any momentum a good fight or champion can have.

I’ve been a boxing fan my entire life and ever since I started watching mma this year, I haven’t gone back

That thumbnail had me shook for a sec

fight was supposed to be 23:40 my time i arrived like 00:20 thinking i missed it realizing it havent even started yet just to wait an hour 01:20 for the fucking fight to finally start… that was weird ngl is that normal for boxing?

Lucas, what are your thoughts on muay thai? Specifically with 4 ounce gloves in One FC

You know Lucas you should give the Haney vs Prograis press conference a watch it was actually quite funny.

Unpopular opinion: I thinks press conference with coaches, mentors, promoters, and commentators would be cool, but just do it separate from the fighters as an exclusive for Fight Pass or something.

Shakur Stevenson just put the final nail in the coffin for me.

I found bare knuckle the best to watch live for casual viewing the fights are usually quick and or brutal and the next fight on the card happens very quickly compared to ufc or one.

Bruce Buffer also adds to the energy of the UFC fights. Boxing announcers sound like they have to be there lol

I accidentally fell asleep during the event... woke up and still had to wait for the main event walkouts.

Youre one of my new fav commentators

Boxing is such a corrupt sport they couldn’t let an mma guy take out the boxing heavyweight weight champ

I thought the main even was at 5, so I tunned in. That concert was awful, and it killed the momentum. I could have ran an errand and got back to still see the fight. What a joke, who does a concert before the main event.

Once I make it big in the ufc, I’ll Be listening on your RU-vid for advice.

I love Boxing and MMA, but at the end of the day I would rather people be forced to stand up and fight until they fall. MMA can have entire fights taken over by ground game, which is fun sometimes, but mostly boring.

I think boxing only looks like that within the American scene. It’s doing well in other countries like the Japan, UK, and Mexico. Unfortunately boxing isn’t as controlled like the UFC or other MMA organizations but the sport itself shouldn’t be represented off of yesterday’s event.

Boxing>. Because of the Ali act.

Lucas forgot that the boxing promoters are all “crafty vets” and you can never underestimate the IQ of a crafty veteran like Bob Arum.

as boxing fan he’s right boxing is so boring the press conference you have every talking for no reason taking the shine away from the fighters by the time you get to actually hearing them . i didn’t watch canelos last match becuz i forgot they were fighting tbh

Mohammed Usman would beat Tyson fury in real fight.

I just came here to agree with the headline. I watched the event and I will never again watch a boxing event holy shit it was painful and took a whole fucking day.

This video was needed .

5:45 your impression of the 'oldhead' is hilarious🤣 not the dancing monkeys