2007-01-08 14:04:50 · 9 answers · asked by johndoe10101 1 in Sports ➔ Boxing
BOXING APPEALS TO MEN'S MOST BASEST INSTINCT. MAN AGAINST MAN IN ITS TRUEST MOST BRUTAL FORM.
2007-01-08 16:25:46 · answer #1 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because its a true international sport which dates back thousands of years. It was a major sport in the earliest olympic games. The 20th century saw many great fights that captured the public's imagination and also had great political significance attached to them. During WW2 there was Louis-Schmelling, in which the Nazis hoped to make a statement about racial superiority. Later, Frazier-Ali was the Fight Of The Century, and simply one of the greatest battles in the history of the rine. By the way, these two fights are the only fights that can really be called FIGHT OF THE CENTURY, in my opinion. Why is boxing so popular? there is something so pure about it that no other sport has. There is such drama and emotion. There is nothing like it. As Don Sheridan once said speaking of the heavyweight championship: 'its like the superbowl, the world series, and the academy awards all rolled into one' What other sport is like that?
2007-01-08 22:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there were great boxers and great rivalries. Hearns-Hagler, Ali-Frazier, Ali-Forman, Hagler-Leonard. The arrival of Mike Tyson was the most exciting time for boxing because he dominated everybody. When he fell on hard times, that was pretty much the end of boxing. Foreman's return and the emergence of Holyfield brought a little notoriety back into boxing, but nothing matched the Ali days.
In the early 00's, boxing tried to make a comeback and it could have if there was another heavyweight that could stand toe to toe with Lennox Lewis on a regular basis. Wladimir Klitschko probably could have, but Lewis avoided him the last couple of years before his retirement.
I honestly think the brutality and speed of the fights in the UFC will bring an end to boxing.
However, boxing wasn't popular over the entire century. Maybe from 1950 up.
2007-01-08 22:12:59 · answer #3 · answered by owensb01 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Irish immigrants were some of the best boxers and probably was the reason it became so popular in the beginning of the 20th century.
2007-01-09 03:59:26 · answer #4 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boxing is a sport were you don't need a education to be a millionaire.boxing is a way out for some people. employers won't hire a felon even if he has changed his ways but he can always box and be a hero and finacialy secure. ask benard hopkins and don king.
2007-01-09 20:17:04 · answer #5 · answered by saxaphonist 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was popular, if mostly illegal, in the 17th and 18th centuries in both England and the U.S. Ranked right up there with ratting , cock-fighting, dog-fights and bull-baiting.
2007-01-08 22:14:41 · answer #6 · answered by Info_Please 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fight sports are the most physically demanding sports out there.
2007-01-08 22:14:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ali, i love watching him fight.
2007-01-08 22:09:50 · answer #8 · answered by weskisats9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it became popular because of... MANNY PACQUIAO!!!
PINOY AKO!!!
2007-01-08 22:08:53 · answer #9 · answered by LyFiSabLiSs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋