To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by hype and tomfoolery rivalling, at times, that of carnival circuses.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.
That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.
The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for - to see the bad guys get beat.
I've met some of the most interesting, dimensional, and kind people of my life in that subculture and around the sport. And it seems to me that boxing is one of those structures that is designed to promote harmony. I think that it is a stove that contains that fire in us and makes it safe and useful.
Boxing is made for film - there is corruption, violence, tragedy and the chance that the underdog can catch the champion with one lucky punch.
Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.
I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.
Boxing is a noble sport.