Heather Hardy, Coruption and Why Boxing is.

Dying

Unbeaten Featherweight Champ Heather Hardy crossed over to make her MMA debut last weekend. Scoring a knockout in her debut against her MMA opponent.

In that fight she made more money than any of her previous boxing fights.

She has great heart, smart, intelligent and can fight. Yet boxing is still stuck in the dark ages and do very little to promote the female game.


Mayweather vs McGregor is not the first boxer vs MMA fight there has been.
Though it has been mostly been Boxers moving to MMA.

The fighter making the transition has much the tougher task as they are adapting to the sport.

The biggest star in the UFC a few years ago was Ronda Rousey, she had an aura of invincibility around her, the highest paid star, unthinkable boxing would ever reach a stage like that. But who beat her, a former female boxing champ Holly Holm. The real challenge is showing that your boxing skills can compete against any other fighting discipline, not saying other fighters are restricted by fighting to boxing rules.


But Holm and Hardy show how MMA has embraced female fighters, and over in that arena they can make decent money.

The UFC also doesn't have fighters cherry pick their fights, they match top fighters against top fighters, no ducking. Boxing at this moment doesn't do that

Boxing has also been littered with bad decisions, and poor officiating, the sport seems filled with corruption and hometown decisions the money man getting the rub of the green time and time again.

Kovalev regarded a a p4p top ten fighter fighting another top 10 p4p fighter the number 1 and 2 in the division, only took home $1 million for the rematch with Ward.

You take out the top 5-10 superstars in the sport and boxers earn very little. And then they end up bankrupt later in life like so many big stars of the past.

All of this is driving people away from boxing, and rightfully so.

You will notice now, that many boxing fans are generally older, showing that it is not attracting new fans to the sport. Fighters will be looking towards MMA as somewhere where they can earn good money and not be cheated because their face doesn't fit.

Is there a reason why boxing cannot fix these issues?
And what needs to be done to prevent boxing's further decline?