By Niall Doran
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AUSTRALIA has additionally massively contributed to boxing’s place within the pantheon of sports activities with the standard champions and star energy of fighters like George Kambosos, Tim Tszyu, Ebanie Bridges, and Skye Nicolson in latest occasions.
Fox Sports activities Australia, to their credit score, even have caught with boxing and completed nice issues for the game on the continent lately.
Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol of Russia have lately battered their manner by way of skilled boxing, like Usyk of Ukraine. They’re the archetypal highway warriors.
If Beterbiev and Bivol combat later this 12 months, it received’t solely be a match of two of the present finest pound-for-pound boxers of those occasions and probably all-time future greats, will probably be the most important all-Russian world championship boxing match ever.
Not solely that, it’ll possibly be the most important coming collectively of two of the toughest punchers, aside from Gervonta Davis and Deontay Wilder, of those occasions, in all of boxing, pound for pound. Carnage is assured within the ring.
Terence Crawford’s card in LA on August third rightly provides the person thought to be the pound-for-pound finest the massive platform he deserves.
The enigmatic Terence Crawford (Showtime)
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That is boxing completed larger and higher than ever. What’s extra, that is simply the early levels, too, it’s solely going to get larger and larger within the years forward.
All pushed by nice fights between the very best preventing the very best (largely). Some nonetheless escape followers for now like Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez vs David Benavidez.
Alas, occasions are altering, and whereas boxing has all the time survived, it’s doing way more than that now—flourishing after which some.
Hitting and never getting hit. Being thrilling whereas doing it. That’s skilled boxing on the highest degree.
Then you might have the titan of Amazon Prime, headed by Gervonta ‘Tank’ Davis, streaming boxing in America in 2024. Amazon Prime and Netflix are the 2 greatest streaming platforms on the earth, and each are in skilled boxing now. Take into consideration that.
Gervonta “Tank” Davis has now stopped his final 4 opponents
Peacock, which has roughly 34 million subscribers (a lot larger than DAZN and ESPN Plus), is displaying boxing. NBC, too, is displaying the Olympics subsequent week in America for novice boxing followers—and Olympics followers—eager on seeing fights on the 2024 Paris Video games. It’s not a nasty comeback for novice boxing on an enormous degree, both, given some shoddy video games years in the past.
After all, Peacock and NBC Sports activities are additionally in skilled boxing now, displaying fights with Boxxer of the UK, which has many worldwide TV companions and plenty of international locations exterior of the UK and US (not simply English-speaking locations).
All in all, in 2024, boxing is larger than ever.
Altering greater than ever too. General, these are thrilling occasions for the game often known as the candy science and noble artwork.
