Who Will Be The Future “Face of Boxing”?

By Scoop Malinowski

Boxing has fallen so far in culture popularity and has a negative stigma after Mayweather’s disgraceful era and Canelo’s is also lousy because he’s basically a protected WWF pretender who runs from threats and challengers who are not “polite.” The public doesn’t trust boxing or respect it anymore. Just a small niche of a dwindling hardcore base. It’s hard to imagine how one big star can emerge from the wreckage and save the sport. If one does emerge, it will be the same old BS blueprint: he will be preserved and protected and milked for greed, like Floyd and Canelo and the cycle will repeat. The writing is on the wall, boxing probably will never rise again, unless something miraculous happens.

The last true, beloved face/hero of boxing was Manny Pacquiao but the crooked establishment screwed him over in favor of the black American fraud Mayweather. Pacquaio was the real star, the electric thriller who came to excite fans and give them their money’s worth. Floyd came to steal from the public and give you boring sparring sessions against handpicked “path of least resistance” opposition for a decade. This era of Floyd is what killed the sport and lost the trust of the public who no longer want to pay $60 to watch a soft business event to promote the invested fighter into his next “fight.” The establishment didn’t take advantage of the mighty, marvel, miracle that Pacquiao was.

Boxing has endured rough patches in the past and came out on top again when a certain heroic figure fighter carried the sport – Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Oscar De La Hoya, Mike Tyson, Gennady Golovkin, Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis, Ray Robinson.

Right now boxing will need another miracle in the shape, form and charisma of a fighter who can electrify the sport after the Mayweather/Canelo disasters.

But right now there is nobody that fits that bill on the boxing horizon.