Does Anyone Still Care About Boxing?

    The essentially dead sport that is boxing has a major fight this weekend.  Does anyone know or care?  34 year old undefeated champ Floyd Mayweather is fighting Victor Ortiz at MGM Grand in Las Vegas Saturday night.  The pay-per-view event which costs an absurd $59.95 is the biggest fight of the year, and Mayweather's first fight since he easily handled Shane Mosley a year and a half ago.  Mayweather is one of the biggest names in boxing but most people have gave up on the sport of boxing and focus their attention to the more intense, more brutal sport that is MMA and the UFC.
    UFC fights are usually worth the $40-50 price tag that they demand.  You see more than one good fight and usually witness a knock-out.  Boxing on the other hand usually supplies some boring fights in which the boxers dance around each other and don't entertain as much as UFC does.  There will be people who will defend the art of boxing versus the brutality of the UFC.  But for the foreseeable future, fans will opt to rent UFC fights rather than boxing.  Like my last blog post, the UFC is like 98.5 The Sports Hub, new, raw, uncut radio, while boxing is like the outdated, old-fashioned, essentially dead, WEEI.   Until Floyd Mayweather mans up and fights Manny Pacquiao, nobody will really care about boxing.  It's sad but boxing is not what it was when our fathers were growing up.