Boxing is dead.
It’s the oldest saying in the sport. For decades, critics have loudly been proclaiming the death of the sweet science, yet here it is, continuing on in the face of this constant death-knell. And yet there’s no denying that, from a business standpoint, the sport is in a slump right now - a slump that can pretty clearly be traced back to one date.
May 2, 2015. That’s the day the two greatest fighters of this generation finally stepped into the ring. Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao had danced around each other for years, and here, they met.