Super Bowl Opinion: 10 Reasons Boxing Is More/Less Entertaining Than Football

I am an avid lover of boxing. I do not understand/love any other sport. So tonight, I attempted to watch the Super Bowl to further understand the love for football, and I get it and I don't at the same time.

I can understand why there are so many fans of the sport. I still don't believe football to be a greater sport than boxing, but I've composed a fair list of boxing's five advantages and disadvantages compared to football.

Enjoy!

5. Reason Boxing Is More Entertaining Than Football—No Commericials

This video is an example of a classic no-commericials interrupted in-ring drama. This sustained intensity is nearly impossible in Football.

Since boxing left network television, the main sources of pugilism have been rival cable networks Showtime and the current holy grail of boxing, HBO. These networks show no commercials, unlike FOX, ABC and CBS who show plenty and often.

5. Reason Football Is More Entertaining Than Boxing—Great Commericials

Here is one of the latest classic Superbowl Commercials featuring popular rapper Eminem.

One thing I did notice about the Super Bowl was how brilliant the commercials were. I guess when you have to spend millions of dollars on an ad, you better make it a good one. I say bravo to the copy writers and ad guys behind the best commercials at the Super Bowl.

4. Reason Boxing Is More Entertaining Than Football—Less Athletes To Learn

As you'll quickly notice in the video, the only people of MAJOR importance you need to know are the two fighters' names, their trainers, and the referee (that can change how a fight is fought). That's a total of five TRULY necessary people.

In boxing, all I need to know is my fighter and his trainer and my fighter's foe and his trainer. The referee may become important, too, depending on if his known style of refereeing will impede certain directions the fight could take (example: Floyd Mayweather vs. Ricky Hatton).

In football, they have 11 players on both teams.  Of course, they each have a head coach. Then you have certain players benched and also have separate offensive and defensive teams. A real football aficionado will likely learn as many as 30 or more names for one game!

Sheesh. I think I'll stick to my five-name sport.

4. Reason Football Is More Entertaining Than Boxing—More Personalities

Here's just a sample of those personalities in football touchdown celebrations.

Football has numerous players working as a team to defeat or dethrone a team of other numerous players. When all these men of various backgrounds get together to wrestle in the dirt over a small piece of pigskin, something interesting comes out of it.

Personality.

Sometimes it's personality clashes that are entertaining as players get into scuffles and intense arguments, helmet-throwing and whatnot. Other times, it's the touchdown celebrations that include all kinds of gyration, silly face-making, back-flipping, dipping and the random natures of man.

Football can be highly unpredictable with so many different personalities on the field, all with their own set of problems, annoyances and tolerance levels.

3. Reason Boxing Is More Entertaining Than Football—Various Weight Classes

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Boxer Roberto Duran sets to unload a punch during a 1983 fight at the Orange Bowl, Miami, Florida. (Photo by Al Messerschmidt/WireImage)

More weight classes means more possibilities.

Boxing started off with eight weight classes. These various weight classes separate small people, medium-sized people and big people into very contained weight specifications.

Flyweight (112 lbs.) is a distinctive difference from welterweight (147 lbs.) and that is very different from heavyweight (no limit). And all the divisions in between further separate the fighters.

Today's boxing has 17 weight classes. This means that if you're favorite fighter is on his way out in one weight class, you could find another favorite fighter in an entirely different weight class.

You don't have to look at that particular weight class in which your favorite fighter dominated and compare every new up-and-coming fighter to the great fighter who inspired you.

3. Reason Football Is More Entertaining Than Boxing—One Championship

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ARLINGTON, TX - FEBRUARY 06: Charles Woodson #21 of the Green Bay Packers celebrates in the locker room with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl XLV 31-25 against the Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium on February 6, 2011 in Arlington,

With there being only one NFL Super Bowl championship handed out a year, that makes the best in football a very straightforward argument rather than the HIGHLY opinionated one that boxing is.

Boxing has four major sanctioning bodies with world titles in each weight class. None of the bodies have distinguished themselves enough to become more important than the other so there exists at least four world championships at each and every weight class in boxing.

With there being 17 weight classes, that makes 68 world title belts.

Now even if you just follow one weight class, you still have four champions at that weight class. Now many writers' pound-for-pound lists are supposed to take care of this debate by arguing who is the best in spite of weight class.

Pound-for-pound is a title given to the fighter who would be the best if he were able to fight in another weight class. These titles often lead to strong debates over who is in the top-10 or even deserving of wearing the crown of pound-for-pound because the argument is still more opinion than statistic.

2. Reason Boxing Is More Entertaining Than Football—Ends At Any Moment

This fight exemplifies the spontaneous combustion that is the sport of boxing. Tommy Hearns Vs. Roberto Duran...very short and brutal fight.

In boxing, there's a thing called "puncher's chance." It's the chance that any one punch hit the wrong way can knockout, wobble or change the course of a fight. Football is not like that.

Football is played over the course of four quarters and will be played over those four quarters, every game. Boxing is scheduled for 12 rounds, but the likelihood of the average boxing match going all 12 rounds is moderately low.

Knockouts sometimes occur at random moments and can end a competitive match in the blink of an eye.

2. Reason Football Is More Entertaining Than Boxing—Scoring System Is Better

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TAMPA, FL - FEBRUARY 01: The scoreboard shows the final score of Pittsburgh Steelers 27 and the Arizona Cardinals 23 during Super Bowl XLIII on February 1, 2009 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)

Football is just simple to score. Touchdowns get you six points. Field goals give you three. A two-point conversion gives you, *gasp* two points.

In boxing, rounds are scored nine to the loser and 10 to the winner of the round, unless the loser was knocked down, deducted points by the referee or just beaten unrealistically bad.

A point is deducted for each knockdown received. Unfortunately, in fights without knockdowns or penalizing deductions, fans have to trust that judges are looking for what their fighter has.

Some judges score a round for the fighter that is the aggressor, constantly in the ring stalking the other opponent even if that opponent is hitting them very cleanly and often and the aggressor isn't landing any punches to collect points.

Other judges will reward a player for backing up and not throwing any punches just so long as he is able to avoid getting hit for the most part.

And let's face it, some judges just sleep with their eyes open during a match or receive some type of compensation ($) for their scorecard because boxing has robbed so many men out of their blood, sweat and years.

The only other sport judges to commit more robberies are those in MMA (mixed martial arts).

1. Boxing Is More Entertaining Than Football—Knockouts Thrill Over Touchdowns

Here I present to you Knockout of the Year 2010. Sergio Martinez Vs. Paul Williams

Knockouts and touchdowns

Knockouts are fierce, sudden and earth-shattering dream-crushers.

Touchdowns are decently exhilarating, but the hair-on-the-back-of-the-neck moments are rare.

Knockouts produce far more instant fireworks and seat-jumping antics than touchdowns, in my humble opinion.

1. Football Is More Entertaining Than Boxing—The Best Play the Best

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ARLINGTON, TX - FEBRUARY 06: The Green Bay Packers hold up The Vince Lombardi Trophy after the defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers 31 to 25 in Super Bowl XLV at Cowboys Stadium on February 6, 2011 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Image

Football is a sport that is organized into seasons and playoffs, and all sorts of processes of elimination that dwindle the many football teams down to the two best. Those two teams compete in the Super Bowl.

Boxing doesn't have a Super Bowl. The closet thing we have are superfights that keep getting written about, talked about, debated about, but never signed.

Are the fighters scared of each other? Possibly.

Are the fighters too egotistical? Maybe.

Do their separate promoters get along? Nope.

Boxing is a sport where a million things jeopardize a dream match. Hardly ever do the two best pound-for-pound boxers ever actually face each other.

As time went on and paychecks got bigger, somehow fighting the best just didn't seem so necessary to become rich in the sport of boxing.

This route is part of the reason boxing is confined to the walls of cable television as other sports thrive on "regular TV" where there are more homes, more people, more faces, more eyes watching.

If this current route in boxing continues to be taken, boxing will surely die, becoming nothing more than an acquired taste to sports fans.