{"id":37133,"date":"2025-12-29T01:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxings-small-halls-crisis-why-the-sports-lifeblood-is-struggling-for-breath\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T01:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:45:05","slug":"boxings-small-halls-crisis-why-the-sports-lifeblood-is-struggling-for-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/boxings-small-halls-crisis-why-the-sports-lifeblood-is-struggling-for-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing&#8217;s small halls crisis: Why the sport&#8217;s lifeblood is struggling for breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the north of England, it costs Wood around \u00a315,000 to stage a good card. That is before a fighter is paid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Down south, it is more expensive. Steve Goodwin has managed more than 70 champions at various levels and promotes events at London&#8217;s York Hall. They cost around \u00a322,000 per show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Goodwin sees numerous reasons why it is becoming harder for small-hall boxing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The cost of living has impacted on ticket sales. Interest has been affected by changes in television rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;People are poorer, generally in life, I&#8217;m a financial adviser by trade and the average working man is poorer,&#8221; said Goodwin, who is based in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re definitely seeing a big negative on ticket sales, not only from boxers, but from what we can sell generally to the public.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Boxing has had less television exposure since Sky Sports stepped away from the sport after its deal with Boxxer expired. Goodwin worries Dazn&#8217;s viewing figures are not high enough: That new fans are not being enticed in numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sky Sports plans to return to the sport in 2026 with new promoters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I personally don&#8217;t care what the spin that&#8217;s put on by various people, boxing is not in a great place,&#8221; Goodwin said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If I sit here and talk boxing to people that are boxing fans, generally, friends, and they don&#8217;t know who the boxers are any more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;That can&#8217;t be good for boxing. If people don&#8217;t know the ones at the top, they&#8217;re less likely to be interested in small hall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/c0kdrd1zkmzo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the north of England, it costs Wood around \u00a315,000 to stage a good card. That is before a fighter is paid. Down south, it is more expensive. Steve Goodwin has managed more than 70 champions at various levels and promotes events at London&#8217;s York Hall. They cost around \u00a322,000 per show. Goodwin sees numerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37135,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37133\/revisions\/37135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}