Boxing Has Never Been Less Relevant

The sweet science only lives on in fiction.

If you were to experience sports entirely through your popular entertainment, you would think the sport of boxing is thriving right now. Over the last year, we have seen:

A series about Mike Tyson starring Trevante Rhodes from Moonlight:

A movie about George Foreman:

Another Mark Wahlberg movie about a boxer:

And, of course, the upcoming Creed III, out this weekend, in which Michael B. Jordan, one of the biggest movie stars…