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Eventually boxing will fade away or get extensive safety precautions like headgear and 16oz gloves brought in as in the amateurs. Combat sports in western society have always ebbed and flowed. The sport goes underground, it gets respectable, it gets forced underground again. Some countries in europe have, I believe, banned the sport and it might as well be banned in some states for the lack of fights that occur.
Right now, boxing is pretty weak - I don't think Johnson's death will knock it out, but if things continue - lack of participation at the grassroots level, lack of televised and club fights - it'll go down for the count, at least for a period of time.
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