Can you be a front-runner in boxing?

One thing about most other sports is that there seems to be a fair share of front-runners out there in terms of fans. You know the ones that I am talking about, the fake Yankees fans, or Red Sox fans, or Lakers fans, or Cowboys fans, just to name a few of the teams that have the greatest perpetrators. But I wonder if boxing fans are immune to this phenomenon, I mean-- nobody really follows a guy who has lost nine out of his last ten and few people jump off a fighters band wagon after just a loss or two. So it seems that in order for you to be a boxing fan there is something of an inherent bias towards guys who win, otherwise nobody would be watching them. So what do you guys think, can you be a 'front-runner' and a boxing fan?