Do you ever think about stopping watching boxing?

I know a lot of smokers that say "It's easy quitting smoking, I do it all the time!" not realizing what they just said lol Well I'm the same way with boxing. Seriously though, whenever there's a bad decision, I question why I bother watching the sport. I feel awful for the fighters who worked so hard for weeks at a time just to see their victory slip away due to something they can't control. These guys put in their blood, sweat, and tears into their camps and all that is thrown away whenever politics get involved. I really wish all the organizations and judges can get together and vote on a universal scoring system instead of everyone having their own way of scoring. I know it won't ever happen because the promoters won't get on board with it but I can dream!

. . . . It's all that I can watch now and be impressed by. The stakes are SO HIGH in any fight that I just can't take other sports seriously now. They look goofy playing with sticks, rackets, balls and the like. Just players playing a game. Boxing on the other hand, is NO GAME. I no longer have any real interest in football for the very same reason. There was a period of about 18 months, maybe 2 years, where I didn't watch any live or recent fights. I felt at the time that paying two men to strip down to their shorts and beat each other to a pulp on the provision that I can watch was not only perverse but smacked of moral cowardice. I couldn't ethically justify it. It wasn't a complete embargo though. I still watched and read about boxing. Before the days of widespread internet, Marshall Cavendish did a 'Boxers' video collection on VHS that I watched repeatedly. In retrospect it was a hiatus that gave me a good grounding in the history of the sport. The last time I felt like walking away was watching Abril-Rios but I'm in too deep to let flashes of frustration turn me away. Watching Bradley take a beat down gave cause for consideration. I've learnt now not to watch too many back-to-back FOTY type bouts, particularly one's involving Mexicans. It makes me feel jaded, like I've been forced to watch dog fighting. I can't see me ever turning away now. I can't justify boxing from a moral standpoint but last time a checked the number one cause of premature death for registered boxers (in the US) was gunshot wounds. Second was stab wounds. So boxing may be brutal but it's no where near as barbaric as what goes on on the other side of the ropes.

Not at all. It sounds a bit strong but I love violence/aggressiveness at a competitive level and I know these type of situations come with the territory. Boxing gets my adrenaline going and it is all because of how exciting it is and the possibility that anything can happen. It might sound a bit twisted but I'm just being honest. I am the kind of guy who would have loved to be around for the gladiator era and witness combats until one is taken out. I do not wish that in modern age but I am the type of guy who doesn't believe in stopping a fight until the other guy simply can't get up.

I watched very few bouts from 1991 to 2005, the competition for the leading fighters wasn't very good and other than Oscar loosing at the end of his career and Pacman moving along through the classes I found boxing to be uninteresting and void of outstanding characters. Pacman, and Mosley did have my interest but the Mayweathers and the "new look" Bernard Hopkins just bore me, same with the Klitz bros. I understand how they gained successes and give them all credit but for me they aren't exciting or bring huge efforts. Right now we're right back to having just a handfull of interesting characters to watch. Some have talents but are so childish and immature its difficult to support them. There is a reason that people over 50 years old cling to the past because there were men who acted like a man in boxing not yelling and screaming and insensitive morons. Since when did a boxing champion burn money and carry on like "hood rat" when they live in a mansion? Gets old and tiring after a while. Ray

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Do you mean stop watching a particular fight when the beating is very one sided or stop watch boxing altogether? Either way, I would carry on regardless. But I don't get any pleasure out of seeing someone getting an absolute hiding with the ref doing nothing about it.

I've never thought about not atching boxing.

yes. in addition, i know that there's something wrong with me for enjoying the hell out of watching men kill each other every weekend.

No, I've never thought about stopping watching boxing but in light of Magomed Abdusalamov's critical injury I'm not as excited about this month's up coming fights. I've been in a daze all week thinking about this and it really has taken the wind of out my sails. I'm indifferent to this week's fights. I might take some time off from watching boxing, or not, because I'm so saddened of what Abdusalamov is going through right now and if he'll make it or not.

Many times. I feel the guilt of seeing someone get knocked out in a spectacular fashion when it seriously effects the fighters life and health. I know that is a rare occurrence. The only other time I lose interest in the sport is when CJ Ross is allowed to judge, boring Molina fights and when Broners ugly face pops up. yet this is also one of the main reasons we follow the sport.

Many times. I feel the guilt of seeing someone get knocked out in a spectacular fashion when it seriously effects the fighters life and health. I know that is a rare occurrence. The only other time I lose interest in the sport is when CJ Ross is allowed to judge, boring Molina fights and when Broners ugly face pops up.

Yes, 2 times.......After Devon-Bailey and Molina-Ishe I also considered suicide :lol1: :lol1: Green K!

Obviously yeah at times but I think most of these situations can be avoided with better regulations.

Of course not. You cannot be a real fan of the sport if you think about that.

NO, I will never stop watching boxing. Yes, boxing has its bad days. Some ppl say boxing is dying or dead, I say B FKN S boxing is and has always been alive and well.

No I have not. I agree with a poster, I have been a boxing fan for so long and involved in boxing and muay thai for so many years that "regular" sports are just not exciting for me anymore. Baseball, football, basketball, etc....there is no comparison. It is also hilarious to me though how football players always talk about "going to war" and they are all ripped and huge and tough acting with all those pads and helmet on. Yet every time one of them steps in the ring they basically get owned lol. Perception is reality I guess. Boxing ruins you for almost every other sport, it did for me. I sit around and basketball or baseball or something is on and I go wow....how exciting lol. I begrudgingly include MMA, which I will watch if its free and nothing else is on. But I can only watch men roll around and grapple each other like 10 yr olds on the playground so much.

I know how you're feeling TS. It's rough hearing about or watching a fighter take a brutal beating or an instant KO and not recovering from it. I'm pretty sure in a more civilized world professional boxing would be flat out illegal. I mean it's hard to believe that ancient people watched gladiators fight to the death, but is pro boxing really that much better? That being said, personally, boxing has ruined me for other professional sports. It's all that I can watch now and be impressed by. The stakes are SO HIGH in any fight that I just can't take other sports seriously now. They look goofy playing with sticks, rackets, balls and the like. Just players playing a game. Boxing on the other hand, is NO GAME.

Yes, 2 times.......After Devon-Bailey and Molina-Ishe I also considered suicide

I have a few times. And every time it was after some bullsh*t decision. Posted from Boxingscene.com App for Android