casual fans

Casual fans are in every sport. They're kinda better than some of the idiot know it all fans here on boxingscene.

You get casual fans in every sport. Whenever Wimbledon comes on, suddenly everyone's a tennis expert, ditto the ashes with cricket etc. Casual fans are the lifeblood of boxing, without them, the sport is dead. That hits the nail on the head, and this is a forum out of all places the one place where regardless of being a casual or a die hard fan people debate, disagree and agree. I hate the casuals sometimes but they do keep the sport alive, when the people actually controlling the sports are killing it.

Only when it's a mate going nuts cause it's not a slugfest

You get casual fans in every sport. Whenever Wimbledon comes on, suddenly everyone's a tennis expert, ditto the ashes with cricket etc. Casual fans are the lifeblood of boxing, without them, the sport is dead.

quick, without opening another window, tell me all about Jesse James Leija He fought a lot of big names like, Oscar, Mosley, Gatti, Ruelas, but I remember him best for his wars against the "professor". Nelson gave us allot if good fights to remember too btw ALLOT.

Casual fans seem to have more grip on the sport than a lot of boxing experts on here. Casuals dont try to over-analyze everything or try to be contrary just because. If you ask a casual if Pac could beat Maidana, you'd get a straight answer. On here, you'd have a 10 page thread about it. And then when the fight happens and Pac mops up Maidana, you get another 10 page thread with excuses

Some of us don't go to those sites. Show us some examples of "extremely irritating" fans. Well thats where ive saw them...

Without casual fans this sport wouldnt even be televised.

Its mainly people on twitter etc but it seems to be a trend Some of us don't go to those sites. Show us some examples of "extremely irritating" fans.

Casual fans may not know much about boxing but it's better to have more of them for the growth (or survival) of the sport. whhats far more irritating IMO is NSB posters who claim to be real boxing fans that don't know how to score a fight, say things like Jabs don't count, brag about not buying ppv's in favor of illegal streams, complain that every close fight is a robbery, discredit any win against the fighter they like and display a lack of knowledge about boxing history that "hardcore" fans in other sports don't have. well said. I don't expect casual fans to know all that much. People that take the time to read and post on boxing forums, you would assume are more "hardcore" fans than casual. Yet many of them prove time and time again that Roger Mayweather was right.

It's not that they're irritating, it's just that I hear the same nonsense over and over: "Isn't boxing dead?" "We need exciting fighters like Hagler or Hearns." "Boxing is never on TV anymore." "Where are all the exciting US heavyweights?" Oh, wait, there's some legitimacy to that last one. I live in Britain and theres frequent boxing on sky sports from matchroom and its fantastic quality 99.9% of the time but because you need to know boxing to have an idea of the person fighting most casuals assume its some low quality boxer

Show us some examples, thread links, etc. Its mainly people on twitter etc but it seems to be a trend

whhats far more irritating IMO is NSB posters who claim to be real boxing fans that don't know how to score a fight, say things like Jabs don't count, brag about not buying ppv's in favor of illegal streams, complain that every close fight is a robbery, discredit any win against the fighter they like and display a lack of knowledge about boxing history that "hardcore" fans in other sports don't have. I know exactly what you mean, fair enough having your favorite fighters but if you claim to be a hardocre fan at least score a fight from an unbiased view. A lot like the ruslan provodnikov fight vs algeri just because ruslan is an exciting fighter and likes to brawl people automatically think he won even though from an unbiased view algeri outboxed him and ruslan didnt cut off the ring well enough

Is it just me or are casual fans extremely irritating? I understand its good for the sport to have as many people watching as possible but its very annoying when people that know nothing about the sport suddenly become experts and they can identify every fault in a fighters performance (supposedly) Show us some examples, thread links, etc.

Is it just me or are casual fans extremely irritating? I understand its good for the sport to have as many people watching as possible but its very annoying when people that know nothing about the sport suddenly become experts and they can identify every fault in a fighters performance (supposedly) whhats far more irritating IMO is NSB posters who claim to be real boxing fans that don't know how to score a fight, say things like Jabs don't count, brag about not buying ppv's in favor of illegal streams, complain that every close fight is a robbery, discredit any win against the fighter they like and display a lack of knowledge about boxing history that "hardcore" fans in other sports don't have.

It's not that they're irritating, it's just that I hear the same nonsense over and over: "Isn't boxing dead?" "We need exciting fighters like Hagler or Hearns." "Boxing is never on TV anymore." "Where are all the exciting US heavyweights?" Oh, wait, there's some legitimacy to that last one.

Gimme a casual fan over a BoxRec fan any day. Here, here. Got cats on here choosing promotion companies, channels over the sport. Any boxing fan (or one that claims to be) that tells me they dont have Shotime really irks me. I got HBO & Shotime both strictly for boxing and cant express how pleased I have been with Shotime and the amount of matches/cards that they put on.

Gimme a casual fan over a BoxRec fan any day. Hahahaha have you seen their ranking system its terrible

Gimme a casual fan over a BoxRec fan any day.