starting to lose massive interest in boxing....anyone else?

It is just the lil g and Canelo fans that feel let down. I am only disappointed in Canelo. lil g is who i thought he was. Besides those two HBO clowns this sport is look good so far.

Don't consider myself a boxing fan anymore. I'm a casual now, the sport is embarassing. Honestly, i enjoyed boxing more when i just had ring and ko subscriptions and just watched the fights...before going on forums with all the whining fans, trolls and back and forth bs between fan boys. It gets harder and harder to say I'm a boxing fan. We don't get nearly enough good fights to balance out the bullsh*t. The sport is a joke in so many ways and has been for a long time, but there is not enough good to distract from it anymore, and seemingly less good with every day. There is so little to get excited about anymore, and almost nothing with any real mainstream significance. I can't imagine ever stopping following boxing, but the sport is just awful. It's not even a sport now. Lost my love for it a few years back. I think 2012 when we were massively spoiled it just went to total sh*t after and I've not really been able to get really excited for any fight since. Last fight I was truly hyped for like a kid at Christmas was Donaire vs Rigo and it really delivered for me. I used to love studying upcoming fights, breaking them down, supporting underdogs, talking to casuals - convincing them to watch quality upcoming fights they normally wouldn't watch and all that good stuff these days most of the boxing news just flat out depresses me. I'm like a beaten housewife who just can't walk away. These pretty much encapsulate where I'm at with the sport. I've had periods before where my enthusiasm has wained but it seems somehow different now, like my emotional connection to the sport has entered its end game. In my last year at high school, Thursday afternoons were a double session of business studies. It was so tedious that midway through the year I decided that I wasn't putting myself through it any longer. I'd get my registration mark and walk out of the door, out of the building and over to the sports hall where I'd put on my P.E kit and join in with the class that was taking place there. On my way home I'd buy myself that weeks edition of the Marshall Cavendish 'Boxers' series, a magazine, usually on an old fighter with an accompanying VHS tape comprising his best fights. Sometimes I'd get my friends to steal it and I'd buy it from them at half the price with money left over for sweats. That's what got me through bullsh*t Thursdays and the knowledge that I'd been mis-sold a bullsh*t GCSE topic by a bullsh*t teacher in a bullsh*t school. A P.E session, Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Carlos Monzon and Carmen Basilio were my refuge from life's bullsh*t. Which at the time seemed like a deluge. That's no longer the case. Boxing now feels like it is the bullsh*t in my life. I don't watch the old fights anymore. My boxing books, untouched for maybe two years, are about to be boxed and moved into the loft. I watch less fights in a fortnight than I used to watch in a single night. A month can pass without me watching a bout. I'm still here, just, but the sport has started to feel like one long double session of business studies.

The matchmaking and politics hurts but I still get excited for the big fights.

Big time. Started with Mayweather's retirement for me. I watch boxing for the big fights and we don't see that much anymore. We've got maybe 3 this year. We need at least one per month to keep the interest going. We do have Crawford-Postol this month, but it's on PPV so I'll probably just stream it. I doubt any bars will be showing this fight in my area since both guys are unknown. Problem is Crawford-Postol is the kind of fight we need to pay for. The two best fighters in a division fighting each other in their primes is the kind of fight we need to support and make a success if we're going to see it more often. I agree that the names don't make a fight we should pay for, but if we don't, promoters and fighters won't see the point in making these fights.

I just miss fighters like Tyson, RJJ, HOLYFIELD, bowe, duran, hearns, leonard, hagler, prince naseem and his awesome showboating, lennox, briggs, delahoya, vargas, mayweather, pacquiao, hatton, etc. etc. Where are the fighters like these guys and the awesome action packed matchups???? That is the kind of boxing I want to see.

I've basically been bored with boxing since Round 12 of Chavez vs Martinez. Excitement peaked there, and it's been all downhill since then.

One fight doesn't make it right. It's like putting a band aid on a big open wound. If boxing is dying then Cruiserweight is the adrenaline shot.

Not at all. Watch Thurman vs. Porter then come back. Watch any Cruiserweight fight then come back. Thurman vs Porter is midget wrestling in comparison.

Definitely.... I read all the news ten times over watched all recent fights over again but it's just like....meh....but it's happened throughout history...just gotta be patient as many legendary fights will happen Legendary fights happen all the time. Just this year we've had: Huck vs Afolabi Breidis vs Durodola Dorticos vs Kalenga Bellew vs Makabu

boxing just isn't the same as the old days. anyone agree? The trouble with you is... you're not watching the Cruiserweight division.

Just like the wrestling need a young version of Vince McMahon , Eric Bishoff, Paul Haymon...Boxing need a young version Bob Arum & Don King I want to see another mike tyson!!! There has to be at least one of them out there in the world.

Just like the wrestling need a young version of Vince McMahon , Eric Bishoff, Paul Haymon...Boxing need a young version Bob Arum & Don King

Inactivity is killing boxing. Activity is rising mma!

I just miss fighters like Tyson, RJJ, HOLYFIELD, bowe, duran, hearns, leonard, hagler, prince naseem and his awesome showboating, lennox, briggs, delahoya, vargas, mayweather, pacquiao, hatton, etc. etc. Where are the fighters like these guys and the awesome action packed matchups???? That is the kind of boxing I want to see.

Lost my love for it a few years back. I think 2012 when we were massively spoiled it just went to total sh*t after and I've not really been able to get really excited for any fight since. Last fight I was truly hyped for like a kid at Christmas was Donaire vs Rigo and it really delivered for me. I used to love studying upcoming fights, breaking them down, supporting underdogs, talking to casuals - convincing them to watch quality upcoming fights they normally wouldn't watch and all that good stuff these days most of the boxing news just flat out depresses me. I'm like a beaten housewife who just can't walk away.

I've basically been bored with boxing since Round 12 of Chavez vs Martinez. Excitement peaked there, and it's been all downhill since then.

Jon Jones messed it up for me. I still like Tate and Lesner fight How could you not like the Aldo vs Edgar fight? You have to admit we the fans are also what's wrong with boxing. We pay for PPVs which most of the time only have 1 good fight on paper and it's the main event. We defend fights and shit on others for the same reason.

UFC 200 card is stacked!!! When was the last time we saw that in boxing? It's digging its own grave and it has no one to blame but itself. Jon Jones messed it up for me. I still like Tate and Lesner fight

UFC 200 card is stacked!!! When was the last time we saw that in boxing? It's digging its own grave and it has no one to blame but itself.

It gets harder and harder to say I'm a boxing fan. We don't get nearly enough good fights to balance out the bullsh*t. The sport is a joke in so many ways and has been for a long time, but there is not enough good to distract from it anymore, and seemingly less good with every day. There is so little to get excited about anymore, and almost nothing with any real mainstream significance. I can't imagine ever stopping following boxing, but the sport is just awful. It's not even a sport now.