What's wrong with boxing fans today ?

Yeah but do you actually go to see your favorite fighter and support them? I seriously doubt it which makes you a semi fan. You probably dont even own their clothing or merchandise. At least buy a poster. Only then will your opinion count. Yes. I do. I went to see nearly every Marquez fight from 2006 (I’m 33 so I couldn’t go to as much before) until his retirement and I go to nearly all of Lomachenko’s fights and I go to a lot of Crawford’s fights too. Travelled a lot and covered a lot of miles. Not just those three too I’ve gone to fights in Mexico, Puerto Rico, England, Wales, New York, Texas, Vegas and all over LA and the desert. Trinidad, Calzaghe, Rafa Marquez were three of my favorites and saw them all multiple times. Seen Estrada a grip of times, Chocolatito too. You don’t believe me so let’s bet. Money or loser leaves the site? Name your price. I’ve got photos and posters here too can vouch. Let me know. I used to get memorabilia too and have a lot of signed gear but I don’t get memorabilia anymore or feel the need to buy clothing to “support” them. That just sounds likes someone who doesn’t go to the fights so buys a bunch of shirts and hats to act like a fan.

Too much politikin Deontay Wilder’s planned May 18 heavyweight title defense against Dominic Breazeale is pegged for Showtime PPV. Top Rank offered Wilder $12.5 million, and PBC had to contend with the eight-figure payday, necessitating PPV — Mike Coppinger (@MikeCoppinger) Boxing’s as messed up as any boxers fan base. Still despise fanboys though.

The internet. Gotta agree with this. Anonymity brings stupidity. Secondly, bad or corrupt judging.

I think more fans are fans of boxers than boxing. Their fascination and idolization of their favorites also forces hatred’s. Most don’t care about the sport or the fights. They are more into what other fighters fans think and who’s ducking who and not who’s fighting who because they are never happen with any fighter unless it’s their god. Funny thing is their fighter is always ducked and everything in their favor is fair whereas guys they hate are always ducking and always cheating and never win close fights or fights than go the distance. If this board is a representation of what the majority is like the sport is going to fade further away. They are more interested in what their mancrush makes than the sport or how poor their hated fighters are. They make Michael Jackson fans look reasonable and not obsessive. Yeah but do you actually go to see your favorite fighter and support them? I seriously doubt it which makes you a semi fan. You probably dont even own their clothing or merchandise. At least buy a poster. Only then will your opinion count.

I think more fans are fans of boxers than boxing. Their fascination and idolization of their favorites also forces hatred’s. Most don’t care about the sport or the fights. They are more into what other fighters fans think and who’s ducking who and not who’s fighting who because they are never happen with any fighter unless it’s their god. Funny thing is their fighter is always ducked and everything in their favor is fair whereas guys they hate are always ducking and always cheating and never win close fights or fights than go the distance. If this board is a representation of what the majority is like the sport is going to fade further away. They are more interested in what their mancrush makes than the sport or how poor their hated fighters are. They make Michael Jackson fans look reasonable and not obsessive. It's good to know that there is a solid core of real boxing fans here.

The internet.

I think more fans are fans of boxers than boxing. Their fascination and idolization of their favorites also forces hatred’s. Most don’t care about the sport or the fights. They are more into what other fighters fans think and who’s ducking who and not who’s fighting who because they are never happen with any fighter unless it’s their god. Funny thing is their fighter is always ducked and everything in their favor is fair whereas guys they hate are always ducking and always cheating and never win close fights or fights than go the distance. If this board is a representation of what the majority is like the sport is going to fade further away. They are more interested in what their mancrush makes than the sport or how poor their hated fighters are. They make Michael Jackson fans look reasonable and not obsessive.

Fans haven't changed one bit. Still biased. Still salty. Still overzealous. Blame the internet and social media for giving fools a voice.

Fukers can't take a loss. PUZZY generation.

It’s the message board/social media era. First thing that came to my mind. There is a real toxic element to being able to talk trash while remaining, for all practical purposes, anonymous.

Not at the level it is now. Not even close. Not even when Ali and Frazier had a rivalry . Did Ali's fans boycott Frazier's fights and talk sh8 about him like Wilder-AJ now ? Not even close . Missed Ray's post so I'm agreeing with you. Fans are different today, a lot of them are fickle hero worshippers rather than real boxing fans. They could be talking about any sport or contest most of the time.

A lot of people on here are buzz killers. Come here to discuss your favourite fighter and someone always has to chime in, "He was ****". Totally unnecessary. Golovkin lost once....that's it "HES BEEN EXPOSED"....shut the **** up.

This has been happening since days one. You have haters/lovers/critics/defenders of every single boxers. Its nothing new. Not at the level it is now. Not even close. Not even when Ali and Frazier had a rivalry . Did Ali's fans boycott Frazier's fights and talk sh8 about him like Wilder-AJ now ? Not even close .

Agree with all the preceding posts, the social media attitude has certainly had a big negative impact.

This has been happening since days one. You have haters/lovers/critics/defenders of every single boxers. Its nothing new.

Agree with Eff Pandas, the business has changed and boxing fans are, in part, a product of the current state of boxing. Not the only reason but the main one I believe. I could write an essay on how and why boxing is so messed up, which would probably help understand why fans have become so twisted. In short: 1. Boxing power players and ego’s Boxing is dominated by 3 main promoters who are each backed by a different tv network. Each of these 3 look our for themselves and are trying to bury the competition, attempting to keep fights ‘in house’ and shutting the others out (e.g Haymon will, like the others do, shut Crawford out, so we WON’T be getting Spence/Crawford anytime soon). No unity between the 3 big players creates conflict of programming and the ego’s of the powerful men in charge hinders fights from happening, allowing fans to only speculate as argue on potential fights and ultimately pick a side. WBSS didn’t get a network in US (has now with dazn) and I bet that was because of politics from the power players. 2. Four, soon to be Five (with boxing scenes help) sanctioning bodies. There are 17 different weight divisions, which means potentially 68 fighters calling themselves world champion at the same time. This leads to fans picking their favourite fighter and rubbishing the others. There are too many stories of malpractice and corruption to fit in a single book. From ranking dead people, to covering up failed PED’s test, to sanctioning and enforcing dangerous mismatches and making it almost impossible to become and maintain undisputed champion. No fan benefits from this. Even shorter: 3. The best DON’T fight the best, nor even fight often enough so fans are constantly left wanting and waiting. 4. A disunited and fragmented sport does not attract sponsors, maximise network dollars or appeal to any type of sports fan. Boxing fans constantly have to pay high premiums to see decent fight, which never turn out to be the exciting, entertaining wars of the past. If Crawford/Spence got made, it wouldn’t be on espn, espn +, it would be on espn ppv. Boxing fans are a small portion of sports fans in total, yet they take ridiculous amount of our money, allowing people like Floyd to become the highest paid athlete on the planet. I’m not asking guys to fight for nothing but paying $100 for a single fight at 39 yrs old with a garbage undercard is ridiculous. In conclusion: Yes, boxing fans are turning in fanboys and fangirls but we have to look at the state of play of the sport they are following. I find myself picking the side of Wilder in the AJ/Wilder online argument... but I don’t really like Wilder as a boxer, he’s awful. I don’t mind AJ. It’s obvious that Wilder and Joshua both aren’t afraid of each other and want the fight but it’s Hearn and Finkels EGO’S stopping the fight from happening... All of us are arguing over Wilder/Joshua because of Hearn and Finkels EGO’S...let that sink in.

It’s the message board/social media era.

I've talked about this over n over, but I feel fans changed when boxing changed. The big fights used to happen more often in timely fashion outside of outlier situations. Nowadays the big fights happrn less frequently so there are always less compelling fights when the schedule is filled with -500 to -2000 betting favorites. So fans talk about new sh^t these days & that means some fans talk more biased sh^t about the guys they see as ducks or aren't fighting their biggest rivals quick enough. And that leads to others being fanboys the opposite way in defense. So fans just didn't decide to change. The were changed due to the sport changing. And likely the fans who didn't change with the sport went elsewhere or don't find boxing nearly as interesting as they used to largely I'd bet. That’s it. Unlike other sports, boxing has no system for determining who’s the best. Fighters avoid each other. Fans talk crap because in actuality there’s nothing else to do. Joshua isn’t going to fight Wilder (or vice versa.) Spence, Crawford, Thurman. Gosh ain’t they all so talented though? Yeah, but they don’t fight each other. Didn’t used to be that way.

The irony is a lot of the haters/nut huggers of today still revere the greats of the past...even though they’d probably have trashed 90% of them if they were fighting now.

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