Is it crazy that I only watch Heavyweight boxing?

Someone posted this in another thread. But I think it applies very well to this one. https://youtu.be/QOwr0pRs_oQ?feature=shared

Yes considering the division is pretty much trash

Nah, not crazy at all. Whatever floats your boat. I quite often look at welterweights and remind myself that they're basically little people. It's why Floyd Mayweather will never get on my nerves - he can buy a whole wardrobe at baby gap, and that's funny.

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Yeah, you're crazy. Most of the great fighters are not heavyweights. :boxing: I can't imagine missing out on Crawford, Inoue, Shakur, etc. . . You most define are el gran shatan these chicks you post pix of are body shots to me on old man You are the devil

Makes a lot of sense, to be a boxing fan and not want to watch a single good boxing match. Define "good" though. Good in this context is guys who are light years away from what could objectively be defined as the best in the sport. Because that competition happens in the open division. Now personally I enjoy good matchups at practically any weight class (it gets a bit ridiculous down at the very lightest classifications), but I can well understand someone only wanting to watch people compete to be the best in the sport. Every sport has a top division that draws most of the interest.

Makes a lot of sense, to be a boxing fan and not want to watch a single good boxing match. :lol1:

Norak It is the only division that really interests me. I don't really care about fighters moving up and down weight classes of 7 pounds each. I love the higher chances of knockout at Heavyweight. Heavyweight Champion of the World is the top dog in the sport. I just find it more entertaining for some reason. The young talent Zokirov make his debut this month. He is only 20 years old. He is a 6'7" hulk and world jr amateur champion. He obviously need to work on things but he has sparred with pros and impressed them . He is skipping the Olympics. He is from Uzbekistan a current hotbed of young heavyweight talent.

I love the heavies but you do routinely see some terrible fights. When they get sloppy and gas because why wouldn't they? They are massive. With heavies getting even bigger there is always going to be a trade off in skill and even athleticism. Fury always jokes that he's as fat as a pig but can still fight. In reality Fury has put more than his 10,000 hours in. He's too skillful for most maybe all heavies. He steals rests and is relaxed and unlikely to blow up in a fight.

It is not crazy, but you are leaving out 90% of the sport. Heavyweights don`t like to fight tell me hoy many fights did Wilder of Fury have this year? Heavyweights are all talk, no action.

I watch all weight classes. You get different things in terms of skill level, speed and the punches they can absorb. But I kind of get the OP's view. There aren't many sports where divisions get created and yet we rate the lower divisions just as highly (or for some people even more highly). Could you imagine the Olympics 100 metres for guys who just don't have the physique to run that fast? That's pretty much what we do on boxing. Weight divisions aren't dissimilar to gender divisions or even Paralympic divisions. They're designed to give lesser fighters a chance to be celebrated. That's why P4P is a farce. Celebrate these guys by all means but don't tell me winning in a few divisions a few pounds apart is a greater achievement than being the best heavyweight. It just isn't.

I only watch good match ups.

If that’s what floats your boat, why not. I dont watch the HW division because there isnt much sweet science involved. I dont watch Boxing for KOs.

More sad than crazy.

Everyone has something that got them into boxing and keeps them interested in it. I don’t see anything wrong with that. Personally I just want to see a good fight which is why i’m open to all weight classes, women, MMA. I just want to be entertained.

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You like what you like. Yeah nothing beats a top HW matchup, but those are rare, most HWs match ups are slow and full of hugging, but the potential of a KO is high. The lighter weights have far more skills and excitement. Someone mentioned they only follow women's boxing, understandable if you're a woman yourself, but women's boxing lacks both skills and KOs, but again you like what you like lol

My grandpa and his buddies only watch heavyweight fights. They're forced to watch anything available in any division because the heavyweight is dead in America.

Not much sweet science going on at heavyweight, and very little action. They fight way more rarely, make big fights infrequently, have lower activity in ring, and generally lower skill level. Not much of a boxing fan if you can't appreciate great fights like Chocolatito v Estrada 1&2, IMO, but everyone chooses what they like.

Not crazy at all, its a preference. Smaller guys make their bodies react better = Better masters of the art. But eliminate weight divisions and we'd all be watching heavyweights.