Do you consider yourself a die hard boxing fan or casual?

Casual now There was about a 10 year period where I watched basically every televised card and would even get bootleg film of amateur tournaments. I just don't have the time to follow the sport like that anymore so I pretty much just watch the heavyweights and big title fights in other divisions.

Many clowns here are casuals who don't even know boxing and are emotional wrecks. They don't even respect the sport of boxing. Close fights are "robberies" to them when they guy the favour doesn't win. They are just male cheerleaders. As for me, I consider myself to be a boxing fan who is in-between casual and hardcore. I don't know every fighter, mostly know all the more famous ones, but also understand the sport enough to know why sometimes certain stuff happens that we may not like.

Back in the day I used to watch every fight no matter how late it was on. I'm def a casual now though lol

Somewhere in between

i consider myself a casual FAN (not the same as casual CITIZEN) but when i read what others wrote maybe i have to reconsider. we have a totally different scale. PLUS: i follow all 17 divisions for ~10 years almost every day (news, full fights, comments). i follow at least what top 10 in every division are doing. i watch live streams (there's basically no boxing on tv here. i have watched less than 20 fights on tv in my life) almost every week, undercard fights and main events. when i can't catch them live, i watch youtube/dailymotion/ok/somethingelse videos of full fights. i don't watch any of the pre-fight nonsense though. i have a bunch of old fights (from 19th century onwards) and i watch others on the internet for research. i have read about majority of elite boxers of the last 130 years and i have checked their records in detail (i can't memorize everything though since i'm a HARD(EST)core fan of several other things). i thought almost everybody here has done this but apparently people are too lazy. MINUS: i went to only one live event because that's the amount of boxing events in my region in the last 30 years. i am bellow casual in that category. MINUS: i don't follow or watch newbies (less than 10 fights) unless they are fast tracked contenders. if someone turns out to be that, i find their older fights on the internet and watch them for research. there are people here who know a lot more about new, young fighters or local scene (usa, uk, mexico, japan). i thought i am a casual fan but that would make 99,99% people here casual citizens, not even fans. from my experience with this forum, it seems there are like 20 guys here that research more than me (old and recent boxing). if i'm a casual that would make hardcores almost non-existent.

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I was very hardcore back in the day. You had so many channels airing fights frequently that you were able to follow a lot of fighters throughout their career either they won a title or not. Now there is not so much boxing like it used to be.

Outside of a few boxers, most boxers are unknown to casuals. If a self proclaimed casual knows who Naoya Inoue or Oleksandr Usyk are, i’m impressed. If they’ve seen fights of Frank Sanchez and Filip Hrgovic, and know who they are, I would see them as being above a casual. If they are “younger” fans and have seen fights from the 60s-90s, I would consider them hardcore because that means you have to go on youtube and go out of your way to look for these fights and sit there and watch them. That’s hardcore, even if they’re just watching the old big fights. That’s still hardcore. The younger gen is now sitting there watching tik tok and stuff. Casuals don’t just sit there searching for old fights to watch on youtube.

Considering the shape boxing is in now, knowing everyone on the televised undercard makes you a hardcore. If you're familiar with the entire undercard you're probably some type of degenerate with nothing better to do.

I like boxing. Isn’t that enough?

Used to keep up with it religiously. Im pretty casual now.

Since HBO went down , Im a casual

Serious casual :boxing::boxing:

I’ve been a boxing fan since Ali-Frazier II. I was just a kid. My attention to the sport has ebbed and flowed over the years, depending on various factors — mostly how great the competition was. I’m not a die-hard, but I’m far from casual. My casual friends used to rely on me for fight info. I’ve trained and sparred, and actually know how to score a fight. Never ceases to amaze me how many guys here, who don’t consider themselves casual, don’t know how to score a boxing match.

there isn't a single fight that is remotely interesting to me on tonight's undercard. this seems to be the norm these days but tonight's card is especially garbage. i read the headlines on the main page but i rarely click the articles anymore. the quality of journalism on here has really gone downhill since they got rid of hans themistode...believe it or not

Hard to define where I fit in. More interested in technical info, though a fan of a few guys... Strictly thinking from a fan perspective I'm probably a casual.

im probably somewhere in between

I wouldn’t say I’m super familiar with them all, but there’s only two fighters I dont recall seeing fight. The Diombe guy fighting Bek the Bully and the guy fighting Shamar Canal

I once heard someone say Bruce Lee was the greatest fighter of all time

11 fights, 22 fighters and I'm only familiar with 4 names; Haney, Garcia, Barbosa and Derevyanchenko and that's it. I used to believe that I was a die hard boxing fan since I'm a fan since 1990 (starting with Chavez-Taylor) and I haven't missed more than a handful of championship fights since then but this make wonder if I'm not. Let me hear from you...with how many names in this card are you familiar?​ Conpared to people on here, probably a casual, but im more knowledgeable than the real casual fans. You know the ones who say sh1t like, "Who would win, Tyson or Mayweather ?"