why do you guys even like boxing/boxers

[KidDinamita]

Used to follow it much much more before, but now literally there is no one very interesting to watch, big fights are never happening, and there is basically no big names around to make it even a bit interesting.

[Silence]

not even close.

soccer fans are so bad they've made multiple movies about how bad soccer hooligans are.

Shut up. Boxing is worse and I am in both sports' fan base groups in social media and even in real life. I am not American bum ain't relevant with soccer (I hate that term it's football).

Boxing > MMA > Soccer

[tomhawq]

Talk of marinating fights has become a huge joke now. Spence/Crawford is a shining example. It even got devalued. They couldn't even offer any guarantee money for both fighters. It's hilarious.

There's virtually nothing to marinate. Most fighters are virtual unknown. They hid behind their promoters and they don't fight often. We're talking years before big fights get made.

[War Room]

It's an awful sport for reals.

Why are you even here?

[ELPacman]

I find, you can enjoy boxing more the less you're on a forum. On a forum, boxing turns into a pissing game with everyone and their younger brother joining in to trash "X" boxer. There is literally no equally beloved fighter as someone else is there to call him overrated/trash/bum. A fighter is only as good as his last fight, so despite him having an amazing career in his prime, if he turned 45, took a brutal L, that sums up his entire career. Boxing probably has the worst fans of any sport, lol. Forget even talking about the racism as well, lol.

[Nash out]

The only thing that has ever compared to an elite boxing fight, just like the one we saw last week between **** Everything Zhang and the Juggernaut, and coming this week between Purse Davis and King Ry, were the fiercely competitive and real bouts between Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Texas Rattlesnake and the Rock for the WWF Championship. Nash out

[BOJACK]

It's an awful sport that doesn't have any form of continuity. Big wins don't even lead to anything. It's an individual sport where boxers on top ignore each other and fight their own individual showcase fights. It's bad enough that they hide under their promoter's skirt, it's even worse when fighters in the same house won't fight each other.

You just have to accept as it is. Let them cherrypick fights and hope for upsets. Cherrypick gone wrong types are exhilarating to watch. Showcase fighter only has to struggle like he's fighting Mike Tyson. That's satisfying to watch. That's why I don't object too much when they cherrypick fights. Nothing fans can do about it, anyways.

The sport is way better now; I think all the top guys are fighting eachother now.

[maguirre]

The sport is way better now; I think all the top guys are fighting eachother now.

Doesn't matter to me now. I want to see upsets, the cherrypick gone wrong types.

[DeLorean]

boxing is a niche sport in america. i think swimming might be bigger. UK boxing is a different story because the fans on that side love n support their fighters no matter what.

[TintaBoricua]

Even when I started watching which is exactly 20 years ago, it was still a great sport. It had many of the problems we have now, but they slowly went full ****** over the next two decades.

The worst thing that happened is that stars stopped fighting eachother frequently, and that star power no longer overlapped to the next generations.

I was never anti-Mayweather like so many and I really hate to say it, but him ducking Pacquiao for half a decade untill they were both past it, and dedicating his career to protecting his 0, really set a bad precedent.

The generation after him really took notice for the worst and it's not surprising, look at where it got Floyd? This sport is ****ed.

I admittedly always rooted for Floyd because the guy always stuck to his guns criticism be damned. In the long run he proved everyone wrong by beating all his opponents and making much much more fighting Pacquiao in 2015 than he otherwise would’ve gotten fighting him in 2010-2011 (the year before Pacquiao took two back to back losses and Floyd got arrested for domestic violence).

Unfortunately, some (a lot) young fighters today (maybe like Shakur/Haney/Tank) or their handlers worry exorbitantly about the zero as a byproduct of Mayweather’s success. It was unfortunately a proof of concept yet they overlook all the hard work, incredulous self-belief, and vision of self-promotion to grow a brand (either through fandom or infamy). Floyd wisely embraced the heel and it paid off. Props to him, a single loss would’ve cut his PPV sales by more than 50%, I’m sure of it. He didn’t have the most entertaining style, people just tuned in to see if anyone was going to shut him up. Nobody ever did. But Floyd was always on point on fight night and a dog when pushed.

I can’t say the same for any of these fighters except maybe a handful. Maybe Tank a little, but he doesn’t have anywhere near the other traits Mayweather had in buying out his contract, making up 24/7, and understanding promotion without it devolving into “hood” mentality (like Adrien “I did this for the hood!” Broner).

On topic: I like boxing because I think, and this is only my opinion, when you take any sport at its most exciting peak, boxing triumphs above everything…even MMA.

Boxing is brutal, sustained, dangerous and you can be ahead 11 rounds to 0 and then have your lights turned out in an instant. Larry Merchant described it perfectly: “Theater of the Unexpected.”

I started in late 2006/early 2007. Cotto was my guy. And from there on I kept following welterweight and it just snowballed from there. I also enjoyed watching Tim Bradley coming up and felt bad how the public trashed him after the first Pacquiao win. There are also a lot of subconscious nostalgic ties to events. I remember watching Khan/Maidana with my father in law, Cotto-Margarito 1 and 2 with my dad and friends and family, Kelly Pavlik’s comeback vs. Jermaine Taylor, the first Bute-Andrade fight, Hatton sparked out by Pacquiao, watching Floyd/Maidana 1 and thinking Floyd had finally bit off more than he could chew.

I could go on. But this is genuinely one of the few things that get me fired up in life. I love looking forward to a great night of boxing. To me, it’s honest to God lthe same feeling as waking up as a kid on Christmas morning.