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

[drablj]

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.

[BodyBagz]

Somewhere in between

[Pac=Duran]

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

[Lance98]

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.

[Atypicalbrit]

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.

[dan-b]

More to the casual end of the scale now.