Comments Thread For: How Did We Survive in a Pre-YouTube World?

[BoxingUpdates]

Which is the more vital tool for a 21st century boxing writer, BoxRec or YouTube? At first glance, that's a tough question to answer.
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[rudy]

Before YouTube made money selling Boxing Tapes HBO showtime and all shows from Europe and canal plus was great another boxing channel in France the good old days but when torrents came in 2000 changed the game forever and now IPTV

[JeBron Lamez]

If it wasn't for YouTube we would never have had...

...actually, never mind.

[BritJimbo]

YT is awesome! Every Sunday morning I smoke a fat cannon and watch boxing for free instead of paying 100.00 for ****ty cards.

Eric Raskin wrote a great article, but I love watching **** for free.

It made me happy to know that the promoters lost over 100 million on illegal streaming.

**** all the boxing writers who are nothing more than whores for promoters.

[BritJimbo]

The 100 million was referring to Usyk/*****.

[PittyPat]

Props BScene for another fascinating read!

[elfag]

well i started following in 1999

we had hbo and espn. i would record the fights on vhs. we didnt buy ppv's, watched the fights the week after and actually i would avoid looking up the results and it would be like watching it live, except sometimes i could tell from the replay length if it was going to go less than 12 rounds.

boxrec and the forums i pretty much always had growing up. initially we were on dial up, took some time until people started uploading fights online. there were clubs you could trade vhs or dvd's or buy dvds but i never got involved with those much.

[elfag]

Before YouTube made money selling Boxing Tapes HBO showtime and all shows from Europe and canal plus was great another boxing channel in France the good old days but when torrents came in 2000 changed the game forever and now IPTV

i remember having to install some kind of chinese iptv program to live stream fights for free. like 2005-2008 timeframe


the stream game now has been rock solid, for live streams. it used to be better though for downloads, people would put up 720p high def captures of the fights for download, that was great. it was even allowed here.

DAZN when i had it was nice for their backlog, i would watch old fights in HD on there but they raise their prices way too much and everything is PPV live on it now.

[SteveM]

If it wasn't for YouTube we would never have had... THE PAUL BROTHERS

...actually, never mind.

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[SteveM]

Borec is great for results but their rating system for fights and fightters is sketchy - for example 2 fighters with a 20-4 record might be both 3* fighters but the context and timing of fights and wins is critical and boxrec doesn't give u that -