How Has The Internet Changed YOU As A Boxing Fan?

[Bastian Loc]

It has made me more extreme and fanatical.

[Spray_resistant]

i remember USA hyping up Roy vs Toney...then that 'only ppv' tag became a part of every big fight

Roy is exactly who I am talking about when I talk about fighters who my view has changed on once I started searching online more.

I used to think he was one of the best ever because he was the only guy they would allow you to see on American TV, now........not so much.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

It has made me more extreme and fanatical.

i can tell

[Porter's Dad]

Turned me from a casual fan into a hardcore.

And the only reason I was casual was because of how incredibly inaccessible the sport had become for me.

British boxing post Eubank/Benn/Watson era went to Sky and Sky PPV, and the only way I could take in fights was to watch the recorded fights my brother would tape on his VCR (quite a bit later after the event) or listen to the big fights on the radio.

Wow, just thinking about the days of listening to Five Live and having to piece the fight together in my head.

It's kinda amazing to think we had to resort to the listening to fights on the radio (I still remember how sad I felt at hearing how my hero at the time, Eubank, was getting his ass kicked by Calzaghe, over a crackling signal)

Oh yeah, we used to get some big American fights on BBC on Sunday nights too during the late-90s.

But mostly, boxing was a sport completely deprived from me.

The internet has been a complete godsend to me. Without it, boxing would still be a sport I would find incredibly thrilling but had no way of following it properly. Which is still how it is for alot of people.

****ing sucks how the greedy c*cksuckers who run this sport took it away from the masses.

[Pullcounter]

the interwebs have allowed us more access to boxing than in the past, for instance the ability to watch overseas fights. it's the most important development in boxing since the ppv fight.

[Chups]

Big fan of Boxing in the 80's....somewhat died in the mid to late 90's. From Leonard to Tyson, Navarrette to Lucas (not a fan of Espinosa). Naseem Hamed made me look again at boxing.

UFC filled my interest in fighting during the 95-99 years.

[Sweet Jesus]

There is much more bad than good.

[Prince Boateng]

The worst thing about the internet is that people just come on fourms to spew their racist agendas.......

[Earl-Hickey]

fighters losing didn't used to seem so bad to me, now i know there will be an endless ******* of abuse and "hype jobs" slung at any fighter that loses.

[bojangles1987]

I rediscovered my love for the sport because of the internet. I can't afford all these PPVs, and there are so many fighters I don't get to see outside the U.S., so being able to go on the web and download these fights and rediscover classic fights has made me a bigger boxing fan than I had ever been.