Do you ever think about stopping watching boxing?

[Ray Corso]

I watched very few bouts from 1991 to 2005, the competition for the leading fighters wasn't very good and other than Oscar loosing at the end of his career and Pacman moving along through the classes I found boxing to be uninteresting and void of outstanding characters.

Pacman, and Mosley did have my interest but the Mayweathers and the "new look" Bernard Hopkins just bore me, same with the Klitz bros. I understand how they gained successes and give them all credit but for me they aren't exciting or bring huge efforts.
Right now we're right back to having just a handfull of interesting characters to watch. Some have talents but are so childish and immature its difficult to support them.
There is a reason that people over 50 years old cling to the past because there were men who acted like a man in boxing not yelling and screaming and insensitive morons. Since when did a boxing champion burn money and carry on like "hood rat" when they live in a mansion? Gets old and tiring after a while.
Ray

[The Problem Child]

Not at all. It sounds a bit strong but I love violence/aggressiveness at a competitive level and I know these type of situations come with the territory. Boxing gets my adrenaline going and it is all because of how exciting it is and the possibility that anything can happen. It might sound a bit twisted but I'm just being honest. I am the kind of guy who would have loved to be around for the gladiator era and witness combats until one is taken out. I do not wish that in modern age but I am the type of guy who doesn't believe in stopping a fight until the other guy simply can't get up.

[Spray_resistant]

For poor decisions when these guys work so hard yes but not for possibly near fatal injuries, this isn't tennis and these guys could die every time they fight you know this and so do the fighters.

[- Ram Raid -]

. . . . It's all that I can watch now and be impressed by. The stakes are SO HIGH in any fight that I just can't take other sports seriously now. They look goofy playing with sticks, rackets, balls and the like. Just players playing a game.

Boxing on the other hand, is NO GAME.

I no longer have any real interest in football for the very same reason.

There was a period of about 18 months, maybe 2 years, where I didn't watch any live or recent fights. I felt at the time that paying two men to strip down to their shorts and beat each other to a pulp on the provision that I can watch was not only perverse but smacked of moral cowardice. I couldn't ethically justify it.

It wasn't a complete embargo though. I still watched and read about boxing. Before the days of widespread internet, Marshall Cavendish did a 'Boxers' video collection on VHS that I watched repeatedly. In retrospect it was a hiatus that gave me a good grounding in the history of the sport.

The last time I felt like walking away was watching Abril-Rios but I'm in too deep to let flashes of frustration turn me away. Watching Bradley take a beat down gave cause for consideration. I've learnt now not to watch too many back-to-back FOTY type bouts, particularly one's involving Mexicans. It makes me feel jaded, like I've been forced to watch dog fighting.

I can't see me ever turning away now. I can't justify boxing from a moral standpoint but last time a checked the number one cause of premature death for registered boxers (in the US) was gunshot wounds. Second was stab wounds. So boxing may be brutal but it's no where near as barbaric as what goes on on the other side of the ropes.

[SnakeVen0m]

I know a lot of smokers that say "It's easy quitting smoking, I do it all the time!" not realizing what they just said lol Well I'm the same way with boxing.

Seriously though, whenever there's a bad decision, I question why I bother watching the sport. I feel awful for the fighters who worked so hard for weeks at a time just to see their victory slip away due to something they can't control.

These guys put in their blood, sweat, and tears into their camps and all that is thrown away whenever politics get involved. I really wish all the organizations and judges can get together and vote on a universal scoring system instead of everyone having their own way of scoring. I know it won't ever happen because the promoters won't get on board with it but I can dream!