A part of me is dieing.

[Darkstar]

I agree boxing is dieing but its nothing new to me....
I almost like boxing not being mainstream. Every idiot in the world thinks they know everything about the NFL. Boxing is different in many ways thats why i like it so much. Their is something special about fights only being on HBO and SHOWTIME. U alomost feel boxing is for a select few.

[AREALFIGHTER]

I agree boxing is dieing but its nothing new to me....
I almost like boxing not being mainstream. Every idiot in the world thinks they know everything about the NFL. Boxing is different in many ways thats why i like it so much. Their is something special about fights only being on HBO and SHOWTIME. U alomost feel boxing is for a select few.

How does it speak to you, how does it make you feel. My questions and my statements may sound kinda sissy but man I was really serious about this post and I want input from followers of boxing as i said I am writing my masters thesis and who knows yours or sombodys words may be published in it

[AREALFIGHTER]

I look to the future and know fear. I see boxing maybe not being there in the not to distant future. This sport hase been my life for years sinse I was small to me this sport is real its not a game and not just for our intertainment

[Darkstar]

The sport of hand to hand combat will NEVER die....
Its been around from the start of time.
Boxing will always be around and someday it might go mainstream and back then mainstream again.
All that doesnt really bother me. I know i like boxing and i dont need other people to make sure its cool. I have much respect for boxers, i think their the truth.

[AREALFIGHTER]

The sport of hand to hand combat will NEVER die....
Its been around from the start of time.
Boxing will always be around and someday it might go mainstream and back then mainstream again.
All that doesnt really bother me. I know i like boxing and i dont need other people to make sure its cool. I have much respect for boxers, i think their the truth.

Ya I know but I can't help but realize what it used to be how it used to make people belive

[Darkstar]

yeah i get where ur coming from. But i think those days are over. Just like the golden days of baseball, it will never be the same

[AREALFIGHTER]

yeah i get where ur coming from. But i think those days are over. Just like the golden days of baseball, it will never be the same

ya but don't you wish you could fight and bring it back to what it used to be and your right about baseball by the way but like I said before people like to watch baseball and loved their teams but it was nothing compared to boxing as far as shaping culture because in what other sport can someone go to a commison say I want to fight be able to at least take ONE punch and be in the profesional ranks now that may sound bad but you know what how many men who have worked ****ty jobs go in every couple months fight come out with some cash and feed there kids. Its the only sport that the working class can relate to becacause most fighters are working class they just happen to fight as well. what other athletes in almost anysport reliy on a paycheck that comes form outside said sport.

[wmute]

i ll tell you this:

I always liked dangerous sports (as in the ones where you can die or be seriously and permanently injured) like boxing and motor racing:
I like the beauty of a gesture that's on the edge between life and death and yet it looks like the stroke of paintbrush on the canvas. I like the idea of a medieval knight fighting against a dragon, when it looks like there is almost no reason except that someone has to write it and tell everyone how beautiful, how inspiring it was and how much courage it took to do it.

I am not a believer and I am never going to be one but it came a time in my life in which I realized I had to work hard to get my life in my own hands and be my own man: I realized what sacrifice meant, and I went farther than the aesthetics of danger.
From that moment on I understood boxing and I will never forget the lesson in it.

[Easy-E]

i agree man. i go to university of new hampshire, and i cant find a single person who can name me a current boxer. hell, im usually hard pressed to find someone who knows a name other than ali or tyson.

its hard here as well, no one seems to be a boxing fan. i would like to pitch in with a couple guys and buy some live ppvs but no one gives two ****s. i am trying to get some of my friends into it by showing them ali and roy jones fights tho

[g00dz]

I have friends that wont take the time to watch a fight unless its a mike tyson knock out... these ****ing bums dont do **** all day but smoke pot..i really need to make some new boxing friends lol