A part of me is dieing.

[AREALFIGHTER]

Lightweight-
Corrales
Castillo
Morales
Barrera
Pacman
Barrios
Raheem

Welterweight-
Cotto
Mayweather
Hatton
Margarito
Zab Judah
Tyszu
Shane Mosley
Collazo

ect

I like it fewer champs better match ups

[AREALFIGHTER]

I'm not a sporting fan at all aside from boxing. I didn't even watch the Superbowl. To be honest, I couldn't name a single active football player besides Tom Brady (because he is such a huge name and has transcended his sport). Boxing is the only sport I care about, with the sole exception of MMA to a much, much lesser degree.

In fact, boxing and punk music (which is already dead) are the only things I'm really passionate about anymore. Boxing for me comes before girls, school, friends, food, anything. I'll defend that sport for as long as I can reason because it's something I've found that I connect with at a primal level.

Boxing grabs me, forces me to love it, because it's real. Boxing is competition stripped down to the barest essentials: gloves, wraps, a ring, and a referee to enforce rules (to save it from barbarism). In contrast, all the team and ball sports seem contrived, phony. More than that though, boxing is a theatre of life. I'd venture to say that boxing is more real than modern life itself. It's far closer to nature at least than contemporary western society, where the weak and pampered rule over the strong-backed, honest working class.

Boxing is one of the last surviving truths I encounter on a daily basis, and it remains that way in spite of all of the corruption and lies that have become an inherent part of it. Watching boxing reminds me of the natural way of this place, the human condition, and the animal in us that we can only turn our backs on but never leave more than a few steps behind.

Hey, I know how you all feel. I've gotten the same looks when I've asked people if they follow the sport. It's a joke to them. A barbaric, idiotic sport.

The loss of boxing would have hardly any effect on the lives on my friends save for one thing: the day boxing dies is the day I kiss it all goodbye and end my time in this world.

son what you just said is exactly what this post is about the Culture of Boxing and what it means to people great post

[Papa Ace]

geez i didnt imagine there are still posters here who could have here prolly met pancho villa in real life!! lmao!! arealfighter, props to ya pops!

[Piggu]

Boxing is the best sport!!!! So deep, so entertaining to watch, and the boxers are just insane and deserve MUCH respect fo what they do. The ****in b-ball playes, baseball playas earnin millions doin eazy shyt. I do what they do when I was a lil boi. UNDESERVING turds!

I know! Then they complain about how they injured their arm swinging at a baseball, or hurt their knees sliding to base. Boxers don't make nearly as much as those guys, but they continue through broken hands, busted jaws, and every other obstacle they have to face. Baseball players don't have to get punched in the face 200 times a night. They don't have angry fans boo at them and throw beer bottles when they win a fight. Look at the cut Vitali Klitschko had in his fight with Lennox Lewis. If a baseball player got injured like that he would sue or demand an extra $20 million.