Does boxing have more hater 'fans' than any other sport?

[PainfromUkraine]

^ as title, the hate of some fans levelled as 'criticism' to some fighters with no real justification gets pretty ******...

Can any other sport compare to the amount of haters we have in the 'community' of boxing enthusiasts?

Is anyone immune from hate? What is the criteria to keep everyone happy, all of the time (if this exists)?

Discuss

[Jloro]

Yeah. Kind of sad too since most of them have no reason to hate.

[Sugar Adam Ali]

In other sports, people have teams they root for,, in boxing there is no teams, just a bunch of individuals and so they is much more room for "hating"

[PainfromUkraine]

Yeah. Kind of sad too since most of them have no reason to hate.

Agreed.

In other sports, people have teams they root for,, in boxing there is no teams, just a bunch of individuals and so they is much more room for "hating"

Yep, good point.

[DLT]

yup and its a individual sport so its worst

[The Problem Child]

When you look at it, the biggest hater groups tend to be of the most successful fighters in the sport. That is another way of showing that they are indeed the greatest in the sport.

Golovkin, Pacquiao, Mayweather... < Top 3.

[BG_Knocc_Out]

Probably because it's a much more personalized sport.

Instead of an entire team, the focus is much more on the individual, and we begin to know the athlete on a much more personal level because of the individualization. And we do what all humans do; Judge. We'll either like the guy, are hate the guy.

[PainfromUkraine]

True, you are right that it's an individual sport so it's easier to criticise or judge, but compared to other individual sports boxing is the worst - you can win and get judged badly or just hated on, often you can even win impressively and this doesn't change! Just strange, could it be jealousy from some fans that boxers achieve what they could not and there is a sense of clinging on to any potential criticism? I think definitely this is the case in some quarters.

[Foreign Soil]

Boxing has the most racist/hater fans that's for sure.

[Slip Stream]

When you look at it, the biggest hater groups tend to be of the most successful fighters in the sport. That is another way of showing that they are indeed the greatest in the sport.

Golovkin, Pacquiao, Mayweather... < Top 3.

Sorry but Golovkin doesn't belong in the same universe as Mayweather and Pacquiao.