casual fans

[The Stick]

Is it just me or are casual fans extremely irritating? I understand its good for the sport to have as many people watching as possible but its very annoying when people that know nothing about the sport suddenly become experts and they can identify every fault in a fighters performance (supposedly)

[RlCKY]

Gimme a casual fan over a BoxRec fan any day.

[The Stick]

Gimme a casual fan over a BoxRec fan any day.

Hahahaha have you seen their ranking system its terrible

[smoothsmg]

Gimme a casual fan over a BoxRec fan any day.

Here, here. Got cats on here choosing promotion companies, channels over the sport. Any boxing fan (or one that claims to be) that tells me they dont have Shotime really irks me. I got HBO & Shotime both strictly for boxing and cant express how pleased I have been with Shotime and the amount of matches/cards that they put on.

[Glass-Joe]

It's not that they're irritating, it's just that I hear the same nonsense over and over: "Isn't boxing dead?" "We need exciting fighters like Hagler or Hearns." "Boxing is never on TV anymore." "Where are all the exciting US heavyweights?"

Oh, wait, there's some legitimacy to that last one.

[The Big Dunn]

Is it just me or are casual fans extremely irritating? I understand its good for the sport to have as many people watching as possible but its very annoying when people that know nothing about the sport suddenly become experts and they can identify every fault in a fighters performance (supposedly)

whhats far more irritating IMO is NSB posters who claim to be real boxing fans that don't know how to score a fight, say things like Jabs don't count, brag about not buying ppv's in favor of illegal streams, complain that every close fight is a robbery, discredit any win against the fighter they like and display a lack of knowledge about boxing history that "hardcore" fans in other sports don't have.

[brettWall]

Is it just me or are casual fans extremely irritating? I understand its good for the sport to have as many people watching as possible but its very annoying when people that know nothing about the sport suddenly become experts and they can identify every fault in a fighters performance (supposedly)

Show us some examples, thread links, etc.

[The Stick]

whhats far more irritating IMO is NSB posters who claim to be real boxing fans that don't know how to score a fight, say things like Jabs don't count, brag about not buying ppv's in favor of illegal streams, complain that every close fight is a robbery, discredit any win against the fighter they like and display a lack of knowledge about boxing history that "hardcore" fans in other sports don't have.

I know exactly what you mean, fair enough having your favorite fighters but if you claim to be a hardocre fan at least score a fight from an unbiased view. A lot like the ruslan provodnikov fight vs algeri just because ruslan is an exciting fighter and likes to brawl people automatically think he won even though from an unbiased view algeri outboxed him and ruslan didnt cut off the ring well enough

[The Stick]

Show us some examples, thread links, etc.

Its mainly people on twitter etc but it seems to be a trend

[The Stick]

It's not that they're irritating, it's just that I hear the same nonsense over and over: "Isn't boxing dead?" "We need exciting fighters like Hagler or Hearns." "Boxing is never on TV anymore." "Where are all the exciting US heavyweights?"

Oh, wait, there's some legitimacy to that last one.

I live in Britain and theres frequent boxing on sky sports from matchroom and its fantastic quality 99.9% of the time but because you need to know boxing to have an idea of the person fighting most casuals assume its some low quality boxer