Why do some "boxing fans" shame you for liking exciting fighters?

[Oxn]

Like as if we aren't real fans because we want some excitement in our fights?

Are we not fans if we dont want to watch a pitty pat match for 12 rounds?

[ShoulderRoll]

It's not that. If you shit on the opponents that the fighters other people like face....then you are expected to use those same standards for the fighters that you like.

If you don't, and you apply double standards, then it makes you look biased or like a hypocrite.

[Dr Rumack]

Like as if we aren't real fans because we want some excitement in our fights?

Are we not fans if we dont want to watch a pitty pat match for 12 rounds?

1. The biggest American fighter in the sport is not an exciting fighter.

2. Of all the new fans of the sport, a very large number of them will naturally support the biggest star they're aware of.

3. They will think his style is the best style.

4. They will not have watched enough boxing to have any perspective on the range of styles in the sport.


That's the main reason. A huge number of people spend more time typing angry comments about boxing than actually watching it. Especially fights from the 70s, 80s, and early 90s. There are guys who spend 8 hours a day on this forum who think Cornelius Boza Edwards is a type of vegetable.

[The Big Dunn]

I personally don't mind exciting fighters. I just think the term should be earned from what you do against quality opposition.

Is it really exciting when a fighter gets a KO over 2nd and 3rd tier level opponent that only got the fight because they posed no threat?

Since when did the sport become about that?

[////]

Nobody really likes watching boring fighters in the ring but some sports fans get really caught up in the marketing/cult of personality "fluff" once an athlete gets big enough financially.

You never see Floyd fans say "Wow man last night as a hell of a fight!". You see them say "OK, the fight was boring, I can admit that, but Floyd has very expensive shoes. I don't see you wearing expensive shoes."

In other occasions they're just obligated to pretend they like a boring fighter because of shared nationality.

[Public_Enemy]

I enjoy the sport. Mayweather, Pacquiao, Rigo, Golovkin, Ward, Provodnikov, Roman Gonzalez etc. Each fighter has someting to offer.

I never expected so much bickering and b*tching when I signed up for this site.

[Porter's Dad]

This is the era of Mayweather, where defence is fetishised and considered high-art, while offence is considered low-brow and ******. The same people who give Floyd a pass for being offensively mediocre will mercilessly pick holes in Golovkin's defence.

Seriously, how many heavy-pressure fighters in history had a brilliant defence? Duran. Early Tyson? It's quite simply the trade-off you make.

Abel Sanchez consciously altered GGG's style to get him to be more offensive. Think about how he fought against Ouma and how he has fought since. He's better suited to this seek-and-destroy style than the boxer-puncher he was before Sanchez.

The great thing about the retirement of Mayweather is that maybe the balance in perception towards offence and defence can shift back the other way. I'm not talking about mindless brawling wars, I'm talking about appreciating the high-skill involved in what people like GGG and Kovalev do.

[OnePunch]

Thats easy. Its because like "hipsters", they think that pretending to like something that few others do somehow makes them more hip or more evolved than the average fan.

Its like, "oh hey everyone, look how smart I am that I enjoy watching Rigo run away for 36 minutes. Im so smart, and the neanderthals dont get it"

[HEND]

Like as if we aren't real fans because we want some excitement in our fights?

Are we not fans if we dont want to watch a pitty pat match for 12 rounds?

Better question is why the fans Mayweather, Ward or other slick fighters got openly offended by fans of "exciting fighters"? I see that a lot more.
I can respect if someone is a sucker for KO-s, why someone can't respect that I'm a sucker for other things?

[HEND]

Thats easy. Its because like "hipsters", they think that pretending to like something that few others do somehow makes them more hip or more evolved than the average fan.

Its like, "oh hey everyone, look how smart I am that I enjoy watching Rigo run away for 36 minutes. Im so smart, and the neanderthals dont get it"

Don't generalize people who don't have the same taste as you as "hipsters" even if you find realy hard to like that style. Just don't. They also don't call you a fat bloodthirsty couch hussar who just wants bread and circus. Or if some of them do then you should be smarter than them and shouldn't do the same.