When did the new age boxing fans start

[Cinci Champ]

Now i doubt i will be able to make the point im trying to make but when did boxing fans become all about the laughs and the politics instead of the sport? It seems like people cant even have a real conversation about the sport of boxing anymore and its almost turned into nothing but politics. Whether its fighters. promotions, networks, fighting style i mean there are so many lines drawn in the sand. When did everything become such a war? I guess it started with mayweather manny which turned into top rank vs gbp but man this is getting ridiculous at this point. Its like if there is a fight on pbc people cant even have an opinion on the fight its always about the politics of it all and whether u like al haymon or not. The same goes with top rank, main events etc. I mean who gives a **** about al haymon or bob arum. Then you got guys who cant even have a real conversation and all they care about is the lulz and they say the same 2 liner about mayweather or pacquiao no matter what the subject is. Sorry but no ones cares about your alter ego online persona lol.

I guess at the end of the day I wish we as fans could get past all these politics and stick together and just get back to the beautiful sport we love. Obviously people are always going to like and dislike certain fighters but I just think fans are just as at fault as the promoters for all the politics. When we take sides on every little subject all the way down to if we agree on what brand of gloves the fighters are wearing we make it possible for these promoters and networks to keep up the same politics and the same song and dance. What happened to just wanting to see fights? Now people get into the money of it all as tho we really give a **** about that stuff we just want certain fights. Now I doubt the point im trying to make has come across the right way that I intended but at the end of the day I just wish we could get back to being fans of the sport and not fans of promotions and networks. It really has started to look like ********s vs **********s in this sport

[Eastcoast]

With the internet and social media making more & more information available, it just gives fans more & more to fight over. It's like that with all sports. Boxing has always been about numbers/politics when it comes to setting up fights, now the fans are able to be more involved/knowing about it.

[Eff Pandas]

With how boxing works some of the most powerful people are the Haymon's & Arum's & I don't really see how that changes. And with people siding with this side or that side there is definitely a ******** vs ********** feel (I've been using that comparison alot with Floyd vs Manny ****, I've started to hate Floyd & Manny hardcore fans with a passion because of the political talking points that each side seem to cling to nowadays & they take a very unified front on considering their all a bunch of child-like mind adults living in their divorced moms house causing her a high level of stress each month I'm sure).

I ultimately think we are a long way from any reality that talks about the fights more than all the other bs going on before & after the fights is the disappointing thing. I think boxing needs to get rid of some of these chiefs & form some centralized power structure that won't allow for alliances to promoters or TV channels. Everything will be Pro Boxing & big fights will be made with less drama so fans will focus more about those big fights rather then who's getting 60/40.

[Cinci Champ]

With the internet and social media making more & more information available, it just gives fans more & more to fight over. It's like that with all sports. Boxing has always been about numbers/politics when it comes to setting up fights, now the fans are able to be more involved/knowing about it.

ya thats a good point internet is probably the real culprit

[IronDanHamza]

First wave in 2007 - "The World Awaits"

Second wave in 2009-2010 - "Mayweather-Pacquaio saga"

[Zaryu]

It started around 2005. The combination of certain boxers' groupies and the anonymity the internet brings resulted in the "fans" we have roaming today in message boards. They only way to defeat this "new age boxing fans" is to ignore their posts, but there's always people falling for them and feeding them with motives to keep polluting the atmosphere of our sport.

I used to participate at another boxing forum more frequently than I currently do, but the ******ity of the people (the majority) posting really turned me off from it. I feel that if enough people ignore these type of "boxing fans" and just participate in real boxing discussions, then it can eventually go back to normal, but they way it looks now, this is the new norm.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

Boxing changed right when Pacquaio and Mayweather beat Oscar, that gave birth and created 2 Megastars and with the online social media world just taking off at around this time too, it was easier then ever to express your opinions.

The internet is a major player in out sport, you can argue that Boxing is an online media driven sport. Most boxing fans get their news for boxing from online sources not from conventional sporting news outlet. That with the fact that boxing is truly a worldwide sport = more fans and more coverage of it worldwide.

Why is everything a damn fight in boxing? cause it a fighting sport. Its my team is better then yours and now we got these fanboys (new generation of fans who only got into this sport cause of manny or floyd so thats all they know, they been taught that way that team = anything their fighter supports i.e. toprank,showtime,haymon etc) so that word team where it used to mean the fighter and his trainer and to a lesser extent their country/region/area/race has now undertaken a broader definition to now mean anything and everything their fighter is personally involved in. That is how we get these fans that only talk about the "Behind the scenes" drama and not really about the sport.

Look at Mayweather fans how ofter do you see them actually talk boxing? their concern is mostly with the drama that is Mayweather and at the very least extent do they care he is a fighter. They care about what Mayweather represents not about the actual fights.

Will it every change, no cause information can be relayed too fast now and too many powerful people in boxng that have their own agenda and their hands in the cookie jar.

[boxinghead530]

First wave in 2007 - "The World Awaits"

Second wave in 2009-2010 - "Mayweather-Pacquaio saga"

You beat me to it. I was going to say after ODLH-Mayweather a huge influx of the new(so called fans and experts of the "sweet science" emerged. Then the the whole PAC-Mayweather perpetuated it.

[ReIoaded]

When did the war against using paragraphs start?

[M4RK]

When they invented ppv, and when too many belts and weights got involved.

Think about it.

Everyone knew who the heavyweight champ was pre ppv.