starting to lose massive interest in boxing....anyone else?
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I just miss fighters like Tyson, RJJ, HOLYFIELD, bowe, duran, hearns, leonard, hagler, prince naseem and his awesome showboating, lennox, briggs, delahoya, vargas, mayweather, pacquiao, hatton, etc. etc.
Where are the fighters like these guys and the awesome action packed matchups???? That is the kind of boxing I want to see.Comment
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Problem is Crawford-Postol is the kind of fight we need to pay for. The two best fighters in a division fighting each other in their primes is the kind of fight we need to support and make a success if we're going to see it more often.Big time. Started with Mayweather's retirement for me. I watch boxing for the big fights and we don't see that much anymore. We've got maybe 3 this year. We need at least one per month to keep the interest going.
We do have Crawford-Postol this month, but it's on PPV so I'll probably just stream it. I doubt any bars will be showing this fight in my area since both guys are unknown.
I agree that the names don't make a fight we should pay for, but if we don't, promoters and fighters won't see the point in making these fights.Comment
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It gets harder and harder to say I'm a boxing fan. We don't get nearly enough good fights to balance out the bull****. The sport is a joke in so many ways and has been for a long time, but there is not enough good to distract from it anymore, and seemingly less good with every day. There is so little to get excited about anymore, and almost nothing with any real mainstream significance.
I can't imagine ever stopping following boxing, but the sport is just awful. It's not even a sport now.These pretty much encapsulate where I'm at with the sport. I've had periods before where my enthusiasm has wained but it seems somehow different now, like my emotional connection to the sport has entered its end game.Lost my love for it a few years back.
I think 2012 when we were massively spoiled it just went to total **** after and I've not really been able to get really excited for any fight since.
Last fight I was truly hyped for like a kid at Christmas was Donaire vs Rigo and it really delivered for me.
I used to love studying upcoming fights, breaking them down, supporting underdogs, talking to casuals - convincing them to watch quality upcoming fights they normally wouldn't watch and all that good stuff these days most of the boxing news just flat out depresses me.
I'm like a beaten housewife who just can't walk away.
In my last year at high school, Thursday afternoons were a double session of business studies. It was so tedious that midway through the year I decided that I wasn't putting myself through it any longer. I'd get my registration mark and walk out of the door, out of the building and over to the sports hall where I'd put on my P.E kit and join in with the class that was taking place there. On my way home I'd buy myself that weeks edition of the Marshall Cavendish 'Boxers' series, a magazine, usually on an old fighter with an accompanying VHS tape comprising his best fights. Sometimes I'd get my friends to steal it and I'd buy it from them at half the price with money left over for sweats.
That's what got me through bull**** Thursdays and the knowledge that I'd been mis-sold a bull**** GCSE topic by a bull**** teacher in a bull**** school. A P.E session, Joe Louis, Ezzard Charles, Carlos Monzon and Carmen Basilio were my refuge from life's bull****. Which at the time seemed like a deluge.
That's no longer the case. Boxing now feels like it is the bull**** in my life. I don't watch the old fights anymore. My boxing books, untouched for maybe two years, are about to be boxed and moved into the loft. I watch less fights in a fortnight than I used to watch in a single night. A month can pass without me watching a bout.
I'm still here, just, but the sport has started to feel like one long double session of business studies.Last edited by - Ram Raid -; 07-10-2016, 03:06 PM.Comment
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