Why the **** these fans always try to pick sides?

[Funky_Monk]

It's ridiculous I think it's because too many here are living vicariously.

Logic is not found in abundance on NSB or in boxing generally.

[UNBIASED BOXING]

It's the fans, announcers, and promoters people hate.

GGG for instance is a really exciting boxer to watch. He's the type of fighter most people love. I really want to be a fan of his, but his unrealistic fans make it hard. They can't let him be what he is, they have to try to elevate him to All Time status before he's beaten anyone good. And the HBO slappies deserve some of the blame too, but I guess they are just trying to sell one of their fighters. GGG's promoters share a lot of the blame for the fact that he is 33 and is just now starting to fight quality opposition. I'll tell you this, if GGG had been fighting good fighters starting when he was 25 he would be almost universally liked, he'd probably have a loss or two by now, but he'd be considered a warrior who was an exciting KO artist.

Loma is the same thing, this guy has 9 total pro fights and people are comparing him to Pacquaio and Mayweather. Let him earn that over the next few years, if he stays active he won't need a ton of years as he's started out fighting top guys even though he waited to turn pro. Loma gets to 20-0 and he'll deserve to be compared to Manny and Floyd, not before then.

Heck, some people don't like Crawford, not sure what that's about.

Also don't understand the Ward hate.

1. That is ******ed to hate on a fighter because of the few trolls posting on here seeking to incite a reacton.

2. To correct you, GGG turned pro at 26? and is currently 35. Unfortunately for him, he had a ****ty promotions team/managers he signed with that wouldn't give him the fights he wanted. You can't blame the guy. He didn't have the privilege of being born in the U.S. and having easier access to create a good fanbase as well as a promotional team.

3. Lomachenko is only compared to them, not being touted as being greater. We all know he has a long way to go. They're being compared on how they fight, and where they were early on in their career compared to where he is. Why would you ever consider record to be important? Being 20-0 doesn't usually mean ****. What matters is the quality of your opposition. Most of Floyd's and Pacquiaos early wins were against irrelevant opponents. Meanwhile, in 9 fights Lomachenko is already a 2 division champion and defeated Walters and GRjr (as well as decent fighters like Sosa and Martinez). But regardles, it's only meant to recognize that Lomachenko really seems to be the next big, great talent.

[juggernaut666]

Well im convinced that Wilder fans simply DONT want to see the guy actually fight anyone as long as he keeps winning and will tell you the sky is yellow if they have to ...nuff said wont get into any deluded convo on it. lol

[SilverMiles]

You can't recognize Mayweather and Pacquiao's talent at the same time. You can't like Brook and Spence or Canelo and Golovkin at the same time. It's like an unwritten rule here. A lot of fans falling into that trap

That **** is ******ed. The way they get sensitive over all these fighters who gets hit in the head too much, you'd think they know all these boxers on a personal level. Plus discussing their purses and who's the A side, that's probably the dumbest **** ever, you ain't making none of that anyway. If Spence/Brook/Canelo/Golovkin are bums, don't give your fighter any credit for beating them.

Mayweather is one of my favorite fighters EVER, that doesn't mean I hate on Pacquiao or that I don't appreciate his talent

Brook and Spence, I like them both, they got hell of a potential

Getting tired of all these Canelo/Golovkin threads. When the fight was announced I was thinking oh **** now all these NSB debates won't stop. You're so confident in predicting the outcome - if boxing was predictable like that it wouldn't be interesting

I think it's annoying when people complain about fans taking a side in big fights. It's very self explanatory.

[Johnny2x2x]

1. That is ******ed to hate on a fighter because of the few trolls posting on here seeking to incite a reacton.

2. To correct you, GGG turned pro at 26? and is currently 35. Unfortunately for him, he had a ****ty promotions team/managers he signed with that wouldn't give him the fights he wanted. You can't blame the guy. He didn't have the privilege of being born in the U.S. and having easier access to create a good fanbase as well as a promotional team.

3. Lomachenko is only compared to them, not being touted as being greater. We all know he has a long way to go. They're being compared on how they fight, and where they were early on in their career compared to where he is. Why would you ever consider record to be important? Being 20-0 doesn't usually mean ****. What matters is the quality of your opposition. Most of Floyd's and Pacquiaos early wins were against irrelevant opponents. Meanwhile, in 9 fights Lomachenko is already a 2 division champion and defeated Walters and GRjr (as well as decent fighters like Sosa and Martinez). But regardles, it's only meant to recognize that Lomachenko really seems to be the next big, great talent.

Loma has 9 fights, but is way ahead of most fighters with only 9 fights, that's why if he gets to 20-1 it will likely come with several more very big wins so he'll deserve the hype then. Dude has 9 fights, 1 of which he lost. A few of those are really good wins. Basically he stayed an amateur and skipped the 15-20 opponents that most fighters usually get before they start fighting top guys. So Loma is ahead of the game in that respect. Loma also passes the eye test with flying colors, he looks like a rare talent.

With GGG, it's not a few fans, it's the whole hype that has been built up around him. Probably the most hyped fighter with so few noteworthy wins since Joe C before he fought Lacey. GGG also passes the eye test though too, he obviously is a very skilled boxer and ore than just a KO artist. I think it sucks that he was hidden for so long, who knows what kind of legacy he could have built.

Manny and Floyd fought champions over and over again. The bar they set is very high, so high in fact that you're not going to be able to reach it if you don't start fighting big fights early in your career.

I think this is what excites people about Canelo too. Canelo was so active as a young fighter that he had an impressive record at 20, then he started to fight some bigger fights and now at the young age of 26 he has over 50 fights with only 1 loss and has fought about 10 good to great fighters. Canelo's career has the highest ceiling of anyone right now because he challenged himself so young. He could easily fight 25 more times in his career and end up with an incredible resume.

One thing I am pretty sure of, GGG and Canelo will fight 2 or 3 times.

[al-Xander]

Don't know how it started but it spread out in other areas like HBO vs SHO, TR/GBP vs PBC, Arum/Oscar vs Haymon, etc.

[Elroy The Great]

sometimes a person can like multiple fighters/teams but need to pick one when they fight/play against each other.

i liked hagler and hearns but went with hagler. hearns ''hes a midget'' talk made the pick that much easier.