You guys really love boxing?

[uppercut510]

love it, best fights not happening but its life, the threads were ruined by fanboy rivalries that continue until this day, cant even have a decent balanced boxing convo anymore

[W1LL]

I lost interest. That's why the forum died down.



Am I the only one that feels this way?

I can relate, brony. I am addicted to boxing but I've fallen out of love with it. I've ragequit a few times over recent years, and each time I come back I'm that little more disillusioned. I used to enjoy arguing on these forums, but real life happened, and I'm getting a bit too long in the tooth for it now. Even this forum, used to have a lot more knowledgeable and respected posters. Now it's like 90% trolls who won't stop even when they've been soundly defeated. I think there's some kinda Illuminati agenda to slowly dumb everything down, in turn dumbing down the masses. Boxing is becoming a sport for the fickle casuals. Won't be long before the IBO title is accepted as a genuine World title, and we'll have a couple more alphabet titles added to the mix. Couple more years of this Catchweight chit and they will create a few more fixed weight classes. 144? 150? 137? 171? Why not?

[boxingenius002]

Eh, don't bring your negative energy to a place designated for those passionate about it!

Hardcore boxing fan here, love it and always will. Would like to keep the vibe positive among-st like minded people.

[paulf]

I've watched a lot of guys become cynical over the years, especially as they enter their late 20s/early 30s. They look back on whatever era was going on while they were in highscool-early 20s as some golden age and think things are awful now, but the reality is they just didn't understand the game as well as they do now.

When i find myself getting cynical about the sport, I think back to this excerpt of article AJ Leibling wrote reflecting on a heavyweight fight he watched at the garden in the 1920s many years later. It's powerful stuff and gives you some perspective.

"I got out my copy of the official program of the fight and began to read the high class feature articles as I munched my sandwich. One reminded me that I had seen the first boxing show held at Yankee Stadium-on May 12, 1923. I had forgotten it was the first show, and even that 1923 was the year the stadium opened. In my true youth the Yankees used to share the Polo Grounds with the Giants, and I had forgotten that, too, because I never cared much about baseball, although, come to think of it, I used to see the Yankees play occasionally in the nineteen-teens, and should have remembered.

I remember the boxing show itself very well, though. I happened during my second suspension from college, and I paid five dollars for a high grand-stand seat. The program merely said it had been an "all-star heavyweight bill promoted by Tex Richard for the Hearst Milk Fund," but I found I could still remember every man and every bout on the card.

One of the main events was between old Jesse Willard, the former heavyweight champion of the world, who has lost the title to Jack Dempsey in 1919, and a young heavyweight named Floyd Johnson. Willard had been coaxed from retirement because there was such a dearth of heavyweight material that Rickard though he could still get by, but as I remember the old fellow, he couldn't fight a lick. He had a fair left jab and a right-uppercut that a fellow had to walk into to get hurt by, and he was big and soft. Johnson was a mauler worse than Rex Layne, and the old man knocked him out.

The other main event, ex aequo, had Luis Angel Firpo opposing a fellow named Jack McAuliffe II, from Detroit, who had only fifteen fights and had never beaten anybody, and had a glass jaw. The two winners, of whose identity there was infinitesimal preliminary doubt, were to fight each other for the right to meet the great Jack Dempsey. Firpo was so crude that Marciano would have been a Fancy Dan by comparison. He could hit with only one hand-the right-he hadn't the faintest idea what to do in close, and he never cared much for that business anyway. He knocked McAuliffe out, of course, and then, in a later elimination bout, stopped poor old Willard. He subsequently became a legend by going one and a half sensational rounds with Dempsey, in a time that is now represented as the golden age in American boxing."

I reflected with satisfaction that old Ahab Moore could have whipped all four principals on that card within fifteen rounds, and that while Dempsey may have been a great champion, he had less to beat than Marciano. I felt the satisfaction because it proved the world isn't going backwards, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

[bigfo0t]

I know how you feel, but I still love Boxing. There's always at least 1 special talent above the rest. Right now IMO, it's Loma, no doubt. Can't wait til the 12th.

The only other sports/competitions I like are mostly board-riding sports. Skate, surf, snow, wake! Kind of for similar reasons too. Skills, talent, understanding of physics, etc. I will always have at least some interest in these sports.

Take a look at these and tell me what you see:









I've always wondered what a slick, fleet footed, plank flipper could do in the Ring with proper training and dedication.

This shiet is pretty dangerous too. People die every year getting slammed into coral reefs, trapped in currents, all kinds of ****!

[VatoMulatto]

I love competition. You really like Tennis? I can't watch that or Golf


I just don't care about the fights. Ridiculous.

I'll watch when the NBA playoffs are over.

Tennis is competition, it's actually similar to boxing. Tennis is a great f-cking sport.

[Boxing Goat]

I feel like a lot of the biggest trolls left

[Joe Beamish]

I love the sport itself, what happens inside the ring. But I hate the organizations, how the sport is run, the multiple million belts, and the lack of single champions per weight class.

I also hate the absence of accountability for judges. They need to indicate why they score the fights the way they do. For each round, they should name the specific criteria that made them score the round the way they did. Ring generalship, was it? Effective aggression? Or what?

And I hate not knowing that I'll eventually get to see who the best fighter is in each division. I prefer how ALL other sports eventually match up the best against the best. Boxing misses this terribly.

Finally I hate day-before weigh-ins. This has made weight gamesmanship a key part of the sport, when it shouldn't be.

I like boxing. I'd like it a lot more if the sport were better organized, more fair, more accountable.

[alexguiness]

I love the sport, but hate the business.

[sicko]

This forum died down because Forums IN GENERAL are a dying platform because of Social Media and stuff like Facebook Groups, Group Chat and other platforms which honestly are way better.

As for the Sport of boxing, 5 months into the year and I would say it has been a very good year of fights so far. For Showtime at least it has been a very good year so far with fights like Wilder vs Ortiz, Hurd vs Lara, Vargas vs Broner. But as a Boxing Fan In General we need good fights on all platforms that shows boxing. ESPN and HBO could use some better match ups consistently. With ESPN things will pick up with Crawford vs Horn, Pacquiao vs Matthysse, Loma vs Linares so they will be fine.

With HBO the Canelo thing was a MAJOR setback! They don't have any major matches coming up at all. Their Upcoming Fight Schedule is: GGG vs Vanes and Sadam Ali vs. Jaime Munguia and that is it