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It's astonishing really just how little a lot of these "fans" who label true fans "casuals" know. Even Larry who I don't particularly mind, he seems like a nice enough man with a passion for the sport didn't know that Willie Pep was a world champion. It's the guys like Mcdonalds who think Napoles and Griffith were 30's fighters and that 2007 to now is the best era ever and anything prior to him becoming interested in boxing (mainly Mayweather and Pacquaio) ****** because he doesn't know them or has never cared to try and even research them or watch any of the fights. Those are the lame fans that make boxing fans look bad. Fake fans that have never bothered to go further than boxrec or wikipedia and use youtube just to watch their idols fights for the 100th time rather than watch some truly great, historical fighters from other era's let alone actually try and hunt down rare content.Comment
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You seriously question whether a fan is real based on if they watch historical fights on DVD? Some people just don't choose to watch old fights because they already know the outcome.
You are making way too much of him not knowing the exact period when these guys fought and using that as a measure of whether he is a real fan or not.
Loving the sport isn't just based on answering questions properly.Comment
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To a degree yes, but it's more of a knock of this type of fan speaking with some kind of authority that he is above other fans and knows more and feeling that they are qualified to discuss all-time great ratings when they don't even know the field. Instead just dismissing them as "bums" because they've never heard of them and trying to bring down their achievements (which they don't know) and/or just tell others they don't know these era's or fighters either just to feel better about themselves. Also, these "fans" openly admit to watching certain fights dozens of times so they aren't that put off by knowing the outcome. They simply only harbor an interest in a handful of boxers so they are boxer fans not boxing fans.
So, yes. Fake fan. Hardcore fanboy of a particular fighter but hardly a fan of the sport. Most of them aren't even real fans of their fighter since if they were they'd go to watch these fights and fighters live which they have admitted to me that haven'tLast edited by chrisJS; 11-01-2018, 11:46 AM.Comment
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You left out something very important. A fighters health especially in the long run. Floyd laid out the blue print, fight twice a year, make a ton of money, and dont get hit.Comment
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It appears as if you are saying rewatching certain fights makes you a fan, even if you do it more than once, but rewatching other fights doesn't. That is extremely biased.
You seem mad because he took shots at you so you are labeling him a fake fan out of anger.
I just don't think there is only one way to be a true fan. While I agree fans should know something about the sport's history, not knowing Napoles or Griffith fought surely doesn't disqualify you from being a true fan.
Now if you want to say he is ****** for not even checking Google-well then you might have a valid point.Comment
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TBE always waited to fight fighters in decline fought Manny after being knock out fought Mosley and Oscar when they were had been the public deserved Manny vs Floyd in 09 not in 2015 Or fighting Mosley 5 years before their fightThat whole zero statement came out to discredit T.B.E. & now you dudes are using it to support that discredit. Not many fighters have or end with a zero on the loss column so ya'll can kill that whole zero talk to discredt him just like that whole "best of this generation" talk too cuz that is the same thing being used to discredit Floyd as T.B.E. cuz he IS T.B.E.
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