Your Boxing Pet Peeves

People bringing up Teddy Atlas ' s predictions. Who cares who he picked.

 

-All of the belts
All these Regular, Super, Diamond, Silver, International. These belts are just for promotional and sanctioning fee purposes.

-Boxers who don't take the sport seriously
Adrien Broner...

-Entitled boxers who haven't accomplished anything
Amir Khan

-Fighters that quit

-Jim Lampley's commentating
Like the OP said, his narrating and calling the wrong things out

-Old, slow-speaking commentators
Zzzzzz....

-Invasive refs or refs that just stand there

-Hometown decisions
Big fan of Danny Garcia, but he should've lost that fight.

-Fans who cry "duck" or "scared" for EVERYTHING
Apparently EVERYTHING Mayweather does is tied to Pacquiao.

-Fans who overhype fighters who've done squat
Everyone swears up and down Keith Thurman can beat Floyd, or that Golovkin can beat Ward.

- Biased broadcast commentators
Pacquiao vs Bradley? Anyone?

 

Biased referees, who favor the known fighter, like calling Bhop "Bernard" when giving him a warning, while calling the lesser known fighter by his last name or no name at all

Adulation from some boxing fans over boxers who do almost nothing but dance around the ring, throwing an occasional punch, like Willie Pep, who supposedly didn't throw a single punch in a round but still won it, yeah, right, not in my book, clearly I go for the guy who is forcing the action

Commentators who have an agenda and are clearly favoring one fighter over another, like when a favored fighter throws and lands a punch they ooh and ahh, but when the other fighter throws and lands a punch they tell you how much time is left in the round, hate that crap

 

late start times
PPV
a million belts
17 weight classes
promotional incest
commentators on US telecasts
lazy promoters

 

haha!

 

That's the Vodka influence!!!


I hate when boxers keep touching gloves before each round!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Bad refs, bad judges, promoters who don't care about the fans, boxers who don't care about the fans and too many sanctioning bodies. If there was only one belt per weight class a lot of this bs that we are exposed to would be eliminated.

 

*******'s, *****'s.

 

A pet hate of mine is fighters slipping over on such a regular basis. Whatever happened to the resin tray?

 

That's rosin tray and nowadays advertisements are provided all over the canvas and when sweat or water drips on the advertisements, they get slick.

 

Guys who grunt every time they throw a punch, like Lamont Peterson or Antwone Smith

 

I realise the decals on the canvas are slippery and they do slip on them. But do boxers still use the rosin tray? If they do I haven't noticed it. Assuming they don't, perhaps they should?

 

Rosin trays were used in the old days with leather-soled shoes. I think the new shoes have rubber soles but I am not sure.

 

The words "*******" and "*****" and every other childish variant of the 2. Along with the morons who fling them about.

Fans of promoters and managers. (Wtf?)

Promoters and managers.

10 point must system.

Reluctance of judges to score even rounds even.

Floyd mayweather.

Obsessed fans of kieth thurman. (Not kieth himthelf.)

Fighters and promoters refusing to work with one another.

Refs that refuse to let guys fight on the inside.

Rigondeaux. (Don't ask why. Guy just rubs me the wrong way. I think it's his smug ass face.)

Andre ward. (Son of god? How arrogant can the guy be?)

Danny garcia, his father and fans.

The wrong guy getting the win...over n over n over.

No instant replay.

Sanctioning bodies.

Excuses.

There's tons more. This sport drives me fukkin insane. Wish to god I could get into football or hockey or somethin. Guess the short list of things I love about it outweigh the long list of things I hate. I guess the general lack of organization is what I hate most.