3 most annoying things in boxing

Nice one Eddie!!

 

I agree, it's the casuals who bring the most money to boxing which drives the sport forwards.

 

the main one for me is the big fights not happening, drives me round the bend!

Garcia vs linares is a perfect example

 

I was about to say this but more in terms of Warren v Hearn.

Obviously the likes of AJ - Fury is massive politics and channel selection etc. But surely it’s a lot easier to make the likes of Buglioni - Yarde? Flanagan - Crolla? These could have been great local derby dust ups.

 

agreed, I meant to say on the domestic scene aswell, hearn and frank will very rarely cross paths unless there is a huge amount of money to be made for both sides

 

Funnily enough, those are the 3 things which casuals who love Matchroom FC moan about the most

 

1. Eddie Hearn
2. Matchroom
3. Sky sports commentators

 

Well, let's look at these

1) - My dude he promotes a ****ing managerial partnership with StuHub, that is not ok. He has had a good start to the year actually in terms of fights but he has put an awful lot of **** on. He should be called out for it. And what exactly does 'boxing back in the big time' mean? Does that just mean PPV? Or does it mean mediocre fighters are getting unwarranted hype? It's such a meaningless statement. Good fights are what matter, nothing else.

2) - Casuals are ****ing annoying. I was at GGG-Brook. I sat and listened to how Brook was going to KO GGG etc etc. People have trash opinions, I can handle that, but for some reason casuals are intransigent. Moreover, it was casuals who lobbed a pint at the Kazakh women a few rows from me in the crowd. They don't love the sport. They love the 'event'. They don't care for good fights or good fighters, they care for NAMES and Michael ****ing Buffer.

3) - "Never been in a ring" that is actually the most annoying thing in boxing. They are putting their lives in danger, absolutely. But they knew that and they get paid well for it. I don't blame Brook for quitting what so ever, I'd have quit for less. But it WAS a quit. He quit. Quit quit quit quit quit. Which was a shame because she showed balls against GGG. It hasn't put me off him though because I understand why he did it.

 

Yeah man, they were superb domestic fights. They would have likely sold decent as well, seems a no brainer for both

 

Bit about casuals is spot on. When fans talk about how casuals bring more money in - you realise that only helps the boxers and the promoters who get paid? The fans don't get ****. Instead we have to then fork out PPV to watch Joshua knockout some bum. Whenever there is a decent fight made, casuals (who won't watch any boxing apart from the "big" fights) will snap up the tickets because they have O2 priority or are just lucky in the ticket queues online, and then spend the entire undercard taking selfies, getting pissed or singing football songs.

Then you have the casuals who try to talk boxing with you at work.

****ing hate them so much, couldn't care at all if that makes me sound like an elitist *****.

 

If you think those are the most annoying things in boxing, you really don't have anything to worry about.

My most annoying are, 1) the wrong fighter often getting the win, 2) best fights not taking place, 3) far too many "champions".

And I blame Eddy Hearn for all that

 

More to the point, casuals don't tend to go to any small shows, so they actually do very little for boxing as a whole.

 

Casuals overall are good for the sport. I think every die-hard fan on here would have started of as a casual but a certain fighter or event captured them, and they become big boxing fans in general as a result. Before there was many casuals look at the state of the Sky Bills pre Eddie Hearn on Sky and include his early bills in it too, they were of shocking quality. Look at the arenas most live bills were in, they weren't they were in Leisure Centres. Both quality of venue and quality of bills have improved with a huge increase of casual fans and the number of die-hard fans will increase as a result in the years ahead. I agree many don't have knowledge of sport and spout paper talk and views of biased commentay but knowledge comes with experience. Listening to such views is a small price to pay in return for watching the sport we love flourish.

 

1.) How everyone's an 'expert' when it comes to the big fights. Someone telling you why X fighter will beat Y fighter when its clear they have limited knowledge about the sport.

2.) When fighters call out other fighters knowing full well the match won't get made. When Wilder called out AJ even though he knew he had a mandatory challenger, Tete doing it now with Burnett even though a voluntary fight between rival promoters won't happen. Then they get accused of ducking when knowing full well it can't happen. Seems a cheap way to appear superior.

3.) Everyone on BT Sport/BoxNation feeling the need to bring up Anthony Joshua when Dubois fights. Dubois is a good prospect, coming along nicely, but they don't need to hype him off the back of Joshua, "Dubois hits harder then AJ" "Dubois did better against X fighter Then AJ did against him" Let the lad make his name off the back of his own skill instead of comparing him to someone else all the time.