How do organise your classic fight watching?

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  1. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    (Nerdy thread alert!)

    Interested to know from those of you who watch fights regularly how you go about organising what you watch.

    Do you just pick fights at random or do you have a system?

    Do you have a watch list or backlog of fights you want to get through or do you just see how the mood takes you and put on any old thing?

    Anyway, fire away and let us know...
     
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  2. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    OK well I generally have areas of interest that i'm looking into. Right now i'm looking at lightweights and light-welterweights from 2010-2019. So I track down the key men for this timeframe/weight division (I even like this part) and then pick out their key fights (contender-contender, Ring or TBRB) and make up a playlist.

    Then I just tax them until i'm SATED.
     
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  3. Jel

    Jel Obsessive list maker Full Member

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    I'd admire your discipline. I would like to take such an ordered approach but I lose focus and jump around too much.

    My YouTube playlists are pretty well organised though, I have to say.
     
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    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    I sympathise. But there's nothing like emerging from an issue of fights (And they're all good fights) and feeling you really, really understand a period in history. Really understand what happened and who was who.
     
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  5. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I get a lot of inspiration from you guys actually...the debates ...the fantasy fights ...a good thread
     
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  6. Jel

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    That's great.

    I'm currently working through my 1930s playlist focusing on lightweight to welterweight, which has made me realise the size of the gaps in my classic boxing knowledge. But when it starts feeling a bit like homework then I jump out of it and watch something unrelated.
     
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  7. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    I don't :lol:

    I do have a massive playlist of Boxing, but it isn't ordered in any sense. I watched so much in an 'ordered' fashion when younger that I don't bother now. I also download rare fight films or ones not available on YouTube. Recently managed to find Davila vs Duarte 1 and downloaded it, so I'll watch that soon.
     
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  8. Jel

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    Rough, do you feel there are any areas of history in terms of fight watching that you haven't covered yet or are you now at the point where you've done all the out and out historical classics and can just pick and choose from any era?
     
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  9. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Similar to McGrain, I tend to focus on weight classes.

    Basically all last week, I watched nothing but fights from guys 105-126.

    So there was a lot of Gomez, a few Chandler fights, two Carbajal fights, two Canizales fights, watched a Mark Johnson fight, watched Luis Ibarra vs Betulio Gonzalez, watched Julio Cesar Borboa vs Robert Quiroga (very underrated war), and a few others.

    Also rewatched Jofre-Medel and Arbachakov-Kittikasem.
     
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  10. roughdiamond

    roughdiamond Ridin' the rails... Full Member

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    I'd say I'm a jack of all trades, master of none, really. I am more knowledgeable on certain areas than others, though. If I don't know anything I'll just use the search function on this site to look for old threads and resources.
     
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  11. Xplosive

    Xplosive Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    This week, I think I'm in more of a 168-175 mood, so I'll probably focus on fights/fighters in those divisions.

    I'm gonna re-watch both Brewer-Ottke fights tonight, just to see how I score both of them - cause my initial watching of the first fight had Brewer getting robbed.
     
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  12. Jel

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    Awesome! Not that I'm trying to compete (because I'm really not) but I don't think I'm ever going to match the number of fights some of you guys watch.

    It's good because if this site has taught me anything over the past two and a half years - and it's taught me a lot - it's that I'll always be a fan of boxing but never a historian. I just don't have the dedication and discipline required.

    Love it though.
     
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  13. Xplosive

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    The beautiful thing about this sport is that I don't think ANYBODY has seen every fight. There's just soooooooooooooooooooo many fights in history to cover.

    There's still a number of them I haven't gotten around to seeing yet, but they're on my list.
     
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  14. Dubblechin

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    I've been cataloging and saving my collection to MPEG files so I can stream them. I find I watch them more often if I can just scroll through lists and click to watch.

    I organize the files by Year, and within each Year folder by Month, and within each month by fight. You also get a clearer idea of all the fights that were taking place around those ... so you sort of get the broader overall picture.

    Plus, by having all my fights on multiple hardrives ... and just plugging the drives into my TV, it's easier to maintain than having rooms of VHS tapes and shelves full of DVDs.

    Organizing them that way also works better with apps like PLEX, which requires you to save TV series' in folders by season within the overall show file.
     
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  15. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    I try and organise in certain eras, but in reality I just get bored and start watching other ****, get bored of that and go back the first stuff.

    For example, I watched about 10 Nelson fights, and have about 7 planned left, but I got bored and started watching Leon Spinks and a few Amateur fights. As well as other assorted Brit level fights I've been meaning to catch up.
     
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