Boxing’s getting boring.

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by Austinboxing, Jul 4, 2023.


  1. Toney F*** U

    Toney F*** U Boxing junkie Full Member

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    Just watch the Welterweight bouts this weekend to get your spark back. It’s been a great year so far.
     
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  2. Forza

    Forza Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Boxing is on fire this year, the only thing we're missing is a big meaningful HW fight
     
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  3. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member

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    Boxing has been on fire this year so far, TF you talking about son!?
     
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  4. Rollin

    Rollin Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's been fire just this year alone.

    Ajagba-Shaw
    Smith-Eubank Jr.
    Beterbiev-Yarde
    Lara-Wood I and II
    Jack-Makabu
    Takam-Yoka
    Benavidez-Plant
    Zhang-Joyce
    Davis-Garcia
    Canelo-Ryder
    Haney-Lomachenko
    Taylor-Lopez
    Ioka-Franco II
    .. and all the other tasty little fights like Ellis-Villa, Joshua-Franklin, Cordina-Shere Khan etc.
     
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  5. Mountbattenberg

    Mountbattenberg Misses nutin' banned Full Member

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    People complain about boxing every year, and also did in the 1990's - the decade that fans online glorify these days. The fact that we have more access to information (misinformation/disinformation included) means that it can get tiresome quickly. I find it best to just skim past all of the gossip unless I feel it has real substance, which is not very often.
     
  6. Maidanas Gun Tattoo

    Maidanas Gun Tattoo Well-Known Member Full Member

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    This year has been great. All the mma>boxing talk has left town for the time being. For younger guys, it’s one of the best years they’ve ever seen.
     
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  7. YCGS

    YCGS Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's been a really good year. Boxing is just irrelevant now though. After Canelo and Fury there aren't many household names out there that casuals would know.

    The next highest paid and known "boxers" are Youtubers. It's sad. Tommy Fury was always a bit of a joke and now he has gone full-on Youtube fighter. It's easier and way more profitable than being in a real fight with actually skilled fighters.
     
  8. like a boss

    like a boss Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I would settle for a little meaningful heavyweight fight at moment.
     
  9. TEAM_LOMA

    TEAM_LOMA This is Boxing Full Member

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    One of the dumbest posts I've seen and I've seen quite a few.
     
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  10. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    Fulton Inoue the only one worth watching, I’ll be watching The stacked UFC bouts back to
     
  11. NullaLexInk

    NullaLexInk Sometimes a fella's just gotta be movin' on Full Member

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    Can't agree at all. This has been an incredible year through the first half, and the third quarter already has some fights that look promising. This month alone has Ennis-Villa and Stanionis-Ortiz at the beginning and Fulton-Inoue and Crawford-Spence at the end. Next month we're getting Navarrete-Valdez, Beterbiev-Smith and Usyk-Dubois, with the possibility of Anderson-Kossobutskiy, and a month later we'll be getting Zhang-Joyce II. Plus we might wrap the year up with Usyk-Hrgovic and AJ-Wilder.

    Some weight classes have been disappointing lately, sure. But as a whole boxing is doing pretty damn good in 2023.
     
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  12. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member

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    Is a better year than 2007 Lex?
     
  13. NullaLexInk

    NullaLexInk Sometimes a fella's just gotta be movin' on Full Member

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    I can't say, I've only been really into boxing for the last two years and while I do watch archive fights, I have a hard time keeping track of what happened when. I can certainly say it's been the best year since I became a fan if nothing else :lol:
     
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  14. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member

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    Only 2 years? You know alot for just 2 years. Good for you.
     
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  15. NullaLexInk

    NullaLexInk Sometimes a fella's just gotta be movin' on Full Member

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    Thanks man :) I left some of my old hobbies behind not too long before getting into this because I realized I wasn't getting any enjoyment out of them anymore. So I now had a bunch of free time and ended up watching some boxing matches, and I decided to just throw myself into it. Just watched old stuff at first, because I bought into the notion "only old fighters were any good," but then I watched my first live card (Usyk-AJ) and I don't think there's any going back now :lol:
     
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