Is it crazy that I only watch Heavyweight boxing?

I enjoy other weights as well. But anything below Lightweight has no appeal to me. Except Inoue.

I prefer Heavyweight boxing though. But the lighter weights can be TV friendly. On TV all weight classes appear to be about the same size but the lighter weight classes are faster and throw more punches.

If you go to a fight in real life it’s way more exciting to watch a Heavyweight fight then a lighter weight. You can really feel the energy in the crowd and you can hear the whacking of the punches and them crashing in the canvas and stuff.

I also like the one punch can end the fight thing Heavyweight got going on.

And then there is the realization that the Heavyweight Champion in a real sense is the strongest Champion.

 

The new heavyweight motto is "fight in the ring once a year, but hit the buffet once a week".

 

Yeah it's weird.

 

the guys under 120 throw a thousand punches, never even stun each other and their faces look ready for wedding pics after most fights.

 

Pretty much only watch 112-126, 135-147 and 168. Only watch Beterbiev and Bivol at the heavier weights.

 

HW has the most hilarious size mismatches too which adds to the drama.

Remember that time a short obese LHW KO'd Big Joshie?
And those other two times Usyk bossed Big Joshie?

You don't find that in other divisions except when Canelo is dragging up Khan for the MW title because he isn't quite big enough for Golovkin, then coming into the ring at 185lbs. But Khan was still taller to be fair.

 

True and in a strange sense it makes it more like most sports where those without sufficient physical gifts/advantages can't compete... In that regard the lower weights can feel contrived and open to abuse (with sufficient cutting).

Call me a dinosaur if you like, but I find it difficult to watch the women's categories in many sports knowing that mid-teens boys would beat them... Tight competition is interesting, but slow paced soccer, tennis etc often aren't

 

There are probably more fantasy fights involving Frank Bruno than Ray Leonard in the classic forum, so I suspect you’re not the only one

 

Maybe it’s strange there are weight classes to begin with.

The Ancient Greek had Boxing, Wrestling, and a form of MMA but no weight classes.

The Roman Gladiators didn’t have weight classes.

 

Then you would deprive yourself of most the great fighters who have ever existed. No Pacquaio, Duran, Whitaker, Chavez, Leonard, etc. Just Andy Ruiz, Wilder and Hrgovic. You want to be stuck watching that?

 

Even at the apex of heavyweight boxing it was never the most actually interesting division, just the most ballyhooed. Right now it's dismal.

 

Not crazy but you are missing out. HW is awful now.

 

Not really weird, maybe a bit old fashioned though. There was a time when the heavyweight champion was one of the biggest stars on the planet, boxing was a bigger deal than it is currently.

 

Hey I remember that, it was right around the time Golovkin drug Kell Brook up 2 divisions too?
Edit: and broke his face due to the mismatch?

 

No, just sounds boring as f*ck....