What's the worst thing.....

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  1. Smazz20

    Smazz20 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    about boxing in your opinion? I know this thread has been done before, but so has every other one:D Anyways, what do you think is the worst thing about boxing.

    Is it the sanctioning bodies?

    Too many weightclasses?

    Crap/too many PPV's?

    Padded records for "champions"?

    Backstage politics?


    What's the worst:fire

    In my own opinion, it'd have to be that we have at least 4 too many weightclasses.
     
  2. jonesjrp4p1

    jonesjrp4p1 16 yr old prodigy Full Member

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    HW division and ppv
     
  3. Danny Ocean

    Danny Ocean My nAmE IS MoNeY Full Member

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    ppv
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  4. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    to me, the worst is not the weighclasses or the way the "sport" is promoted, but the fact that the best out there don't always fight, the fact that the great and the good don't take on the hungry up and coming dangerous challengers, but prefer to polish off another has-been NAME, and that too many fighters are built-up artificially, and don't dare to be great by risking a loss in order to learn and put their best performace yet in.
     
  5. Danny Ocean

    Danny Ocean My nAmE IS MoNeY Full Member

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    fake press conference fights are awful aswel
     
  6. thewoo

    thewoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Bad decisions. Nothing is worse than knowing that some poor sap trained so hard and fought his heart out only to be robbed.

    Also boring fights.
     
  7. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    why do you think the fights are more boring these days?
     
  8. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Boxing no longer being mainstream.
     
  9. thewoo

    thewoo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I don't think that they are more boring now than they were before. Boring fights aren't all that common but whenever one comes on, it gives fans of other sports fuel in their arguments that boxing sucks
     
  10. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Problem then is there aren't enough fights, because, frankly, even if 2/3rds of fights are boring, but we have 3 high-quality exciting fights every week, no one would care, right?
     
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    Gary Shaw. he should give Diego Corralles family the money he owes
     
  12. China_hand_Joe

    China_hand_Joe Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    The capitalist, anti-european American boxing media conspiracy -fullstop-
     
  13. H .

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  14. In_FlaMeS

    In_FlaMeS K-BKois Full Member

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    The PPVs
     
  15. Decebal

    Decebal Lucian Bute Full Member

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    Do you reckon there was a time when there WASN'T a capitalist, anti-european American boxing media conspiracy? Because if there wasn't...well...that's just pro boxing for you!