Boxing fans appreciate the past more than other sports. Reasons?

because this era is weak as ****

 

There's no way I'll watch a 90 min football match again but a 45 min fight that's got action is good for me plus when you hear commentators and fighters like Mike Tyson talk about the old timers seem fascinating.

 

Not more than baseball. A lot of it has to do with age of the fan base.

 

Because people are hyper critical/ hypocritical....they don't appreciate talent at the time always comparing to past era's they never experienced stating fighters that fought 6 times with each other were great...bs

 

good fights are always worth re-watching

 

I'm a die hard baseball fan, and that group loves the past. I've spent hours talking baseball with my buddies. Certain numbers carry such weight that they don't need to be explained.

However, we are much more likely to read books or watch documentaries than watch an entire ballgame. After all, baseball achievements are typically accumulated over long periods of time.

Because there are no hard numbers to quantify a career in boxing, it is completely different. The greatest fighter of all time (SRR) lost several times. Undefeated fighters are often jokes (Ottke, Joe Cal).

Plus, fights offer condensed action. I can watch the 4 most significant Marvin Hagler fights in the same time it would take to watch one of Willie Mays 3000+ games.

 

And years later, people will go back and watch the likes of Jones Jr., Pacquiao, Mayweather, Marquez, Morales, Barrera, Mosley, De La Hoya, Forrest, Martinez, Hopkins, Ward, Froch and many others. Great fighters/fights are always worth watching.

 

Fans of anything, not only sports, always praise the past. Whatever it is people will praise the classic "hardcore" version.

 

Boxing fans are the most hardcore of any fans in the US so I'm sure they be fiending to watch fights, with YouTube it's so easy to watch 3 fights everyday, think about that that's a 1,000 classic fights in a year. I think I would watch Raiders games if it was easier, occasionally I'll watch a game from my collection but even than I half watch it.

 

I love youtube. Having the ability to pull up classic fights, or watch the majority of a past great's career, is awesome. It has made me a more knowledgeable fan.

 

Boxing is the only sport I can watch.

 

ldldldldldI've been old enough to really appreciate boxing since the mid-80's and I would love nothing more than to have a new era where the fighters were the equal of any of the best periods I've witnessed,so it's not down to nostalgia.
I think the fact that before cable and PPV, you could see the very best at least some of the time on terrestrial TV,so it was far more of a mainstream sport and we could relate more to the participants.
There were poor periods in the 90's too.
We don't just say it was better because it sounds good.

 

because every fight is a part of history