Try finding footage of Jimmy Bivins and when copy and pasting them into the post, you misremembered a name. Not to bad? Yeah, well I wrote a full paragraph on one guy, realised I got it wrong, the wrote a full paragraph on the other! I realised how much of a nerd I am when I could recall facts and career details about Applegate and Anton Christoforidis.
Not nearly as often as @George Crowcroft! Honestly, I try to watch fights fairly regularly and when I'm in the mood for watching them. It's a hobby after all and I maintain no scholarly pretensions about it so if I feel like I'm forcing myself to watch something and it is becoming a chore, I give it a rest. I need to feel excited by a fight to watch it as I already have enough competing priorities on my time with work, family life and other interests. When the kids were very young I just didn't have the brain space but this forum has definitely resparked my interest. I wish I'd discovered ESB 10 years ago.
I agree; totally know how you feel. I forced myself to watch all 'needed' historical footage for all weight classes, but now my watching is extremely bipolar and, like you, I now only watch what interests me. Sometimes I wish I never discovered this place at all
1-2 fights a month, but I write deep dive technical articles and I've got 105 single spaced word doc pages of a book written on a complete-ish history of HW boxing since 684BC when Boxing was included in the 22nd Olympic games. Bit too busy almost always.
Highlight videos are a hoax. Do you see Rocky crossing his feet in highlight videos? Do you see him missing punches and losing balance? Exactly. Picture a Tom Brady highlight video. Would you see him throwing an inaccurate pass or getting sacked? Exactly. If you want to know the full picture of Tom Brady, you have to watch every single play of every game he has ever played. You want to watch a 2 minute video of him accompanied with a cute tune and good editing that shows some spectacular TDs? Go right ahead, just know you’re watching a hoax. Nothing is more damaging to a football fan than a Tom Brady touchdown highlight. People watching it thinks he never misses a pass, and they get corrupted by the drug of deceitful editing. It’s a dangerous world out there and I just want you all to be safe.
Highlight videos aren't a hoax. They can be a fun form of nostalgia and entertainment. Especially with slick editing and hair-raising music. But, yeah, they can be pretty misleading, obviously. If people spent more time watching Marciano's actual fights and less time watching his highlights, they'd have a much better chance of developing accurate, realistic assessments of his abilities, tendencies, and limitations.
Me and Gazelle Punch have rewatched all of Marciano's fights like 50 times, and are called the ones who overrate him I guarantee the ones detracting him saw Cockell, Moore and Walcott 1 once and called it a day
You arent a marciano detractor, you just have an overall lesser opinion of him than the status quo (which still gets under my skin from time to time), you dont irrationally hate
This obvious statement (aside from needing to watch highlights less in order to watch full fights more) is a far cry from stating that highlight videos are “one of the worst things for young fans.”
Yeah, that was probably a bit of an overstatement. It's not fair to blame the medium of highlight videos for the shortcomings of the many viewers who don't recognize how superficial and potentially misleading they can be.
Right, It’s not, and its mostly not misleading. The significantly vast majority of people understand that they are watching highlights. If you polled football fans with the following question: “Does a Tom Brady touchdown highlight video lead you to believe he never threw a bad pass?” What percentage of people would answer “yes”? Everyone with a minimum basic understanding of sports inherently get that they’re not watching a scouting report, but rather a display of feats.
Fack that's tough for me to read. I separated from my wife and moved out about 3 months after that post. It's been a very tough year for me. But I have watched a ton more boxing though!