3 most annoying things in boxing

- football songs at boxing

- ‘lucky punch’ whenever a Matchroom fighter gets beat

- ‘it’s not women’s boxing, it’s just boxing’

 

The funniest thing is casuals can see things from a distance with more clarity. Look at the amount of so-called "experts" who talk nothing but absolute bollocks and can't pick a winner to save their lives. They don't even realize they can't see the wood for the trees.

 

In no particular order:

• The importance of "not quitting" - and the punishment fans and rivals expect boxers to take. Sure, boxers have to be tough and endure stuff non-boxers wouldn't dream of. There's a big difference between a dishonest pro retiring early and a serious injury though and many just don't seem to get the difference.
  
  Take the abuse Dubois got for taking a knee with a fractured eye socket. Yes, he quit, but so the hell what? He protected his eyesight, gave his future career a chance, and took a big picture view. I'd rather see Dubois take the L v Joyce and regroup, not as a blinded "what could have been?" fighter. The likes of Carl Frampton on BT came out with nonsense afterwards questioning his credentials and heart.
  
  The same applies to BJS. He was stupid enough to dish out the abuse to others beforehand, and of course he couldn't continue with a fractured eye socket. He helped continue a problem that came to bite him in the ass. Karma, sure, but the problem isn't BJS. It's the culture that quitting is bad. It isn't that simple.
  
  
• Balkanisation of boxing. So many weight classes, so many sanctioning bodies, rival promoters, rival TV companies. UFC has many failings, but Fury v Joshua would have already happened in UFC.
  
  This leads to the big fighters cherrypicking their preferred terms, catchweights, unfair clauses, etc. Canelo has had a good 12 months with his mostly fair contests v Smith, Yildirim and BJS. Now he's cherrypicking Bivol, seemingly at a catchweight. I remembered why I didn't like him now.
  
  
• The cost of watching top level professional boxing, even on the TV, is too high.
  
  Yet those who try and change the model get absolutely hammered, almost as if there's an inbred loyalty to Sky Sports within many fans.
  
  DAZN, Sky (+ PPVs), BT Sport (+ PPVs), Fite PPVs are all out there now, plus Channel 5.
  
  For the buck, Mick Hennessy and Channel 5 probably put on the best TV cards in the country - not the most glamorous, but brilliant matchmaking. Ziani v Dilmanaghi was the best fight I've seen in ages. Yet all I see on his social media and on here though are references to his weight and how small time his shows are compared to Matchroom.
  
  DAZN is being seen as an unwelcome intruder. Sure, I share the cynicism about Matchroom and Eddie's shameless publicity bandwagon. But I don't get why people oppose this newcomer vs the incumbents? I see Sky and BT as hugely overpriced. DAZN won't be £1.99/month for long, but it isn't going to be £60/month either.
  
  Sky especially have milked fans of football, F1 and boxing over recent years, all while their rights have dwindled and their product has got blander.
  
  I welcome DAZN and hope they pick up enough rights to let me cancel Sky and BT once my contract's over. DAZN + overpriced day pass for Now TV / monthly passes for BT for the occasional events I want to see will prove way cheaper.

 

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1. Hype - and worse, the fact I still get caught up in it. Been watching boxing all my life and at nearly 50 I still end up forking out for PPVs far too often. The nadir was probably Bellew-Haye 2

2. The way boxing in the UK is turning into the WWF Superstars of Wrestling from the 80s, where the weekly shows are knockabout for the 'names' until a big event forces them into a half-decent scrap (and even then, you can just about bet on the outcome). It didn't work in wrestling and won't work in boxing.

3. The totally forced 'street' attitude of certain hype-job boxers, just to try and build up a casual audience on social media. Conor Benn and Shannon Courtenay are by far the two worst offenders but Fowler and his CBD sales come close enough. Benn was nothing like that when he started his career, and I'm sure a wee wad of money (since he's not quite "PPV baby" just yet) won't have done that to him; he wasn't exactly hard-up, to begin with. All an act.

 

"Sweet Caroline"

The PPV model.

The amount of Arse Licking the Sky lot do.

 

1. Povetkins hair - very annoying
2. Anything that comes out of wilders mouth
3 . Fans on this board who think Andy Ruiz could beat razor ruddock

 

Definitely too many belts.
Area, British, European, Commonwealth, WBC WBA.
Isn't that enough ?

 

Ricky Hatton thinking he’s a stand up comedian.

Kugan not being on some form of register by now.

 

He would literally tell all Mannings jokes word for word. Really really strange how he didn’t get brought up on it during that tour thing he did.

 

The phrase 'go out on his shield' is dreadful, as is the risible notion that a boxer being 'angry' in the run up to a fight is any indicator of his prospects. This kind of rhetoric is grist to the mill of people who want the sport banned and when a high-profile fatality occurs the press will have thousands of examples of boxers talking this kind of nonsense to bring up. Anyone who relishes a boxer being seriously hurt is not a sports fan at all- they are just an appalling human being who lives out their frustration through the efforts of others.

 

Appreciate your point, but Eddie Hearn is a narcissistic ****.

 

1 . The american privilege. Ie .. mediocre US fighters like charlo getting everything handed on a plate and corrupt judging in his fight with Castano. Haney getting given a title by email. Biased reporting by US media not acknowledging foreign talent Etc most of the pro boxing infrastructure is corruptly bent in favour of the US to make casuals wrongly believe americans are the best at boxing.

 

Here goes:

- trash talking
- inactivity
- too many belts
- football elements
- immediate rematches
- fans moaning about bad fights (there are tons of things to appreciate you obviously can't clock you t**t
- Sweet Caroline (yank baseball song.. Embarrassing)
- Campbell Hatton (you're a manc we get it..)
- women's boxing (WHY!?)
- scruffy spectators (dress accordingly you sweaty tramp)
- casuals ignoring the undercard

 

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