Boxing: Love it, Hate it or Love/Hate it?

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  1. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Just reading an old Harry Mullan editorial (Britain's Boxing News), and he had a theory about boxing fans getting more cynical as they got older. So as a whole (today and yesteryear) what is overall opinion of the sport?

    Read carefully before answering, shame I did not, before pisting! ;)
     
    TBooze, Jul 21, 2010
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  2. RockysSplitNose

    RockysSplitNose Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    JUst because nobody has yet - it's been since the night of McGuigan-Pedroza until now - and I am just completely obsessed with boxing - just love it - there is nothing like it sports wise - boxing is just awesome and the history? well - and this Forum??!! And all you guys???!!! I love you all man!!!! No I mean it!!? It's true!!
     
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  3. Addie

    Addie Myung Woo Yuh! Full Member

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    :good Best Sport in the world....I love it.
     
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  4. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I admire your spirit, it is people like you who keep this sport upright, whilst the likes of myself try to make it take a standing eight.
     
    TBooze, Jul 21, 2010
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  5. Gesta

    Gesta Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Love it for Duran/Leonard 1 , Pacman/JJM , Floyd/ Coralles etc...

    Hate it for Floyd/JJM , Haye/ K Bros , Aussie boxing (Mundine/Green) etc...
     
    Gesta, Jul 21, 2010
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  6. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    I got to agree with Mullan; sadly I fear you and Cat_funt will be lost to the game soon. Your eyes have been opened to the dark side of the sport too soon!
     
    TBooze, Jul 21, 2010
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  7. Gesta

    Gesta Well-Known Member Full Member

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    :lol::lol::lol:

    Hope not, I have grown to love this sport, but will not be taken for a fool, so I will buy the good PPV and boxers carrer sets, but not the ****ed up cards like Floyd vs JJM.
     
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  8. TBooze

    TBooze Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    To a point I was damn lucky that as an 10 year old, I got to go to see that bout. But much like being a Liverpool fan, I got to see the dizzy heights of the sport far too soon, and thus sadly did not really apreciate what I was seeing.

    Hindsight is a *****, and I so yearn for them days, when boxing created national (mainstream) heroes.
     
    TBooze, Jul 21, 2010
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  9. lefthook89

    lefthook89 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    love the sport, HATE the fans. honestly, fans are whats killing the sport. nobody cheers on fighters anymore, all fighters are ridiculed for the dumbest reasons for fighting certain comp, not getting into unnecessary slugfests (the running label), dont have mike tyson like punching power or a marvin hagler chin. i mean im as far from a klischko fan as you can get, but even i think once in a while the hate they receive is somewhat unwarranted. you cant go on ANY youtube boxing vid without seeing some flame war started by a couple of dumb asses. on ESB you cant at all voice your opinion without being ridiculed. so basically, if 75% of the boxing community can grow a brain then it can be more of an appreciated sport.
     
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  10. reznick

    reznick In the 7.2% Full Member

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    yea boxing fans at arenas expect waaaaaay too much out of fighters
     
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  11. sweetsci

    sweetsci Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Love the history, love the buildups to great fights, fights when they are great, love the effort and sacrifice made by the fighters. Hate the boxing politics, organizations, corrupt rankings, and generally the way the powers that be allow boxing to shoot itself in the foot. I hate this part of it so much that I've recently been tempted to leave boxing behind.
     
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  12. djanders

    djanders Boxing Addict Full Member

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    20 + years and love it!
     
    djanders, Jul 22, 2010
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  13. ThinBlack

    ThinBlack Boxing Addict banned

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    After 20 some odd years of enjoying the sport, am at the hate stage now.The lack of 15 rounds, too many organizations, and Floyd Mayweather Jr, enough is enough.
     
    ThinBlack, Jul 24, 2010
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  14. Swarmer

    Swarmer Patrick Full Member

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    I've been a fan for less than a decade and I really really love it.

    It is in serious deadly need of reform though and the problems are so obvious that anyone can see it.
     
    Swarmer, Jul 24, 2010
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  15. Bonecrusher

    Bonecrusher Lineal Champion Full Member

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    20+ Years and still LOVE IT!!!
     
    Bonecrusher, Jul 24, 2010
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