Unless you know the ins and outs of the 1960s japanese flyweight division? Too many stinking casuals these days.
There are all kinds of fans. Some are into history and some only concern themselves with live events in the present. There are people on here that seem to monitor nearly every fight happening around the globe, and there are others who restore old film and write books about 1920s middleweights. Both are fans and exemplary for their dedication. They are just different kinds of fans. Myself, I'm not nearly that dedicated. I catch the fights of fighters who interest me and then if I hear someone else had a good match I'll check it out on youtube afterwards. Most prospects don't receive my attention before they capture a title. I try to watch older fights but I've got a long backlog of fights from the 70s to the 20s I need to catch up on. I don't even follow the amateurs.
U saying you have to be that old to be a boxing fan? Are we talking age now? I do not agree. Some boxing fan are interested in the whole boxing world since forever and some may be the younger generation that follows their own idol and not really care about the rest. They are both still boxing fans - regardless.
I'm sort of a casual in the sense that I'm a sport's fan first and foremost. When I was young I used to watch a lot of fights with friends in a particular bar in Australia ... play 8 ball (pool), drink beer, watch fights on a big screen ... Waters brothers, Jeff Harding, Fenech, etc. Kostya Tszyu was my favourite fighter in the ring and outside of it. KZ is also part Korean (as was my girlfriend/now wife). I also followed Tyson and HWs in general since I was a kid. But I never boxed except for as fitness training for other sports. I liked it, and at one stage I think I maybe would have had the fitness level to go 4 rounds. I did martial arts and sparred - had limited fights ... but wasn't really into it as a sport. These days I have been living in South Korea for going on 12 years now ... and because of the time zone and general access to fights I don't engage boxing as I did for a period back in the day. But I follow it, however I have almost consciously limited my interest to Heavyweights and Cruiserweights. This is just my preference - which is what it is. I will at times follow other weights if its a really interesting fight or it has an Australian or a Korean participating. I follow both pros and amateurs. There used to be a pool hall in Jayang 3 district (in Seoul) near my wife's sister's apartment where the bloke who ran it was into boxing and had fights on the big screen a lot. I'd play snooker with my wife's brother and sister's husband there quite a bit and catch random fights which was cool. But my wife's sister moved apartments and I don't really go to that pool hall any longer. So I appreciate boxing just as a sport , the framework of the history and the different fighters positioning themselves, and of course a fight when I watch it and see how it is playing out. I remember watching Wlad/Peter 1 and thinking Wlad was gone (not just from the fight but from boxing) only for him to stay in it and win. It's stuff like that that I can remember my exact feelings of the time even now. It's an enthralling sport at its best. But I don't have any detailed technical knowledge or deep knowledge of past match-ups and background context ... so I'm really just a casual fan of boxing however I follow this site and learn no end of good info from people who know it. The one fighter I have followed for a long while now is Usyk. Even with my limited perception of such things I can still see his skills and technical abilities pretty clearly. Probably the longest post I've made in 16 years on this site.
I have been a massive fan since the mid 70s I know **** all about the any Japaneses flyweights because most of those four decades we never had any access to that type of thing All we had was live telly and boxing monthly but I will take myself a step further in my quest for knowledge and learn more
I came here for information about square cardboard containers suitable for moving large numbers of items and so far I'm severely disappointed. What kind of a boxing forum is this?
The point being made is that casuals won`t even know who Harada is and have nothing to compare Inoue to which could lead to him being slightly overrated by some like Manny Pac who was a great offensive fighter to a large degree but didn`t have the defense of someone like Duran, fight fans in the 70`s who understood boxing wouldn`t have got carried away with Pac the way casuals did, Burt Sugar an old time fight historian rated Pac very highly but a few years ago alongside other notable pundits rated Duran as the greatest in-fighter of the last 30 years, that`s the kind of perspective modern casuals don`t have and also why a lot of American fans are getting carried away with Wilder.
I use youtube film studies to learn but I often credit then by pasting their vids under stuff that I say, I`m quite a modest guy, you can tell by my profile pic, all four of me!
Casuals champ is fast becoming Wilder or if your British Haye or Fury at least Mike was far better than those three.
This is awesome. Felt like a look back on your life through the memories of specific boxing moments. It's really cool to see that no matter where you are in the world, boxing can piece together parts of ones life. Really good read. Thank you for sharing.
