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I've been following this sport for roughly 90 years. After everything I've seen, I still watch it. I doubt if I'll see anything worse than I've already seen, so I think it's a safe bet that I'll continue watching it in the future.

 

There’s a number on how many “Incident’s” before I’d give up becoming a boxer. No number on how many before I’d stop watching.

 

Most viewers. But me, no, I’d keep watching if they know it’s going to happen and they fight I’m going to enjoy it.

 

It's sad stuff. It's deeply, deeply unsettling to put yourself in the shoes of fallen boxers this is why I love this era. Give them all that money, they're earning it with a coin flip of there health every time they step in the ring, the law of averages looks less and less kind with every fight and spar. But it's an old story and these brave gents know the trade off to take a chance at immortality in boxing.

 

As long as there's boxing, I'll be watching - though if every fight card included a Vitali-Briggs fight, I might change my mind. It doesn't happen very often, but that was one fight, that made me feel quite uncomfortable!

 

I'm a lifer. I thought McClellan-Benn would do the trick but it didn't. Ruelas-Garcia didn't either.

The wages of life are death.

 

We’re men, we crave violence, especially at the highest level. You think we watch boxing the same way another person watches sports like soccer or basketball? If boxing somehow got more brutal then I’d watch it even more.

 

If it hasn't happened by now, I have a hard time envisioning what more would need to happen for me to turn my back on it.

Of course, I don't engage in boxing in the present day, and that separation probably helps quell any moralistic issues that might have come up.

Oh, midgets. Probably midgets.

 

A guy's head would have to fly off

 

I wouldn't mind hearing more about the shadyness in boxing. Heck, it's something that Paulie Malignaggi knows: these fighters on PEDs not gonna judge them for who's cocktail is more better than the next guys elixir when it comes to peds. I also wish breadman would talk more about disturbing news he knew about fighters. Heck even if it's bad publicity, I would read it

 

No matter how brutal it is, I don't think I'll ever stopped watching. That's what we crave for when we watch the sport.

 

Boxing has always had a bit of tug of war with society and moral acceptance going a long ways back.

It seems it has always been very much a pleasure for a sufficient number but an intellectually deemed “guilty”pleasure.

As with some other frowned upon industries, we can ask, would fighters fight if we didn’t pay and watch? Likely not.

It’s all about the money and boxing has allowed for many an individual to lift themselves out of the bog - but often the price at the other end is awfully high and sometimes tragically so.

We could consider also that it may not necessarily be about the consequences of boxing getting worse - rather, we are better informed - boxers like Bowe might’ve been otherwise hidden away and not be seen after the mental rot and physical disrepair had set in - kept away from public view.

In the new media age we often see boxer’s decline unpack before our eyes - declines which are far more prevalent than what might’ve been believed some decades prior.

Even to see a younger Ali pressing down his nose and bending his ear to imitate a punch drunk fighter while saying that would never happen to him - (viz fighting beyond use by date) - is very depressing to see in hindsight.

I mean, if even the greatest exponents of the sport are vulnerable and often fall prey to the dim post career future of the inadequately skilled club fighter - it does make one wonder about how many true happy endings there are relative to the non fairy tale endings.

 

That is a long time, lucky you. You have seen all the past greats, I have been watching pro boxing since 1965, along with College and Pro Football, Major League Baseball too.

 

So, Amir Khan vs Tommy Hearns is your limit.