Distracted Watching Boxing/Sports Poll

I do find myself at times getting caught spending more time seeing how people are reacting to the fight online than watching it myself!

 

i only tend to check my phone during the breaks between rounds. My problem is actually being so focused on the fight in terms of scoring, that "miss" most of the actual fight itself

 

I always try to join in on the General section RBRs because I don’t have too many friends who are genuine boxing fans. So I tend to post in those threads a lot during fights and while I try to avoid doing it during the rounds sometimes I’m finishing typing away and miss a few punches.

Put on a Crolla fight though and I’ll be easily distracted on my phone.

 

I check it between rounds to see how others see the fight going. If it's a replay I'm watching from an early morning fight then I'll swerve it completely. Easily done, I think

 

Yes - especially undercard fights if they aren't exciting. Even main events as well though. I find my phone has become a terrible distraction all of the time. I'm in a very bad habit of picking it up and checking emails etc every 10 minutes. Luckily I never really got into twitter but Facebook has been an issue. I don't even like Facebook and I only stay on there to keep up with friends and pictures but I found myself checking it constantly and scrolling down the same stuff in my news feed all day long. I sacked it off a few weeks back, deleted the app and logged out of it and I managed to quickly break the habit. At first I found myself going to press the bit of my screen where the FB app used to reside. It's all a bit scary when you think about it!

 

I nearly wrote that very thing in my reply - phones are literally an extension of us now. It's not good. And yes I watch / listen to JRE podcasts quite a lot, yet to see the Musk one, will give it a whirl, cheers

 

I tend to stay off my phone while the boxing is on because I don't wanna miss any of it. Then go online after the fights to see what ppl are saying about it.

In the RBR threads on the general forum, I've no idea how ppl are able to type a full paragraph of analysis in between rounds without missing some of the fight.

 

Lol I went mental at my bird the other day because I cancelled my FIFA session on her insistence that we watch a film together and then she spent a good chunk of the beginning on her phone. I was like what’s the point if you’re going to do that?

 

Wait, so you deleted all your accounts on social media altogether, or you just no longer sign into them during live fights?

Anyway, for me doing the RBR threads on here long ago desensitized me to multitasking with various browser tabs open and typing away furiously while simultaneously absorbing the flood of intake written by others in my periphery - but always keeping one eye squarely on the action, but what's more a problem is factors within my own environment. My ex-wife and current gf both had to learn the hard way that domestic life gets far less harmonious when they deign to interrupt me while boxing's on, and that making themselves as inconspicuous as possible (to such an extent that I can ignore their existence) is the best way to keep the peace.