Its the funniest thing. I know the outcome but I still get anxious right before the bell rings! I watched Roy vs Toney again the other day and laughed at myself as i started tapping my foot right before the fight. I'm not sure any other sport has that effect on me.
This has never happened to me while watching a fight that already took place but it happens most of the time right before a fight that's about to take place.
Yep -- adrenaline pumping -- holding breath -- ducking, bobbing, weaving in place -- calling out instructions -- and then WTF Boo -- this fight was 20 years ago -- and you've seen it 9 timesatsch
all the time especially if i rewatch all the prehype vids as well. just the other week i watched ali/liston 1 and saw all the trash talk leading up to the fight then at the sound of round 1 I kept thinking to myself Liston is going to F*** him up even though i already saw it and knew the outcome. Heck I got anxious for re-watching Rocky IV the other day.
Not often. Only happens with certain exeptional fights. Cotto vs Margarito was an epic and that happens when i watch that back. however watching Mosley Vs Mayweather live...when Shanes music came on and he started to walk the isle i felt like i could have a heart attack i was so ready for that fight!
@Oli: This happened to me when i watched Forrest Mosley I "live". My heart was in my mouth literally. I was devastated when Shane lost.
I feel the same way. Also, I prefer to stay up to watch the fights live (I'm from the UK), I feel that it's not the same as going to bed and leaving it recording because I'm watching stuff people have already seen and the outcome has already been decided.
foreman-ali, corrales-castillo i, gatti-ward i, trilogy of marquez-vasquez (4th one doesn't do anything for me), pac-cotto, pac-dlh, pac- mab, pac-morales ii, ward-kessler, donaire-darchynian, douglas-tyson, holyfield-tyson i, bowe-holyfield (i,ii, iii), hearns-leonard i, cotto-torres, mosley-dlh i, mosley-margarito
I kno the feeling, i also had it before dela hoya vs Mayweather, fast heartbeat and anxiousness! **** knows what the actuall fighters go thru! lol I was a bit upset after Cotto Vs Clottey when Clottey didnt get the decision! I couldnt stop thinking about it for the whole next day. Not because i wanted Cotto to lose because im a big Cotto fan, but i just honestly felt Clottey deserved it that nite and thot he had been screwed