Favorite Topics in Classic?

What my pal @red cobra and @Glass City Cobra said sums it up. I really like bio information too.

 

My favorite is revisiting real life fights, with scorecards and analysis....but they seldom garner much attention.

I also enjoy Threads on fighters that get very little attention, especially ones that intrigue me to dig a little deeper...

I avoid hypothetical h2h imaginary fights just because 90% of threads on here are about that and I find it tiresome anymore.

 

I'm a factoid kinda guy too mr. magoo!

 

If atg fighter 'x' was an atg Jedi, which atg Jedi would he be? I love that thread, even if it's inside my noddle and not actually a thing.

Jimmy Wilde is Yoda.

 

The ones where I learn something, especially a great fighter I have never heard of before, or where I need to be correctly sorted out. For example McVey introduced me to Jock McAvoy and John Thomas educated me about Jeff Fenech.

 

This is about the closest to what I enjoy too. I love our scorecard thread. I really enjoyed SaintPat's 'greatest round' poll, which kept us occupied and riveted for weeks on end. And like you, I love threads on fighters that fly under the radar. And mostly that pertains to contenders. I loved McVey's 'name the 30 greatest heavyweight contenders' thread. Things like that, that stray from the usual threads on the Dempsey's, the Ali's, et al. Start a thread on Jesus Pimental, Nel Tarleton or Bob Baker and I'm there.

 

lol, that’s what I am talking about! Not much out there on Tarleton (little snippets on YouTube) and now you have piqued my curiosity.

 

Pretty much the bottom line for me. The threads that teach me new information about a fighter or push me to do my own research. Which pretty much excludes most of the rankings and head-to-head threads...

 

A fighter that did what he did with only one lung can't be all bad.

 

I do like the heavyweights. It's my favorite division. So good discussions on heavyweight contenders and near-contenders of the past fascinate me. There was a poster a few years back who would do some amazingly deep threads about various boxers, but as I recall it turned out he was posting false information both here and on Boxrec.

I enjoy the threads that talk about various films, especially when Klompton contributes. What's out there and why is fascinating.

I also enjoy the threads that reminisce about boxing magazines. I used to have a six-foot bookshelf with nothing but boxing mags. Sometime back I let those go on eBay for too cheap. If I had the means and the space I'd collect them again. I find of-the-time reports interesting.

That's also why I like looking at old ratings, so threads about them are interesting. For instance, we now look at Cleveland Williams as a shot fighter (yeah, I know...) when he fought Ali. But he was like #3 in the Ring rankings going in. It makes you realized that some forgotten or dismissed fights were actually considered quite significant going in.

I'm not much on fantasy fights between guys that could never have fought each other; time machine fights. But I do enjoy things like the recent "George Foreman vs. Jimmy Ellis 1973" thread. If they could've fought, it seems more relevant to me. I do also enjoy threads about cancelled fights, like "what if Gerry Cooney and Joe Bugner had fought in 1981 as originally scheduled?"