How many fights have you seen?

Much more than I can count unwillingly, since my father is a huge fan, much less that I wish consciously as I have an awful habit of rewatching certain fights religiously instead of exploring new horizons.

 

No idea. Probably not as many as I might be tempted at first to guess.

My first was Ali-Dunn in '76 when I was eight.

 

I mostly watched heavyweight fights, it all started in 1999 with the fight Wladimir Klitschko vs. Axel Schulz, I was 9 years old and I don't know the exact number of fights I watched, but it's quite a large number...

 

Haven't had much too long to watch fights, but I've been hooked ever since I started. I typically watch a couple a day, so I should at least have a couple hundred under my belt so far.

 

Hundreds of thousands.

I was a fan for 12 years before I even got a VCR in 1987 to record what I was seeing. And, back then, they were showing multiple fights nearly every weekend, if not also on Tuesday and Thursday nights.

When I got a VCR, I began tradinng tapes every month with guys from Europe who had NTSC to PAL converters. And I'd just ship tapes to them every month and they'd send tapes to me. So I was watching a ton from Europe before the internet came along.

When the internet happened, I started collecting fights that we would share on FTP sites. Then sites like Youtube and torrent sites began, and I started collecting and watching them on there.

During these years, I also wrote for boxing sites and attended live fight cards that often started in the afternoon and ended close to midnight.

So thousands upon thousands if not hundreds of thousands. Far too much.

Luckily, though, I never became one of those guys who obsesses over getting the absolute most pristine known to man copy of a fight ... and end up collecting 30, 40, 50 versions of the same fight ... trying to find the absolute most perfect quality. Those guys fall down a rabbit hole and some never come out.

They don't even follow the current sport. Just collect the same old fights over and over and over and over and over again ... looking for a marginally better picture quality version.

Just trying to remain current and up-to-date on what's going on in the present can be challenging enough.

And the more fights you watch, the less you know, of course.

 

1977 fights, only started watching in 2017

 

17,358.

 

That was the last fight Ali predicted what round he would stop his opponent. He wrote it on a piece of paper and put it in his glove. It was also his last stoppage.

 

I remember watching Ali on Wide World of Sports, for free.

Our Ameteur head guy used to take some of the boxers down to Cobo Arena to watch Kronk Fight Night. I wish I knew what happened to those programs, many autographs. I'll always admire that Kronk Gold. (Long Remember Galaxy, doe.)

I watched ESPN bouts since it originated, USA Tuesday Night Fights.(I was actually scheduled to fight on one of their shows should any of the two 10 round matches on the card end in a KO. I was interviewed by Shawn and Marv. Fought a crazy tall guy originally from Africa.). Cool experience.

I remember watching Arturo Gatti at the 90'(or so) PAL National. My coach had told me to watch him. I don't recall if Gatti won it all but he kicked ass in the bouts that I saw. I also fought with a great guy who stepped up and fought Shannon Briggs, it didn't end well. Still a great guy doe.

I started watching boxing on early, early cable tv: On ON TV,. when I was like 10. Early 80s Kronk was featured from Cobo Arena.

I grew up with the Kronk gold.

I was asked to join Kronk by their PR guy. I had agreed to go with him to Mrytle Beach, with his family, as a sparring partner for his son. He was the funniest guy that I have ever met.

 

Oh blimey loads.
Some stand out in the mind more than others of course.

 

More than 5 thousand.

 

No idea. A lot. I grew up watching boxing with my dad, who never missed any fight on TV. I make a point to watch all the standard DAZN cards and usually order their PPV cards, need to get more of the ESPN+ cards into my rotation.

Fun TV tip -- while the cheapie huge Samsung TV's look like dog**** when watching action movies (way too much ghosting), they look totally fine when watching most sports, including boxing. We have a high end OLED tv in our bedroom, and whatever the cheapest 75in Samsung was on Black Friday last year in the living room. Watching movies, the OLED tv is better by about three country miles. Watching boxing? Honestly, I can't really even tell the difference.

 

Counting old films, television, in person, way too many to count. Most were Professional Heavyweight fights, but many from lower weight classes, also, and quite a few Amateur fights (mostly in person). I even served as an official judge/scorer in some Amateur fights.

 

From about 2013-2020 was when I ordered the most PPV fights. Each event had at least 4-5 fights, and I would order at least 1-2 of them every year I think. So if we're just talking about ones I paid for, at least 56 fights.

If we include YouTube, man I don't even know. Maybe another 40-50? I would binge watch on the weekends, with friends, after work, during work lol.

In person I've seen about 20-30 maybe. I went to a a few amateur matches, including my brother's.

So probably something like 140-150 fights.