How often do you watch Boxing?

Agree..
The past is sometimes a nicer place to visit.

 

Alot on u tube , plus whatever sky throw up . I sometimes focus on one fighter , maybe follow or start a thread on here then watch his career through as many fights as I can see. Interesting the things you see now, that youd forgotten. Example, my recent Carl Williams thread etc...
Sometimes a fighter is better than you remembered or vice versa...

 

I do a lot of binge watching, and then I like to go back and re-score old fights. Their are so few decent fighters these days I only watch a few, I use to watch current boxing all the time, now it's mainly older fights. I do a lot of reading online, magazines for me are a thing of the past, but once a year or so, I do dig out all my old Ring mags and go through them and a few other boxing mags I had.

 

Most of my mags, articles, books are squirrelled away in the loft as I don't have accessible space available since I got married and my son was born. The same for my old fights, though I flogged off a good chunk of my film collection during a period a few years back when I wasn't interested anymore. A pal who lives nearby had a beast of a collection and a library of lit so I put on him whenever I want anything new.

I struggle for time these days even though I'm able to nip on and off here fairly regular, and my interest waxes and wanes quite dramatically. I don't have enthusiasm for the current stuff other than a few lower weight fighters these days but have forced myself to try and keep up with it to a degree. I've stagnated in terms of learning new stuff in recent years, be it any era. I work longish hours in a busy, physical job, do a bit of voluntary work and try to keep on top of my garden.

My son is currently being diagnosed for being on the autism spectrum,which is quite an arduous process and has involved a lot of reading and educating myself. I had a bad turn recently with hypotension that knocked the **** out of me and has left me wanting to do little other than sleep most of my free time, so I don't get to watch too many new fights or revisit old ones. My wife went out the other night for a family do so I watched the Lomachenko fight with a few bottles of Hobgoblin after the boy had gone to bed.

 

Mew fights, I only watch the very top guys as the rest are terrible and even some of the top ones are bad.
But i am always watching old fights on youtube and wherever I can find them, just now getting into the lower divisions that i missed when i was younger.

 

Ive spent most of my life in & around boxing I used to live for it.
Ive done most things in the sport, boxed myself, helped train others, covered boxing in the south mainly for 2 or 3 mag sending in reports on fights. I loved every minute. BUT!!
Today boxing is not the sport it once was. They said boxing was corrupt in the 50's with the Mob & the Mafia but they were apparantly more like choirboys compared to the corruption in the sport today. Today the robberies , Ped's abuse etc are blatant They dont have to try & hide it any more. Like all the big fights in Vegas no one expects to see a straight down the middle honest fight any more The State commissions turn a blind eye to it all. The cash cows that make them the $$$$$$$$$$ must not be allowed to lose
I'm glad I'm just a fan these days a fan of the old days when boxing was the sweet science. I never thought I'd see the day I'd advise a young talented boxer NOT to turn pro but concentrate on a career outside. Not too many people in boxing today are rich. Not honest ones anyway

 

Some days I want to watch boxing from the 70s to 90s all day long, and I'm dead serious, all day. I've had like a month's worth of days like that since I got back into boxing. I don't usually go full days without watching or at least looking up something about boxing, and I guess my semi-ubiquitous presence proves that lol.

 

Yes, unfortunately today’s game is getting worse by the day. Sometimes I think it’s a blatant case of the powers that be trying to water it down to the point where when a semi-decent fight comes the public sets themselves. Three networks feeding mismatches and of course rigged fights are perhaps more common than ever.

It’s funny my friends start to sigh and complain when they ask for my picks because I often say “this guy will win the fight lost the decision”, even though I was right with that happening in Canelo-Golovkin fights, Kovalev-Ward, Fury-Wilder they still say I’m full of BS and conspiracy theories when I see even if Kovalev wins against Canelo he’ll lose. It’s very blatant and the problem is boxing as a sport has catered to boxer fans not boxing fans so the fanboys don’t care about the fight or the action they just want their guy to get the “W” and don’t care if it’s blatant and then they go all over the internet to brag about how they are so amazing because their favorite boxer is the best. The dirty politics of the sport have made it this way and it’s getting worse.

That’s why all the real insight and knowledgeable fans of the sport you’ve got to find in smaller forums where they talk history because the current scene is crowded with fanboys who don’t know or even like the sport.

I still watch all the fights but I definitely find myself caring less about the “big ones” and going to less fights because of the above. It’s sad what it’s become.

 

I watch almost every event thats televised even if its just the main event or a hot prospect on the undercard. I occasionally go back and rewatch a favorite of mine

 

Far far too much...

There's a moment, one moment, where you have a revelation and you think to yourself "what the **** am I doing now". Mine was scouring the internet for tapes of Paul Berlenbach and other assorted LHWs.

 

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