To those who grew up without constant footage to watch...

Im young, so every fight iv wanted to watch has been readily available for me. But honestly I feel it makes me value them less. Knowing I can rewind the video or rewatch the fight at any time makes me pay less attention. I cant imagine the focus you’d have if this was the ONE time you could see a fight. But I am thankful for modern technology allowing me to view the legends of the past.

 

Yea man I get it… I can only imagine what it was like watching Fraizer vs Ali 1 with your boys on the couch. Sounds amazing. Hopefully we get someone to come save boxing like Tyson did.

 

There's a charm in getting to be the salty old ******* who remembers when things were harder and less easy to access. It DID make you really appreciate it in real time though. My weekend was built around getting to watch televised fights on free network TV, and I knew almost to the day when the different boxing magazines would be on the newsstands. It was a delicious sort of ritual, one which I remember really fondly and I feel sorry for the younger fans who nowadays don't get to have that amazing sense of anticipation.

 

Every old person I talk to NEVER fails to mention “Saturday night fights” which sounds so cool… the boxing revival better come real soon.

 

But yeah, I like watching any and all old fights whenever I want on YouTube. Love that.

It's not a bother to me that I no longer have that sense of anticipation because I don't follow modern boxing and can't see the sport through the same new eyes anyway even if I did follow it.

 

That's precisely what I do, yeah.

 

Yeah man I remember those days, in fact I was just looking through some of my old boxing magazines and was shocked to see famous managers advertising with their address and phone number, looking to book their Fighters, like Lou Duva, Manny Steward, people like that.

In response to the op, I've been a boxing fan for 50 years now and I was very lucky when I was young because my father had some of the earliest betamax machines available and he had loads of fights on beta tape that I got to watch whenever I wanted which was awesome.

But there was nothing like the excitement of a live fight!

 

You're probably getting to see a lot of great classic flights for the first time, there's nothing like seeing them the first time.

There is so much great classic boxing available for free these days and in the best possible quality, it certainly is a good time to be a fan in that regard that's for sure.