What constitutes being a real boxing fan? Article

1) You can be a boxing fan only following one division. If you only follow the HW division, or the flyweight division, is it not boxing you are still following? Compare it to football, nobody would challenge the hooligans we have here as to not being football fans as they are diehard supporters of specific team, however I doubt many of them follows anything other divisions other than the premier/champions league.

2) We dont have those channels here in England. Even if we did, where do you draw the line? Should I say "a real boxing fan" has to watch every pro fight that exist in the country, missing one means youre not a real boxing fan? How much boxing you watch is irrelevant, if you follow the sport or know of its fighters, you are a fan.

3) You can be a fan and a **** analyst. Again comparing to football, you can support a crap football team and be confident in their abilities predicting them to win, yet somehow they still manage to loose each week. You are following the sport of football, wether you get who the winner is or not is irrelevant, youre still a fan. Same goes for boxing.

4) Theres a difference between being a boxing fan and being a boxing historian.

5) I agree.

Because boxing is such a cult sport, its being turned into somewhat an "elitist" comp between the fans. Playground stuff. "nananana, I know more about fighters from an era nobody gives a **** about now than you!".

 

In Jolly old England, all they show on the Telly is either English Football (Soccer) where the teams play for 5 hours, 0-0 is the score, and it's a good cure for insomnia, or perhaps darts. Thats what I want to watch Saturday Nights, a bunch of drunken Englishmen throwing darts at a pub without any women.

1. You gots to know whats what in ALL divisons, mini flyweight, or minimumweight, to the Heavyweights.

2. Too many idiots like you on "Fightnight" at Fight parties across the nation who I have no patience for. If they can sit and watch the fights and keep their mouths shut, it's fine, but when they start to have an opinion, and they dont follow my sport, I put them in line faster than the Queen would bitchslap Charles if he started sassing her.

3. If you know the sport, you can predict certain things. Take last years fight, Mayweather-DLH. Money May was light years faster with about equal reach, and younger. He was also superior, technically, and knew how to neutralize Oscar's jab,which is 80 percent of his gameplan. I took $$$ from, the sportsbook. same thing when Hatton fought PBF, PBF owned him in every single aspect, and as such it was an easy night for the Superior Black Athlete.

4. I am both. I can school non boxing fans on the present, the past or the future in boxing.

 

I could sit with this man, and watch and analyze a fight.

 

Easy for me . . . it you can admit that your favorite fighters can lose to other fighters then you are a real boxing fan and not just a fan of specific fighters.

 

that one cracked me up. i bet floyd is a tripod too while the white hatton is anatomically challenged down there.:rofl

by the way jack, what could you say about my prospect fighter rene ganoy? who'd you pick between him and ali funeka in a fight? how about ciso morales, he's a prospect, not yet seen in ESPN, how'd you see him in the future?