Would you be pissed off too?

i remember meeting up with the football team i run to go and play on the afternoon of the hatton/mayweather fight.a load of the local lads came past on their way to the boozers basically they had their day planned. on the **** all afternnoon and night then go somewhere to watch the fight.to a man they were all saying how ricky was going to win and they had money on him.they know i'm right into the fight game and one asked "what do you reckon ron about the fight".i replied "hatton'll get knocked out" they looked at me as though i'd just come out of the looney bin.it was as though i'd just made the most outrageous statement in the history of man,i did try to explain why,but i gave up half way through,because basically they were all football fans.

 

I get it a fair bit, it doesn't bother me too much except when I get into a conversation with someone who initially sounds like they know their stuff but turns out to be clueless...thats pretty frustrating thinking you might get a decent debate out of someone and then it goes pear shaped pretty quickly.

I guess it comes from a lot of people 'kind of' liking boxing without actually really being into it. I reckon boxing is in a lot of peoples top 5 sports but very fews actual favorite.

 

i think i'm like this now,as i don't know the scene anymore and have forgotten a lot of fights.

 

When I worked in a factory in 2002, everybody there who considered themselves knowledgable enough about boxing to have any kind of an opinion, found it hysterically funny that I said Tyson couldn't beat Lewis. They didn't laugh in a malicious way, it was just a natural reaction based on their obviously limited knowledge about the sport.

All it takes is for one pundit/newspaper columnist to say 'Stylewise Hatton's a nightmare for Mayweather', and the phrase can be heard in every pub up and down the country. I dare say none of the 'boxing fans' using this phrase had the faintist idea of what a nightmare Mayweather was for just about everyone he's ever fought.