Do you make an effort to create *new* boxing fans...?

[elcolibri]

...by hosting a group to watch a fight and inviting people that are curious or don't know anything about the sport?

...what other things do you do to help along a new / potentially new fan?

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

I've tried. People are so fucking stupid, though.

Maybe someday I'll come across some dudes who are intelligent enough to display interest in something other than themselves.

[killersheep]

I've basically given up on the notion that I can get new people into the sport. I've done the PPV hosting thing, paid for it all myself provided food and alcohol. I have a few friends that enjoy the fights, but I haven't experienced someone who never was into boxing suddenly enjoying it. For the most part, my boxing parties end up with most people in the kitchen just having a good time.

[Slim the BoxingManiac]

To be honest, they need to be taught the basic skills and how the game works before they even begin to understand it at all.

[elcolibri]

To be honest, they need to be taught the basic skills and how the game works before they even begin to understand it at all.

That's a good point.

If anyone shows the slightest interest I've tried to encourage it. Sometimes I try and explain how the sport has been around so very long, and talk about historical olympic games. Sometimes I try and explain that there is more to it than it might seem. The response I never know what to do with is when someone dismisses it in a clearly judgmental way as just way too violent. (Any sport is violent! It's just more hidden in most other sports.)

[Manos de Piedra]

I agree with you guys above. You can't get someone into boxing you can introduce them to the sport, if someone is interested they'll become a fan themselves.

[Abelardus]

I always try to get people into boxing I order fights, I talk about it tell people things I know about the sport I even go as far as showing people basic things about boxing with mitts and shadow boxing or sparring. but to get people to be fans its pretty difficult people just want to see knockouts not an entire fight Or they're just into other sports.

[Violent Demise]

...by hosting a group to watch a fight and inviting people that are curious or don't know anything about the sport?

...what other things do you do to help along a new / potentially new fan?

Fuck no. Ain't my job to get people into it. If anything the stupidity of some of there questions makes me want to choke them out.

Why he wearing yellow gloves and not red like everybody else?

Cuz he wants to. No rule says they have to be red.

But there yellow. Why he pick yellow?

What difference does it make? There fucking gloves

Well I don't like yellow. And i hope he loses

I doubt he cares. And he ain't losing

OMG he's wearing yellow shorts too

Get out. Get the fuck out bitch.

[Hulk]

...by hosting a group to watch a fight and inviting people that are curious or don't know anything about the sport?

...what other things do you do to help along a new / potentially new fan?

Fuck no. Ain't my job to get people into it. If anything the stupidity of some of there questions makes me want to choke them out.

Why he wearing yellow gloves and not red like everybody else?

Cuz he wants to. No rule says they have to be red.

But there yellow. Why he pick yellow?

What difference does it make? There fucking gloves

Well I don't like yellow. And i hope he loses

I doubt he cares. And he ain't losing

OMG he's wearing yellow shorts too

Get out. Get the fuck out bitch.

hahaha

[Spicoli]

Used to have get togethers but got tired of fools yelling "Just hit him....man if I was in there I'd be hitting his ass" Also I can't stand people drunk yelling at the tube...I need to concentrate People are attracted for different reasons and you have to consider who your talking to so as to not run on and on only to make their eyes glaze over...bore em to death

[Saddo]

...by hosting a group to watch a fight and inviting people that are curious or don't know anything about the sport?

...what other things do you do to help along a new / potentially new fan?

Fuck no. Ain't my job to get people into it. If anything the stupidity of some of there questions makes me want to choke them out.

Why he wearing yellow gloves and not red like everybody else?

Cuz he wants to. No rule says they have to be red.

But there yellow. Why he pick yellow?

What difference does it make? There fucking gloves

Well I don't like yellow. And i hope he loses

I doubt he cares. And he ain't losing

OMG he's wearing yellow shorts too

Get out. Get the fuck out bitch.

funny stuff hahahahhaha

[boozeboxer]

...by hosting a group to watch a fight and inviting people that are curious or don't know anything about the sport?

...what other things do you do to help along a new / potentially new fan?

Fuck no. Ain't my job to get people into it. If anything the stupidity of some of there questions makes me want to choke them out.

Why he wearing yellow gloves and not red like everybody else?

Cuz he wants to. No rule says they have to be red.

But there yellow. Why he pick yellow?

What difference does it make? There fucking gloves

Well I don't like yellow. And i hope he loses

I doubt he cares. And he ain't losing

OMG he's wearing yellow shorts too

Get out. Get the fuck out bitch.

Sounds like VD's weekend with the kids.

[boozeboxer]

I don't think there is enough access to good boxing matches to keep even myself interested hardcore in the sport. By this I mean every day looking over matches, outcomes, projections, in comparison to other sports which often have great matchups scheduled that actually occur when they where scheduled.

I love boxing and will always watch it, but I no longer care who is ranked #8 in the WBC.

The belts really have ruined it. At least in other sports you have a champion at some point.

[Andre]

To the ones who say; How can you watch two men beating the hell out of each other ? I cant understand how anyone can find enjoyment in that.

I tell them they can only see whats going on right on the surface.

Fighters and real fight fans can see underneath it all and they watch it because it can be as intricate as a game of chess except with real consequences and the consequences effect performance just as much as their emotion, heart and will holding together all their skills.

Then there are levels and styles and something deeper called being in the zone.

[killersheep]

I don't think there is enough access to good boxing matches to keep even myself interested hardcore in the sport. By this I mean every day looking over matches, outcomes, projections, in comparison to other sports which often have great matchups scheduled that actually occur when they where scheduled.

I love boxing and will always watch it, but I no longer care who is ranked #8 in the WBC.

The belts really have ruined it. At least in other sports you have a champion at some point.

The WBC doesn't even care who's ranked #8, other than the fact that they can bestow upon them the Copper Belt.

I agree that the lack of functioning structure takes away from the sport in a big way. There are still great fights and great fighters, but the context of where it all fits in the sport as a whole is seriously lacking.