Thread: The sport of boxing... THE REASON WE WATCH!

Boxing is an amazing sport. Should you be a fan of other sports which I assume all of you are understand this.

Boxing is unlike any other sport due to the fact (all the cliches... Man on the island... Man on man... Whatever) that it's two warriors that MUST... I repeat MUST know themselves very well. Know themselves better then their opponent.

Other sports... any of them are drastically dissimilar. In American football or baseball we have "rebuilding years" but they will regain over the course with draft choices and fresh blood.

In boxing we have to be satisfied with watching a fighter... Our hero, rise, become a champion and decline... It is a beautifully sad dance that has happened for centuries.

As fans we're forced to deal with that...

No better fight to show this fickleness of boxing fans was the Pavlik Hopkins fight.

I have always been an avid Hopkins fan yet have fast become a huge Pavlik fan.

I have watched Bernard come from a Jackal to a Possum ... It was an amazing journey but I thought that the journey would end with Pavlik as did so many Hopkins fans. Turned out he also could become a wolf.

I, as a huge Hopkins fan chose against him with Pavlik. I was wrong... But Hopkins is anomaly...

Boxing forces... It forces you to be fickle... It's part of the game.

I am a huge Jones fan but I think Calzaghe will win a wide decision...

Will I be wrong twice? I hope so....



(Just so you all know I think Joe is an amazing fighter so don't barrage me with pro Joe comments but Jones is a clear cut ATG)