With the Olympics being over... and there being a lull between big fights... I've succumbed to the same boredom as others, and have begun paying attention to some interesting stats.

The most popular board is, and has always been, "Boxing Talk" of course. But the distance between that board and the non-boxing boards I believe has narrowed over time. I have no stats from the past, but I remember "Boxing Talk" threads and posts outnumbering those of "Off Topic" and "Let's Get It On" by about 4 to 1, or something of that nature. But the gap has closed. Currently "Boxing Talk" has about 34 thousand threads and 703 thousand posts. If you add the two non-boxing boards together, they have roughly 14.6 thousand threads, and 282 thousand posts. So "Boxing Talk" has basically 2.3 times the number of threads, and about 2.5 the number of posts. In other words, the non-boxing boards are catching up. What does this say? Probably nothing... except that maybe the forum has become more of a social forum and less of a boxing one.

Granted... there are many noteworthy threads in the non-boxing boards. Stuff on the Olympics... the elections... politics... sex (always a good one)... important issues like gun control.... etc, etc.

But.... there's also a lot of threads such as:
"Well... today I scratched my ass."
Or.... "What do you like on your salad: pickles or cucumbers?"
Of course... there are the typical battle-related threads, such as: "Who's better p4p: the Michelin man, or the Pillsbury dough boy?"

Oh well... whatever keeps the forum going between fights, I guess. I myself have participated and even started numerous threads that have absolutely zilch to do with boxing. After a while it just becomes a cyber-neighborhood where us saddo'ers come to chat.

But that reminds me:
Who would win a fight between the Statue of Liberty, and the Motherland Statue in Russia?