Why i am a boxing fan.

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My girlfriend asked me a god question the other day.
Why do u like boxing? She then went on to ask, why are u on that silly boxing website everyday, and why do u spend $50 dollars every second sunday to watch 2 guys punch each other? Why do u get up early or stay up late to see resu;ts of fights from overseas?
She made th4e pint that none of my mates particularly like boxing, there are no local fighters of note, and why cant i be normal and just like football like everyone else.
Im sure other guys on here have had similiar questions asked of them, and i hope they came up with better answers than i initially did. Alli could say is i liked boxing cos its 'awesome'.....

It got me to thinking tho. Why am i a boxing fan?
Here is what i come up with. I like watching fights cos it seems like the purist form of battle, two guys using their fists to sort out who the better one is. I like boxing cos of the diversity of characters u see i mean take this for example.
The heavyweight champ is a well educated well spoken 6 ft 7 giant from the Ukraine. The guy everyone wants to see him fight is a self assured, hard hitting londoner, who wouldnt look out of place ina rap video. U could hardly get 2 different ppl.
I love the way u can never be sure who was gonna win in boxing, when both fighters are world class. In just the last six months i was positive Pavlik would beat Hopkins, DLH would beat Pac, and Margarito would destroy old Mosely. Boy was i wrong and i was happy for it.
The lead up to a big fight excites me more than any other event, i get goosebumps when Buffer or any other bigtime ring announcer introduces the combatants and they dont usually go away til there is a clear winner, i like shouting at the tv when the ref misses something, or chewing my nails when one of my favourite fighters is in a close contest.
These are some of the reasons im a boxing tragic and i'd like to hear why some of u other ppl are fans.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

tell her you're gay and you like watching two semi-naked men go at it.



I'm going to have an agony aunt page.

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tell her you're gay and you like watching two semi-naked men go at it.



I'm going to have an agony aunt page.

Sorry for trying to start a thread that doesnt involve fighter A ducking fighter B, etc etc

[Howlin Mad Missy]

tell her you're gay and you like watching two semi-naked men go at it.



I'm going to have an agony aunt page.

Sorry for trying to start a thread that doesnt involve fighter A ducking fighter B, etc etc

You're welcome.

[Trainer Monkey]

Simple,its chess with fists.
Both fighters have to try and outhink the other while under extreme duress.
I like baseball for the same reason,I appreciate the strategy of the pitcher vs the hitter.
In boxing its rarely about just being able to whomp the other guy,youve got to outhink him as well.

[HattonTheHammer]

i was brought up as a kid in a football dominated society but remember getting hooked on the sport at a very early age.

It causes excitement any game or sport cant quite live up to because no game of footie/NFL etc will ever match the intensity of 2 world class fighters beating the living hell out of eachother.

Those few moments before the fighters enter the ring...the passion....the intensity....the raw emotion you feel just cannot be simulated anywhere.

You dont have to ask yourself why you love the sport because millions also do and even those that dont still get excited about big fights because boxing represents something that just cannot be matched in everyday life!

[Manuel "Chubby" Medina]

Simple,its chess with fists.
Both fighters have to try and outhink the other while under extreme duress.
I like baseball for the same reason,I appreciate the strategy of the pitcher vs the hitter.
In boxing its rarely about just being able to whomp the other guy,youve got to outhink him as well.

A Chess game..thats a godoway to put it
I also think that its not juzz fightin its all technical studyin the other guy puttin a plan together and then executing it.
It really proves who is the better man on that night.
Its a good feeling.

[bikersk]

My girlfriend asked me a god question the other day.
Why do u like boxing? She then went on to ask, why are u on that silly boxing website everyday, and why do u spend $50 dollars every second sunday to watch 2 guys punch each other? Why do u get up early or stay up late to see resu;ts of fights from overseas?
She made th4e pint that none of my mates particularly like boxing, there are no local fighters of note, and why cant i be normal and just like football like everyone else.
Im sure other guys on here have had similiar questions asked of them, and i hope they came up with better answers than i initially did. Alli could say is i liked boxing cos its 'awesome'.....

It got me to thinking tho. Why am i a boxing fan?
Here is what i come up with. I like watching fights cos it seems like the purist form of battle, two guys using their fists to sort out who the better one is. I like boxing cos of the diversity of characters u see i mean take this for example.
The heavyweight champ is a well educated well spoken 6 ft 7 giant from the Ukraine. The guy everyone wants to see him fight is a self assured, hard hitting londoner, who wouldnt look out of place ina rap video. U could hardly get 2 different ppl.
I love the way u can never be sure who was gonna win in boxing, when both fighters are world class. In just the last six months i was positive Pavlik would beat Hopkins, DLH would beat Pac, and Margarito would destroy old Mosely. Boy was i wrong and i was happy for it.
The lead up to a big fight excites me more than any other event, i get goosebumps when Buffer or any other bigtime ring announcer introduces the combatants and they dont usually go away til there is a clear winner, i like shouting at the tv when the ref misses something, or chewing my nails when one of my favourite fighters is in a close contest.
These are some of the reasons im a boxing tragic and i'd like to hear why some of u other ppl are fans.

Very nicely put. The one on one aspect has always been a draw card for me and that coupled with the fact it's a fight and the stakes are sooo much higher than most other sports in a physical sense. Boxers are some of the fittest toughest guys in sport. I started watching when I was very young and loved Sugar Ray Leonards Golden Gloves on early in the morning here. Everyone else in my family would be asleep and i'd be up watching that. When the fights used to be on free to air TV we used to all sit and watch the Fenech fights and cheer, great memories.