Why i am a boxing fan.

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Tha to everyone for their feedback, positive comments and rep.
Its good to hear some other views, and i thought itd be good to start a different kind of topic to all the type we've had lately where everyone just seems to wanna bag every fighter out.

[iwng100]

Good question. Why I like a silver car but not a red one, why I like black pants or gray sweater; I really don’t know.
BoomBoom said “Its combat, its art, it creativity” Ok I agree, but why this kind of combat, why not another art?
Trainer Monkey gave us a good definition: “its chess with fists”, yes but why we like chess with fists? It’s quite impossible to answer.
We like what we like.
Anyway for some of us could be just a matter of habit, we watched boxing for long time with ours daddies, or we have a big brother boxer, etc.
We just got habit with it like Australians with rugby and Americans with American football.

[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.

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.

I was kind of thinking along these lines
I'll use one of my own fighters as an example,my wife no less.
Against Cheryl,she was the obvious better physical specimen(no offense Cheryl,you know F.I.S.T. loves you)but she got cocky in there against Cheryl and stopped looking at the board the chess pieces were on,and Cheryl made her pay for it.
Boxing is one of the sports where it isnt enough to be the better physical specimen,youve also got to out think them as well

[Spicoli]

The individuality of the boxer,A character study inside and outside of the ropes.Every fight is a unique experience,even if only in the smallest of ways.Seeing a fighters thought process unfold during a fight,and the immediacy of each counter move,As mentioned prior...a definate pugalistic chess match.There are no teammates to fault when things go fubar...just you to shoulder it.A metaphore for life I say.Also boxing has a 'secret society' Feel .You have to stay up and we dont have double didget networks dedicating endless hours every single weekend.

The mutual comrodary between Boxers,ecspecially at the end of a stiring fight.For the most part,they can be spitting venom before the opening bell only to embrace,show respect and talk it up after wards.Of course not in every case .Boxing has giving me more than I can ever hope to give back to it,the reasons are endless as to why I follow this sport.Seems every year though,the number gets larger.

[johnsebastianmiran]

I havde always enjoyed boxing ever since the Gillette shaving people used to put on those Friday night fights when I was a child. My grandmother used to sit there every Friday and watch intently. I used to sneak out of bed and position myself behind the couch and watch all the greatest fighters go for that big prize and a chance at the big time. I was caught on many occasions and I started to protest my bed time on Friday nights and duck a whipping too. When I was old enough I was a decent featherweight but that was a long time ago and when you know first hand what these guys go through, you are not an ordinary fan. Thou art a fanatic and bring the fish and chips and bring the pizza and beer before the fight starts and plant your behind down and go to the bathroom between fights and not between rounds. The guys in that square hear your cheers and jeers because they know you are watching and they live for that and as a fan, so do I. I've got cable now and I still position myself in the living room but the couch and the remote are in my control. They are mine so until next weekend this fan is pumped up.

[ukansodoff]

Its a gladiator sport, nobodys got a better engine, nobodys got 14 team mates to fall back on.

Yes you get your tactics, your training, your corner men, But when that bell rings its just you and him in the ring in the same size gloves, only your talent and hunger to prove to everybody your the best.

Fuck me if that aint the best thing in the world i dont know what is. I just love sport and competition and in a fight its usually cut and dry as to whats happening. no ifs, no buts just fight it out, only 1 winner.

and as mentioned its just so simple, 2 men with gloves on goin for it, but its not is it, it really is at times like a game of chess, punches, counter punches, southpaw and all that. you know your boxing you can see all that happening infront of your very eyes.

but then you get 2 deranged animals in the ring who just wana slug it out like wild men. No chess there, no skill, no tactics as such, and yet just as entertaining if not even more so.