What type of Boxing fan are you?

[rjj tszyu]

I'm a serious boxing fan in that I watch all the fights I can and believe I know enough about the sport, but I don't pretend to be as hardcore as some nor pretend that I spar. I am very much like Larry Merchant except I am younger. Just an enthusiastic follower of a sport that he loves and a fondness for the occasional tipple.

Your a good man Miles.

Well, seein as we all belong to a boxing forum where we talk about and bitch about and argue about boxing all the time...

I'd say we are all BOXING NERDS.

I pretty much agree with this. I try and see all the boxing I can and I like nothing more than watching a good tear up regardless of size/weight. Anyone who doesn't find the smaller weights interesting should look back at people like Finito Lopez and today Juan Palacios and Nkosinathi Joyi. These can all bang and are good to watch.

I must say I'd love the HW division to be the strongest division though. But that is more due to the state of Boxing. If the HW division is thriving then so is boxing. Unfortunately for us it is not.

[Rantcatrat]

Probably A. Big-time boxing fan. I watch most of all the big fights. At the lighter weights, I watch the big fights between guys like Donaire, Darchinyan, Mares, Agbecko, etc. I have boxed and want to get back into it. Boxing is my favorite sport, bar none. It's still just a sport though in the wide range of things in life, but it's my favorite one.

[brocktonblockbust]

I'll watch any goddam fight at all whatsoever. If I even see 2 drunks scuffling on the corner I run over to watch. I even watched some shitty-ass Korean broadcast last year involving some suck-ass level fighters in some kind of international Inter-Asian Boxing Federation or some suck-ass shit like that, and some lout-ass tosser's name was something like Shukhroz Abdulloyev.

[Dropanuke]

I'm a serious boxing fan in that I watch all the fights I can and believe I know enough about the sport, but I don't pretend to be as hardcore as some nor pretend that I spar. I am very much like Larry Merchant except I am younger. Just an enthusiastic follower of a sport that he loves and a fondness for the occasional tipple.

Your a good man Miles.

Well, seein as we all belong to a boxing forum where we talk about and bitch about and argue about boxing all the time...

I'd say we are all BOXING NERDS.

Agreed!!!!

[Matias64]

Donaire is impressive indeed but generally i'm not keen on bantamweight or ligher of that. I guess since Carlos Monzon, Sugar Ray Leonard, Duran, Hearns and Haggler fights i've always appreciated welterweight-middleweight. However some divisions like light middleweight and light wealter seems to be housed with more or less those who can't match at all punchers like Pacman and Mayweather.

I like both Felix Sturm/Amir Khan/Andre Ward-style technic boxing. But can't help addmiring Donaire, Pacman and Bute fighting. Generally it's better to have fights with different styles. I don't agree with argument that good fight is always blood and knockouts. E.g Sturm-DLH fight (2004) was one good example you can enjoy the fight with no knockouts and Gatti-style brutal bloody faces.

[Master]

I was an avid fan and nearly missed my own wedding to stay up and watch Tyson v Holyfield 2. I use to record any boxing that was on and have mountains of tapes that I have never re-watched. Slowly I have been out priced by boxing and am only interested in watching the very best. Very rarely do I buy PPV, haven’t in many many years. A B I think.

[marbleheadmaui]

I'm an A.

Still crazy after all these years.

[Master]

I'm an A.

Still crazy after all these years.

Yes, but what about the boxing.

[Dave Hughey]

When I was 15 and weighed 149 I was a welterweight fan. Now I'm over 200 so I guess I'm a heavyweight.