Joe Bugner set to announce ring return at age 63

[Fenster]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

Terrestrial TV wont make any difference to how huge Joshua will be if he goes to the top. They couldn't afford him anyway.

[Britkid]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

There is another upside to boxing then. Because it was not all on TV (even as you mention, some very big fights), it made you as a fan go to more fights. Also back then you had some mystery in the sport. You read about some of these exceptional fighters, but you rarely got to see them, so when you did it was a special moment. I do miss that part of the sport...

[Fenster]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

There is another upside to boxing then. Because it was not all on TV (even as you mention, some very big fights), it made you as a fan go to more fights. Also back then you had some mystery in the sport. You read about some of these exceptional fighters, but you rarely got to see them, so when you did it was a special moment. I do miss that part of the sport...

I can understand that. However, I would much rather give an opinion on something that i've actually witnessed than "repeat" someone elses view.

Just 10 years ago, when I joined this site, I would wax lyrical about fighters I'd hardly ever actually seen. I now think that is embarrassing. These days I watch videos of "great" fighters, my heroes, but don't see them as the supermen I once thought.

I see boxing as a horrible cynical business. I have no heroes. Yet I love it more than I ever have.

[beenKOed]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

There is another upside to boxing then. Because it was not all on TV (even as you mention, some very big fights), it made you as a fan go to more fights. Also back then you had some mystery in the sport. You read about some of these exceptional fighters, but you rarely got to see them, so when you did it was a special moment. I do miss that part of the sport...

I can understand that. However, I would much rather give an opinion on something that i've actually witnessed than "repeat" someone elses view.

Just 10 years ago, when I joined this site, I would wax lyrical about fighters I'd hardly ever actually seen. I now think that is embarrassing. These days I watch videos of "great" fighters, my heroes, but don't see them as the supermen I once thought.

I see boxing as a horrible cynical business. I have no heroes. Yet I love it more than I ever have.

My father used to tell me, "Boxing is a business little buddy, don't forget it." Like you I didn't fully appreciate what that meant until I was much older.
He would never go beyond that statement, I guess he didn't want to turn off my interest in boxing or open my eyes too soon.

[smashup]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

There is another upside to boxing then. Because it was not all on TV (even as you mention, some very big fights), it made you as a fan go to more fights. Also back then you had some mystery in the sport. You read about some of these exceptional fighters, but you rarely got to see them, so when you did it was a special moment. I do miss that part of the sport...

I can understand that. However, I would much rather give an opinion on something that i've actually witnessed than "repeat" someone elses view.

Just 10 years ago, when I joined this site, I would wax lyrical about fighters I'd hardly ever actually seen. I now think that is embarrassing. These days I watch videos of "great" fighters, my heroes, but don't see them as the supermen I once thought.

I see boxing as a horrible cynical business. I have no heroes. Yet I love it more than I ever have.

My father used to tell me, "Boxing is a business little buddy, don't forget it." Like you I didn't fully appreciate what that meant until I was much older.
He would never go beyond that statement, I guess he didn't want to turn off my interest in boxing or open my eyes too soon.

Same as I was told, and it is ... it really is business/organised crime first.

[beenKOed]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

There is another upside to boxing then. Because it was not all on TV (even as you mention, some very big fights), it made you as a fan go to more fights. Also back then you had some mystery in the sport. You read about some of these exceptional fighters, but you rarely got to see them, so when you did it was a special moment. I do miss that part of the sport...

I can understand that. However, I would much rather give an opinion on something that i've actually witnessed than "repeat" someone elses view.

Just 10 years ago, when I joined this site, I would wax lyrical about fighters I'd hardly ever actually seen. I now think that is embarrassing. These days I watch videos of "great" fighters, my heroes, but don't see them as the supermen I once thought.

I see boxing as a horrible cynical business. I have no heroes. Yet I love it more than I ever have.

Come on, Fenster! I can't get those last two lines out of my head. If boxing is a horrible, cynical business then there must to be villains in boxing. If there are villains, then there have to be some heroes too. There are people and orgs in boxing who are trying to deal with everyone honestly and fairly. I don't know who they are, but you should try to find them, they are the heroes you seem to be missing and mourning.
Your Challenge for 2014, Sir Fenster of Saddoboxing Land, is find us boxing heroes. Do not fail us, in your Challenge, for we all need heroes.

[smashup]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

There is another upside to boxing then. Because it was not all on TV (even as you mention, some very big fights), it made you as a fan go to more fights. Also back then you had some mystery in the sport. You read about some of these exceptional fighters, but you rarely got to see them, so when you did it was a special moment. I do miss that part of the sport...

I remember my mum waking me up at silly o clock to listen to the radio commentary of Bruno/Tyson live.

With the I internet stream sites these days and of course youtube we can access pretty much any fight live so thats brilliant for us lot.

I do miss those terrestrial tv days though whete every man on the street would know about the next big fight and it was openly discussed on the same popularity level as a big footy match

Even though I dont need to pay for boxnation they (Warren) deserve props for what they've created.

They go hd with a slight price hike on the Fury/ Chisora bill on Sat for those that didnt know.

[beenKOed]

Thank fuck those aren't still the days. Imagine being told Froch-Groves II isn't being shown live anywhere.

Bruno was a huge star at the same time snooker players could get top ten singles in the charts. Obviously due to only having four channels. Back then we "watched" virtually every international fight through print. Fuck that. These days are fantastic for boxing.

Terrestrial TV wont make any difference to how huge Joshua will be if he goes to the top. They couldn't afford him anyway.

Not with HBO and SHOWTIME around. HBO seemed like a great idea when it first came out.
When the airways were taken private everyone knew how things were going to turn out, eventually.