As said it’s down to ‘your era’ as a fan.

Was late 80s up to early 2000s for me when I knew who everyone was, bought the Ring Magazine and spent hours sadly analysing the ratings and records, fights were on terrestrial tv (or at least on non-ppv subscription channels) and you used to get an EA Knockout Kings \ Fight Night game every year with all the main guys in it etc..etc etc

PPV events used to be better too (thought again that’s because it was my era) where for £15 you’d get a Hamed, Benn, Eubank fight etc from Manchester (often on the same bill) then at 4am in the morning you’d get a Holyfield, Lewis fight etc .

Nowadays I look at the Ring ratings and know who hardly anyone is – I’m having trouble recalling the name of the Ring Pound for Pound number one right now, some guy in one of the bantam weight type divisions I know that much !

Only active fighter threads I comment on now are Haye, Khan, Fury and Joshua. Don’t feel qualified enough to comment on others.

It’s also spread across too many channels and is costly – no wonder the casual fan is on the decline.

But then again it’s natural for older guys to reminisce about the glory days………