Quote Originally Posted by TyBuff
Quote Originally Posted by Tiger J
F*** judging the fights. I enjoyed the show. It was the bomb.

The Contender was a way for regular people to get into boxing. The sport itself is dying. Think of it as one last chance to bring it back into the mainstream. Don't whine like a girl because it was edited. Theres plenty of non-edited boxing for you to blow your load on.

I probly would have liked non-edited matches better, but it didn't take away anything from the show. I enjoyed all the crazy a** camera angles, the Hans Zimmer score, and the final round in which everything depended on. It made it look as if the person you were routing for had an equal chance at the final round, even if he was getting his a** handed to him the entire fight.

Regular people who don't know S*** about boxing call it boring. The Contender gave the average person Gatti/Ward style fights.
Calm down. I did not say that I didnt like the show or that it took anything away from the shos. I liked learning about the boxers and their lives. That is what made it so interesting. I personally did not like watching the edited fights. I would have preferred watching the fights in full, and I like all of the little things that happen during the fight not just the punching, the feinting, head and foot movements, etc. I understand that the show was not geared toward the purist boxing fans, but more towards getting nonfans interested in the sport again.

And not all of us are able to watch current fights on TV. The only way I get to watch any fights is to buy it or download it.
I never said I was able to watch current fights on TV. I have to download them too, or catch them on TSN a week after they air (I live in Canada). The last live fight I saw on a TV screen was Manfredo vs. Sergio.