How much do you REALLY know about boxing???

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I am just wondering how some people get their information on boxing....

I mean how long have you been watching the sport, how many fights have you really seen be it in person or video, have you ever really been in a gym other then a few times hitting the bag...Do you actually know any fighters and that does not mean third hand because you know a guy who knows a guy.....Can you actually get into a debate on a fighters career without having to look at boxrec to see if they won or lost a fight?....

Seriously though I am wondering because it seems so many people these days actually know little about boxing itself other then what they get off the internet yet they will try to debate things as if they know it first hand...

EG- When someone says Fighter A wants X amount of dollars to face Fighter B and a ring size of 16X16...But Fighter B states they wont fight in a ring less then 20X20..

Where do you get your info from?...Website, ESPN, chatroom, Reliable news source like a newspaper or do you get it from Forums and gossip columns

It what you are saying based on REAL boxing knowledge or all second hand info

I haven't been watching boxing very long (since about 2005 I think), but I feel my opinions are legitimate. I've been in a boxing gym, I've sparred, but that is as far as I've gone in regards to competing. I don't know any professional fighters, but I do know an amateur Canadian National Champion . Kinda.

As for the news I get regarding the sport, the only other site I regularly look at aside from Saddo's is Fightnews. I occasionally peruse Boxingtalk for the interviews, but they're so ridiculously biased that almost everything on that site is useless.

I don't think the legitimacy of someone's argument or the depth of their understanding of the sport is predicated on experience or the result of years of study and I certainly do not buy the elitist view that someone needs to be involved "in the buis" (sorry, couldn't resist) to have a deep understanding of the game or to formulate solid opinions.