Boxing is the current casual viewer landscape

**Master** · 10-23-2010 08:40 PM

Casual fans know Amir, Hatton, Galzaghe and Haye. Maybe Audley but that is probably all.

**armin** · 10-24-2010 02:22 AM

Don't really have any friends that are into boxing and most think I'm f*ckin lame when I stay home on a saturday night to watch some fight. Most everyone knows the name mayweather, pac and odl yet really most have never seen a fight of theirs. A few people know the klitschkos,pavlik. However mention the names marquez, bradley, katsidis and all you would get is blank stares. A few friends are big time into mma and have been at their house a few times to watch the big ufc cards, and usually they only like the fights where a dude gets knocked out, and I'm like you'd get a lot more of that in boxing. Boxing in recent years just has been marketed all wrong and espn rarely reports on it so it doesn't help the cause.

**Andre** · 10-24-2010 03:44 AM

Out here theres a certain mentality amounst casual fight viewers, In pubs many are either after watching someone get ktfo in a heavyweight match or they are flag waving cause a localAussie is going for some two bit world belt.

I like to go to the RSL's Returned Services Leagues to watch fights that are bought in, because you get better real conversations with much older fans.

Trouble is two of the older ones i used to go with,both ex pros, are now dead and the others havent got it in them any more through health issues.

**Spicoli** · 10-24-2010 05:30 AM

Have a couple who try and know some names. Seems at least once every couple of weeks I get some guy in the coffee shop asking "So Tyson huh...think he comes back as champ again"

I once wanted to smack them...but now I say "HELL YEAH, If I were you I'd bet all I had on that happening"

The absolute worst is sitting with crowd watching fight and always some knob screaming "Just hit him". Never fails. By the 5th round they are playing with the cat or talking about how much they liked Tyson.