I've been a boxing fan forever and for years and years I would watch, record and study every fight, from 4 rounders to main events, because I just love boxing. I can enjoy just about everything that goes on in a ring; one of my favorite fights is Del Flanagan vs Sandy Saddler, for tactical reasons. I don't mind seeing an early ko if somebody does something intelligent to make it happen.
I don't follow recent fights so much because of years of paying to watch supposed top level fighters and finding out that they can't fight much. Watching two muscle bound guys stand toe to toe and swing haymakers bores the hell out of me. That's just 'fighting' and, while 'boxing' sometimes becomes fighting, they are not the same thing.
Give me two guys that know how to fight, that hit and don't get hit, trying to outsmart one another, really working, that's boxing.
One of these days, instead of going on'line to watch Olivares and Griffith and boring old Archie Moore (more kos than anybody else), I'll get around to watching mayweather.