Is boxing your favorite sport?

[rjj tszyu]

Its not just my favourite sport, I'd say its an obsession. Every morning I get up an hour earlier than I need to so I can check what's going on today on here and fightnews etc. Then as soon as I finish work I do the same again. I have well over a hundred different Boxing history books (some are over 50 years old, passed down from my grandad), I get boxing News delivered every thursday morning and I used to also buy The Ring every month until I got fed up of reading previews to fights that had already been on. The family holiday has had to be cancelled and re arranged this year because we were flying on the 2nd July, not now, there is a small matter of David Haye vs Wladimir Klitschko which HAS to be watched live. It's bad enough that I can't go and see the fight in person because of this Holiday, I'm not watching it the day after too. We are now flying on the sunday night.

I hope and pray that the HW division comes back to life so that the general public start taking an interest again and boxing once again becomes a back page sport rather than a sport that gets one page a week at best. I've become a fan of David Haye, someone who if he was around in the days of Lennox, Evander and Tyson, I wouldn't have given much thought because I see him as a possible saviour of the worst HW era of all time. I respect the game of Wlad Klitschko but hate it at the same time because his safety first jab and grab style has made the general publics attitude towards boxing change to "if thats the best boxings glamour division has to offer I'm not bothered for it". And that is something I have heard a lot of people say. There is so much interest in the July 2nd fight because people want to see if Haye can get to his chin and detonate or at least be awkward enough to make Wlad change his style and fight. Not all the blame can be placed on Wlad though, the rest of the division are a disgrace (with the exception of Haye and Vitali), It's as though they have looked at the K Bros and thought "bigger is better" and just added fat to a body that should weigh 210-230lbs to make it upto 250-260lbs. But the Klitschkos are naturally huge men who are at their natural weight, which is why they are so hard to beat. The likes of Solis and Arreola (Arreola may have seen the light, only time will truly tell) could be much more serious fighters in the division if they just trained hard and ate properly. I'm not sure either would beat a Klitschko but they could certainly put up a better fight than they did if they were in real shape. I could get into lots of things that are damaging the sport I love right now, including PBF-Pac and the way every top fight is PPV, but I don't have time right now so I'll leave it with that. Rant over lol.

Yes you could say boxing is my favourite sport, I love football (soccer) too and my beloved Burnley FC do deserve a mention, but it is a country mile behind boxing. As a great man once said, What's so crazy about standing toe-to-toe with someone saying "I am"?

[Mars_ax]

Its not just my favourite sport, I'd say its an obsession. Every morning I get up an hour earlier than I need to so I can check what's going on today on here and fightnews etc. Then as soon as I finish work I do the same again. I have well over a hundred different Boxing history books (some are over 50 years old, passed down from my grandad), I get boxing News delivered every thursday morning and I used to also buy The Ring every month until I got fed up of reading previews to fights that had already been on. The family holiday has had to be cancelled and re arranged this year because we were flying on the 2nd July, not now, there is a small matter of David Haye vs Wladimir Klitschko which HAS to be watched live. It's bad enough that I can't go and see the fight in person because of this Holiday, I'm not watching it the day after too. We are now flying on the sunday night.

I hope and pray that the HW division comes back to life so that the general public start taking an interest again and boxing once again becomes a back page sport rather than a sport that gets one page a week at best. I've become a fan of David Haye, someone who if he was around in the days of Lennox, Evander and Tyson, I wouldn't have given much thought because I see him as a possible saviour of the worst HW era of all time. I respect the game of Wlad Klitschko but hate it at the same time because his safety first jab and grab style has made the general publics attitude towards boxing change to "if thats the best boxings glamour division has to offer I'm not bothered for it". And that is something I have heard a lot of people say. There is so much interest in the July 2nd fight because people want to see if Haye can get to his chin and detonate or at least be awkward enough to make Wlad change his style and fight. Not all the blame can be placed on Wlad though, the rest of the division are a disgrace (with the exception of Haye and Vitali), It's as though they have looked at the K Bros and thought "bigger is better" and just added fat to a body that should weigh 210-230lbs to make it upto 250-260lbs. But the Klitschkos are naturally huge men who are at their natural weight, which is why they are so hard to beat. The likes of Solis and Arreola (Arreola may have seen the light, only time will truly tell) could be much more serious fighters in the division if they just trained hard and ate properly. I'm not sure either would beat a Klitschko but they could certainly put up a better fight than they did if they were in real shape. I could get into lots of things that are damaging the sport I love right now, including PBF-Pac and the way every top fight is PPV, but I don't have time right now so I'll leave it with that. Rant over lol.

Yes you could say boxing is my favourite sport, I love football (soccer) too and my beloved Burnley FC do deserve a mention, but it is a country mile behind boxing. As a great man once said, What's so crazy about standing toe-to-toe with someone saying "I am"?

Good read rjj tszyu, wow you really are obsessed with boxing, and I thought I was bad. Hey it's all good man.

cheers