Originally posted by El Jesus
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I hear a lot of people complain about people nuthugging fighters, but that doesn't mean they're not a boxing fan. That's equivalent to saying, just because someone lives in Boston and is a rabid Red Sox fan they're not a baseball fan. Plenty of cynical people think you have to have decades of "insert sport here" knowledge memorized in order to be considered a "fan". I think if you like a sport enough to spend your own money on it, then that really is enough to call yourself a fan.
The thing about boxing is that people find fighters they enjoy watching and fighters they don't enjoy watching. It's common sense that they'll only pay for fighters and fights they'll enjoy. It doesn't mean they're not fans of boxing. Some people do take their favoritism of a certain fighter to the extreme, still it doesn't mean they're not boxing fans. I think it's just that hardcore boxing fans, in order to set themselves apart from the rest have narrowed down what a boxing fan is to the point that anyone who seems to favor a particular fighter much more than the other is not a boxing fan and only real boxing fans must like every style and every fighter regardless of how entertaining it is.
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