Having read numerous comments on this forum I find it funny that people both complain about boxing not getting enough mainstream attention, but then also complain when a fighter does get mainstream attention and draws 'casuals'. What do people really want?
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Ideally boxing needs greater mainstream exposure to draw more casuals, and then over time these casuals become discerning fans who demand the best fights.
When 99% of the fan base are casuals, then Arum can sell them crap like Pacquiao/Horn PPV. If half of the viewership were educated fans, however, that kind of garbage wouldn't fly.Comment
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Casuals are idiots who think of boxing as a combat sport where somebody gets hurt or knocked out. Real, hardcore fans are into deep skills where a guy doesn't get hit, even if he doesn't ever show effective aggression against his opponent. Grappling and head butting. Now that's boxing!Comment
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No one complains about a fighter drawing too many casuals. They may bring up the fact that certain fanbases are obnoxious because they're full of casuals. That happens. I love Pac but at the height of his popularity, this place was full of people who knew nothing about boxing, they were just hardcore Pac fans. I'm all for casuals coming and hanging out but when they argue like rabid dogs about shyt that they're clueless on, that's annoying.
No one wants to see fewer casual fans though.Comment
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The casuals are a necessary entity because they keep boxing relevant. A bulk of PPV purchases are made by casuals. The frustration is when casual fans, sportswriters, bloggers, and such become the voice of boxing and eat up the hype behind certain fighters. They become fan-boys and can't appreciate the fighters who have a few losses on their record or the history of the sport and the greats who fought in previous eras.Comment
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If you haven't noticed there is a lot of casuals on here who are fans of a couple of fighters and **** on everyone else.Comment
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If you listen to enough people you can never see any general direction fans are pointed in.Originally posted by Sincingship View Post
Personally I don't see THAT many people hating on the guys who get mainstream popularity, but even when they are it feels of more fanboy-ism for "their guy" vs some the more popular guy or just that hipster type sh^t where once some musical person or group gets too popular then they start hating them kinda thing if you've seen that before.
I'm more confused by the number of people who seem anti-one belt when that topic comes up although I don't think that's 50/50 or anything as fan fans do wanna see one champion, but there are more cats who support more than one belt than I'd like to see. I feel like boxing fans have been Stockholm syndrome'd into that nutty, to me, opinion as I've never seen much of a logical angle to that being good for the overall success of the sport. It tends to only be good for more fighters being able to make more money & promoters & networks being able to hype lesser fights as "championship fights".Comment
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