Which current boxers do you refuse to watch and for what reason?

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Very few actually. Its not a case of my refusing to watch them, its more a case of not having any interest in the particular fight or the particular division, rather than the particular fighter.

 

same here

 

Sergio Martinez...is not that I REFUSE to fight him...is that I just don't care for him.....

 

sounds like an excuse for ducking him to me!

 

Flyweights and below.

Too small and shitty looking...

 

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Same here, although i can appreciate Jorge Arce.

Also i have no interest in seeing Andre Ward fight.

 

Here is the thing- I don't care a whit for Andre Ward, but I will watch his fight with Froch. If Froch beats him and signs to fight, say, Dimitri Sartosin, I won't watch it. If Ward wins and signs to fight Bernard Hopkins, I won't watch it. It's not a case of individual fighters for me.

Maybe its different over here- watching fights can be expensive and usually involves staying up to the small hours of the morning, so the fight has got to be compelling and interesting to me.

 

those saps north of cruiser

 

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it's usually the matchup for me as well, I used to not watch Chris Byrd when he was fighting no-hopers... because what's the point? But i would watch him fight Golota and Klitscko's, Ike, Tua, etc etc.

I refused to watch John Ruiz fight after one of his matches where, for the first time, i was embarrassed to say i was a boxing fan because of him. literally the most disgraceful fighter i have ever seen

 

dont worry. i dont think any less of you because you choose to watch that horse shit, sweet heart

 

It's sweetheart, not "sweet heart" ::

If you veto entire divisions, you are going to miss great fights.

Part of the reason why I skip the midget divisions is it involves being up till all hours to catch a fight.

In fact I think I have only watched 5 Welter-Weight fights since Hatton vs Mayweather. That took place in late 2007. The 4 fights were Margarito vs Cotto {TV}, Margarito vs Mosley {TV} Pacman vs Cotto, Margarito vs Pacman {stream} and Berto vs Ortiz {stream}.

 

as neil said, heavyweights

and that's pretty much it i think

 

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:: That came out all wrong....I don't care for Martinez....I would watch his fight if there is nothing else to do...and if i miss it I won't go crazy looking for a video of it.

 

I don't lose any sleep over missing a Hopkins fight

 

I never used to feel that way- I used to try and get my hands on as much Hopkins stuff as I could- since he left 160 and exposed himself as a one-trick pony with a nasty personality, I've gone completely off him. You know its bad when you are hoping that a guy like Pascal beats him.

 

Hopkins was great in his prime. Past his prime he managed to find a way to remain effective, and that's great for him, but it was often not very watchable..

 

I am not a Hopkins fan but of Ottke, Froch, Jones, Tarver and Dawson,......none of them did the same job with Johnson as Hopkins. To this day, Johnson recalls it as his worst experience in a prize-ring. His talent was undoubted and I had NO problem picking him to beat Trinidad.

Out of the ring he has the IQ of a fencepost and the manners of a dog. Fuck him.

 

Props to you. I always get drawn in to the pre fight shit talking and hope that Hopkins' opponent can end his career. It usually is 12 rounds of Hopkins doing everything possible to avoid a fight when it's all said and done.

 

Hopkins is a similar kind of fighter to me... if he is fighting quality, then I will watch. If he is taking on some obscure, unknown quantity? It's not much use to watch it (Ornelas, Hakkar). Un;ess it is Winky Wright. I don't go as far as boycott his fights but he'd be the first person on my list if I started boycotting more often.

Some of Hopkins' recent fights have been ok, imo. Both Pascal fights, Calzaghe, Pavlik, Tarver. Jones Jr. II was crap, the Taylor fights were incredibly disappointing, and Winky is crap anyway so that match was doomed from the beginning

 

I am hopeful that i avoid the Klit-Haye fight. I don't even know why i just called it a fight because it will be 12 rounds of garbage.

 

What do you watch? Just heavyweight fights with some others sprinkled in?

 

Last major fight I watched live on TV was Sergio Martinez vs Dzindzuruk. Setanta in Ireland televised that one with the shitty Versus commentary. I usually watch a lot of the stuff SKY show- British and European title fights. I did a RBR for Alvarez vs Rhodes last week. I really don't get to watch a lot of boxing thanks to not having ESPN or SKY. I do definitely watch fewer HW title fights than I do the others.

 

Hopkins, Mosley, the K-brothers (though I will do my best to make an exception for the up-coming Haye fight, I am suspicious I willl be disappointed by yet another snoozer), & Mayweather.

The first three bore me bitterly. The last one is relatively boring nowadays himself, but I just refuse to watch his circus on principle. Haven't tuned in since the bout with Marquez, & nothing short of Pacquiao (even a fight with someone like Williams, or Cotto, as much as they're novelty value now) will change that.

 

The thing about Floyd is this: he can fight. What kills it is as Ramonza has said- the sheer shammery of what Floyd is engaging in.

 

It indeed kills it, as he can indeed fight.

 

Bernard Dunne was another local Irish hero that I only watched for one reason: to see him lose. Myself and TKO have debated the merits of this point of view from time to time, but I regarded Dunne and his entire promotional outfit with more than a hint of disdain. Dunne had been run out of Wildcard Gym and had pitched up back in Ireland circa 2004/2005 whereupon his father, a joint exercise in obesity and dementia, had regaled all and sundry with rather embossed accounts of how his son had been handling Manny Pac and Shane Mosley in sparring.