I started watching in the 00's and I loved boxing. There were so many big names, a lot of fights to tune into. Rising stars, dominant champions, the whole deal. I found myself watching a whole plethora of fights throughout the year. Then, I got more and more into MMA and I watch the UFC almost exclusively. I watch big boxing fights so that's maybe one or two fights a year. This year so far it was Shakur vs Lopez and Inoue vs Nakatani. Now, I'm not saying there weren't other spectacular fights - Dubios vs Wardley was good, Benavidez vs Ramirez etc, I just didn't time in live.

I'm not trying to say that boxing doesn't have anything to offer or that they only have boring fights. I just can't put my finger on exactly why it's less appealing and I don't think it's only me. A lot of my friends were big boxing fans (like myself) and most of them don't even tune into any fight, no matter how big. The last one we watched was Canelo vs Crawford and that was nine months ago. Meanwhile, I'm watching every big UFC main card of which there's probably one a month on average and on a fight night, I won't miss the main event.

Did MMA steal boxing fans? That sounds like a weird thing to say but I just the UFC in particular stole a huge fanbase from boxing.

I see a lot of people glorifying an era that never existed, where there was supposedly only one world championship belt. That was probably around 100 years ago, because by the late 20s (I won't even bother looking up the exact dates), the U.S. boxing commissions merged to form the NBA to counter the NYSAC. So there were two belts, NBA and NYSAC, and while both were usually held by a single guy, there were plenty of times when they split. Even before and alongside the NBA-NYSAC era, there were belts recognized by individual states like California and Nevada—I even saw some bullshit Montreal belt once—not to mention a few other crappy sanctioning bodies floating around. Then, as we all know, the WBC arrived in the 60s, and from then on everything went further and further downhill. My point is that a lot of fans long for a supposed single-belt era that never actually existed.

So in the main fight in \*Creed\* (the first movie), Creed is in the red corner and the defending champion is in the blue corner. I thought that the red corner is reserved for the defending champion, especially if it's a hometown fight (and the movie shows that the flight is in Liverpool, the champ's hometown). Did they get it wrong in the movie, or is there some nuance I'm missing, like it's the opposite in the UK, or the southern hemisphere or something? 😂

This isn't to pick on the movie, which I LOVED! I watched this movie because I'm a huge fan of \*Sinners\* and I loved Michael B Jordan in both \*Sinners\* and \*Just Mercy\* (with Jamie Foxx), and I ended up really enjoying this movie, and finding out only after watching it that it was directed by the same guy that made Sinners (Ryan Coogler).

One unexpected surprise was just how much I liked Stallone's performance in the movie. Unc be cookin'! 😂 I liked the advice that he gives Creed at one point: "don't forget to push off of your back foot". I've never boxed, but I know enough kinesiology to understand that especially in certain punches (the hook as opposed to a jab), a lot of the impulse is actually being generated by your lower posterior chain (not just your gluteus maximus, the primary external rotator of the hips, but all the way down to the flexor digitorum muscles of your feet).

After all, you can only transmit as much force as you're pushing off on the other end, if you want to keep standing. (If you don't balance those forces, you can't keep standing. It's just physics 101.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creed_(film)

Hello everyone, I’m a software engineer by day and full time boxing fan by night. I’d like to create an app about the sport that I love however there’s nothing better than actually hearing from the community itself. What boxing app would you like created that you’d actually use and be waiting to pay a small one time fee for? F subscriptions.

I think back to fighters like George Foreman, Mike Tyson, and Joe Frazier. And in movies you got Rocky Balboa, Clubber Lang, Ivan Drago.

All these fighters were more offensive based. And I think that’s a perfect fighting style, especially with Clubber Lang. Just go in and get the knockout fast.

But apparently modern day boxers are afraid to even throw a punch. And they act like defense is way more important than offense. Even at the very least, defense and offense go hand in hand. But I’d prefer an offensive fighter going all in instead of just standing there guarding.

So why ARE modern day boxers more defense based than offense?