[jyl]

I used to love watching boxing, followed most of the name fighters. I don’t know if the quality was so vastly much better then - there were certainly schmo fighters, even on national TV you’d sometimes see some tubby guy seemingly just there to get pounded - but I think it must have to be, with MMA taking away so much audience and money from real boxing now. I don’t watch anymore so can’t say, and not sure where I could watch if I wanted to. I do watch Olympic boxing as much as I can.

MMA doesn’t interest me much. Yes, they can do lots more than boxers are allowed to, but fights don’t develop with beginning middle and end, there’s not time for body hits to build up and legs and arms to slow. And the theatre is off-putting.

I was kind of interested in watching fencing for a while, my son fenced a bit in middle school and the teachers loved his dancer’s footwork, but the sport puts ridiculous stress on one knee so I wasn’t unhappy that he stopped.