Things you have lost interest in over the years.

I'm With Stupid said:
Boxing. What's the point? You almost never get fights between the people you want to see fight until they're both past it. And the rest of the time, there's all of this novelty boxing where they want you to stay up until 4am to find out that someone who's not actually a boxer isn't as good at boxing as someone who is.
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I kind of agree.

I love boxing, it's my favourite sport and had done it from the age of six but I've lost interest compared to before. I'd stay up all hours and watch fights from all over the world until a few years ago.

The main thing that started making me lose interest is cards where nearly every fight was a 95/5 kind of fight for the A side with an inevitable results. The other is corrupt score cards for home/A side fighters.

That said, I still like it and I don't mind that the Saudi money is putting a lot of good cards on, just a shame it means there's very few tickets for boxing fans.

It's just become a frustrating sport. Now we have Canelo using every excuse under the sun to not fight Benavidez. It's just getting tedious trying to really enjoy it all.
 
Im a big traveller, love going to weird places all over the world but im starting to fall out of love with it. I want a holiday to be a holiday these days a I think, not a stressful slog having to catch dodgy busses at 3am in the middle of nowhere in Indonesia or somewhere. Give me a week in Tenerife
 
Football other than City, politics, Going out drinking, the news, the public in general, any social activities, my career, spending, clothes, holidays and peoples opinion.

I still love the idea of travelling buit even that is becoming less appealing.

Iv'e turned in to a real miserable bastard.
 
CTID1988 said:
Im a big traveller, love going to weird places all over the world but im starting to fall out of love with it. I want a holiday to be a holiday these days a I think, not a stressful slog having to catch dodgy busses at 3am in the middle of nowhere in Indonesia or somewhere. Give me a week in Tenerife
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A week in Tenerife isn't as character building nor something to tell the grand kids......
 
abu13 said:
Football other than City, politics, Going out drinking, the news, the public in general, any social activities, my career, spending, clothes, holidays and peoples opinion.

I still love the idea of travelling buit even that is becoming less appealing.

Iv'e turned in to a real miserable bastard.
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As you grow older mate, you're entitled to become anything you want as long as it's legal, so don't beat yourself up about it....you've earned the right.

I mean look at @Blue Mist
 
Football sadly.

Lived for the game. Work was a means to an end and that was watching City home and away with holidays booked around the season and games.

I struggle to even watch games on the tv these days and that includes us.
 
Crooked_rain said:
I kind of agree.

I love boxing, it's my favourite sport and had done it from the age of six but I've lost interest compared to before. I'd stay up all hours and watch fights from all over the world until a few years ago.

The main thing that started making me lose interest is cards where nearly every fight was a 95/5 kind of fight for the A side with an inevitable results. The other is corrupt score cards for home/A side fighters.

That said, I still like it and I don't mind that the Saudi money is putting a lot of good cards on, just a shame it means there's very few tickets for boxing fans.

It's just become a frustrating sport. Now we have Canelo using every excuse under the sun to not fight Benavidez. It's just getting tedious trying to really enjoy it all.
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I gave up watching boxing after the Catterall, Taylor fight. Even Paddy Power gave back the stakes on Catterall to win. The judges were watching a different fight to what I was watching. I don't bother watching it now. I was astounded by the decision. I've not watched a boxing fight since.
 
m7mcfc said:
I gave up watching boxing after the Catterall, Taylor fight. Even Paddy Power gave back the stakes on Catterall to win. The judges were watching a different fight to what I was watching. I don't bother watching it now. I was astounded by the decision. I've not watched a boxing fight since.
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Its shocking, it goes right down to amateur level.

I was an amateur as a kid/teenager, fought at a good level and won plenty of cups. I can say for certain there's about 5 fights I clearly won easily and got robbed because the owners of gyms or family were friendly with the organisers and officials.

My nephew is boxing now and got badly robbed in a BoxCup final last year basically because the kid he really beat had already been chosen to go abroad to represent the country, so they didn't want him to lose a domestic tournament right before.

Disgraceful sport at times, right down to kids level. Imagine robbing 13 year olds at tournaments because of boxing politics.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Its shocking, it goes right down to amateur level.

I was an amateur as a kid/teenager, fought at a good level and won plenty of cups. I can say for certain there's about 5 fights I clearly won easily and got robbed because the owners of gyms or family were friendly with the organisers and officials.

My nephew is boxing now and got badly robbed in a BoxCup final last year basically because the kid he really beat had already been chosen to go abroad to represent the country, so they didn't want him to lose a domestic tournament right before.

Disgraceful sport at times, right down to kids level. Imagine robbing 13 year olds at tournaments because of boxing politics.
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It's like what do you have to do to win? I'm not arsed about it anymore and told my friend boxing is out for me. By the way I don't know of the lads personally that fought that night but the decision was ridiculous. He hammered him for 10 rounds. Complete joke.
 
m7mcfc said:
It's like what do you have to do to win? I'm not arsed about it anymore and told my friend boxing is out for me. By the way I don't know of the lads personally that fought that night but the decision was ridiculous. He hammered him for 10 rounds. Complete joke.
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Catterall didn't get the decision because he can't sell tickets. That's the top and bottom of it. It's much better for business for Taylor to hold the belts.

Nobody can convince me the judges are not corrupt because if it was down to incompetence then why are pretty much 99% of very controversial decisions in favour of the hometown fighter/a side/cash cow? If it was incompetence then it wouldn't be so disproportionate who the dodgy decisions go in favour of. So you can only put it down to pure corruption.
 
Crooked_rain said:
Catterall didn't get the decision because he can't sell tickets. That's the top and bottom of it. It's much better for business for Taylor to hold the belts.

Nobody can convince me the judges are not corrupt because if it was down to incompetence then why are pretty much 99% of very controversial decisions in favour of the hometown fighter/a side/cash cow? If it was incompetence then it wouldn't be so disproportionate who the dodgy decisions go in favour of. So you can only put it down to pure corruption.
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I hear ya mate, but, seriously Boxing / prizefighting has been this way since...forever. Unless you knock someone out...even then it could be a 'fixed' K.O. Have a look at what went on in the 30's - 50's. ...Hell, even the Olympics....possibly every single one of them.
 
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