Casual Chronicles of Boxing
By Scottie “The Context” White-
For those who enjoy mingling beneath the boxing umbra as mainstreamers or purist of the sport, we all fancy ourselves in a common arena to have thick skin and a mental rolodex durable enough to endure the opening rounds of brash opinionated debates. What does it all mean exactly, how are we advocating for fighters for which we may never meet in our lifetime, nor will we ever have the pleasure as a boxer of slicing the ring entrance and hearing our ledger announced to the exalting of those in attendance. Well, we do it because there are common fibers that keeps us driven and highly motivated as fans of the “The Sweet Science.”
When it comes to the lea of combat sports, boxing provides us with an open-door turnstile when in rotation, have riped amateurs into professionals, who in turn excelled their skillful advantages in presenting them the opportunity to achieve the highest medal in the sport- divisional world champion. Boxing has never been a snap shot in determining a blueprint for its success, we marvel through the lens of such a brutish sport renowned for its volatile state of affairs. As Fans we adorn the villains of this pugilist realm, it doesn’t matter if we are in attendance to witness a contest of wills or the solace of our quarters from afar- the support never wavers.
Boxing has thrived as a genre in sports entertainment aged from decades past, to an audience delight and the raw physical detriments of subsequent frames evaluated by appointed judges and mediated from the opening bell from an assigned referee. Our focal point as fans is simply to draw a winner, one who has successfully contended a perfect fight plan, one with a strategy to disrupt the rhythm of his/her competitor to the point of achieving ultimate victory. From the outside looking in, we all have different visuals of observation as to how we admire the science of combat sports, especially when we reside in attendance. Sometimes the heat of battle influences diehard boxing fans to be rambunctious, shrilling verbal obscenities and on occasions tussle with an adoring fan nearby. The art of combat expressed in boxing elevates the energy of the onlooker and otherwise easy-going patron is relegated to a brief hooligan experience. Four corners to a blood-soaked canvas and the pugilists whom are center stage can never hide behind the masquerade in covering their battle striped scars.
A gentlemen sport is the polite adage to soften the title, a hypothetical prelim to usher in the beat of the drums, to summon the heat of the battle will commence. Boxing is the monarch of combat sports, as it hosts significant archival epochs of match-ups for all casual fans. As we revisit the scintillating pages in the boxing annals, one may conclude that in the pugilist domain of boxing,good-bows-before evil much of the time, and we as fans cosign this embrace inhow we choose to create our pound-for-pound list or a prioritize group of fighters who we support whole heartily win or lose. This is sort of how we group our collective montage of favorite- to least favorite fighters, truly judging them on their personae, performance and consistency as they split the ropes to earn their livelihood. A what have you done for me lately postures the obstinate fight fans agenda, on your team today and aborted tomorrow never once claiming a declaration of loyalty. Fighters growth in the sport isn’t hydrated strictly from the left scale of their ledger but the slight obsession from hardcore boxing fans consider them larger than life, boxing idols.
There are many astute levels from an educated fan perspective, which in our world garner a pool of self-promoted knowledge pennants that is utilized to separate the casual fans from the realist. So, the next time you’re planning to congregate in the company of equally obsessed boxing aficionados, just know; the verbal sparring may go several rounds rendering no real winner.