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Same.  There's nothing else to watch on Friday night, so I may take a curious glance.

The only big fights I've seen since the 90's, early 2000's, was Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.  Those were pretty good.

Boxing was at it's peak, and healthiest, in the 80's when championship fights came on ABC'S Wide World of Sports, on a Saturday afternoon.

I still remember watching many of the middle weight fights (for free!), --- Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, and Duran.  Good times.

I remember being into it enough that I listened to Moorer-Foreman on the radio.  I think the problem is multiple levels.

• I wonder if we get here with football.  Guys used to box for exercise.  My dad joined a boxing gym briefly out of college, and I used to put on his gloves sometimes, but he was done by 23.  That was the only exercise his dad (my grandpa) got.  So his dad did it, was into it, and my dad enjoyed watching it with him, and then enjoyed watching it.  But it was so far from the scope of sports that my generation participated in.  I knew one kid, who started boxing in college.
• As cable allowed more access to other sports, boxing became harder and harder to watch.  Even in the early days of cable, I could watch 10 college football games per Saturday.  I needed someone with HBO, and eventually PPV to watch boxing.  And at least in digital PPV is easy.  PPV was difficult in the 90s.  You needed a separate box, that you could either buy or rent from your cable provider.  And then you had to stand on hold forever to subscribe.
• The heavyweight division was decimated.  Having weight classes makes sense, and the lighter weights have their advantages, but it's hard to sell best "pound for pound" fighters, when you knew they weren't actually the best in the world.  And from the mid-90s on, the heavyweight division was awful.
• Floyd Mayweather broke the scoring system.  He just boxed defensively in the most boring style ever, and might be the last famous boxer

• • I wonder if we get here with football.  Guys used to box for exercise.  My dad joined a boxing gym briefly out of college, and I used to put on his gloves sometimes, but he was done by 23.  That was the only exercise his dad (my grandpa) got.  So his dad did it, was into it, and my dad enjoyed watching it with him, and then enjoyed watching it.  But it was so far from the scope of sports that my generation participated in.  I knew one kid, who started boxing in college.

My daughter in Vancouver boxes, I think for exercise.

All this talk about RFK's other things that might not be so bad is sanewashing. It doesn't change the fact that he's pro-polio, pro-measles, and pro-whooping cough. Hard pass.

For that matter, none of the first-day nominees deserve to be on the White House grounds without a ticket.

Doug Bergum at Interior is the only one so far that might be kinda sorta maybe qualified.

Same.  There's nothing else to watch on Friday night, so I may take a curious glance.

The only big fights I've seen since the 90's, early 2000's, was Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder.  Those were pretty good.

Boxing was at it's peak, and healthiest, in the 80's when championship fights came on ABC'S Wide World of Sports, on a Saturday afternoon.

I still remember watching many of the middle weight fights (for free!), --- Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, and Duran.  Good times.