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Poll: Does Women's Boxing Interest You?

Holly Holm is currently the top junior welterweight in women's boxing.
Holly Holm is currently the top junior welterweight in women's boxing.
Scott Christ is the managing editor of Bad Left Hook and has been covering boxing for SB Nation since 2006.

I realize this might be a halfway touchy subject, so if you're going to make frat boy comments or whatever, either abstain or prepare to be ruthlessly banned, but this is something I've thought about from time to time.

Obviously all of us on this site are boxing fans to one degree or another. Some are boxing nuts, some are casual fans, some fall somewhere in the middle. But clearly this site covers only the men's side of the sport, which aligns with pretty much every boxing site out there, really. Occasionally you'll get a blip of news on a notable fight in women's boxing, but it's rare.

So the question is this: Do you have any interest in women's boxing? Women's MMA has become more popular as that sport has grown, but in boxing they've just never really made a dent in overall fan interest, it seems, and that doesn't seem like it's changing any time soon.

If you're like me and admittedly have basically no interest in women's boxing, why is that for you? Is it a lack of personalities? Do you have trouble seeing women engaging in a brutal sport? Is it a technical issue for you (e.g., are the fights simply less appealing from a technical standpoint)? Or are you just plain not interested?

And if you are a fan, please share why, and maybe share some of your favorite fighters or fights.

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