earliest boxing memories

I vaguely remember my family being up in arms about the Marciano ,vC*ckell fight and Rocky's fouls in that fight.
The Ingo v Floyd trilogy I remember more clearly.

 

An issue of Sports Illustrated with Roberto Duran on the cover with the Title "NO WAY SUGAR RAY"

I also remember Weaver knocking out Tate in the last round.

 

Babies,mere babies!atsch

 

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This could be true.

 

The movie houses had a lot of the late 50's/early 60's Heavyweight title fight news replays between double features...especially with short fights like the Floyd-Ingo Trilogy, or the Liston-Patterson one-rounders.

Some kid thought Woody Woodpecker was coming next, when in fact it
is Floyd coma-tosing Ingo...with Ingo's leg twitching and the kid's mom saying "don't look....don't look".

 

I remember growing up in the Tyson era as a little kid. He was one of the biggest cultural icons of my childhood. Seeing his image on TV roaring with crazy punches was just another fact of life to me.

I also remember the Tyson ear bite scandal being a huge issue that everyone was talking about. And seeing it all over the papers. Hard to imagine anything boxing related getting the kind of attention Tyson got in those days.

But I hadn't gotten into boxing till I was in college. I stumbled upon Unforgivable Blackness on youtube, and was hooked ever since.

 

Yeah, I'm probably just a few years older than you. Young "Kid Dynamite" Tyson was larger than life back in the day. Had a superhero-like following at my elementary school. The first fights that I actually remember in vivid detail though were those involving guys like Holyfield, Bowe, Moorer, Whitaker, DLH, Mosley, and (an aging) Azumah Nelson, etc. on HBO in the 90s.

 

1997 - In a newspaper I saw a pic of Mike Tyson weighing in for the Holyfield rematch. He was ripped, looked mean and angry. I was 15 and never seen a boxing match before. I have been obsessed ever since.

This was the pic.
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos...e-a-bout-against-evander-at-picture-id1400028

 

Earliest fight I remember seeing on tv was Ali-Zora Folley in 1967 when I was 8. Showing my age

 

Getting punched in the head at age 4 on my first day at kindergarten. It was basically the scenario Derek and Clive once joked about where Clive (Peter Cook) was enraged when this guy said hello so Clive beats him to a pulp. In my case I saw a kid I never seen and said hello so he hit me right in the forehead... clearly he didn't know what he was doing, foreheads are soft at that age but harder than knuckles... anyway I admit to total shock, no one had ever assaulted me before> I told my dad so he showed me two basic punches and put some carpet onto a tree and got me to practise the left and right which I had no hesitation using whenever there was a threat for the rest of those violent school days... al Australian schools were violent places in my experience at least.

Boxing ? well hardly but they sure were fistfights...... even when I won I never enjoyed it, I found it hard to take pleasure in hurting someone even though they were brats of the highest order. I doubt a week ever went by before there was a challenge. I had one surefire way to tell if they were tough or not, I'd do something that would have us both in the principals office getting the cane... as I though the cane was a joke and never bothered me I would count the cuts out while smiling... and if the other guy cried or in many cases bawled his eyes out even before getting caned... they were in trouble at lunchtime as they were about to get fists in the face syndrome... to those who laughed and grabbed the cane off the teacher.... well, they were quite often a different story... LOL

 

LOL that was one hell of a POMMY bashing that one.

 

Foreman vs. Norton on Wide World of Sports. Ali came on afterward, ranting and raving. I asked my father who the loudmouth guy was and he told me his name. I had never heard such a name, so he had to repeat it for me a couple times.

 

Ali - Frazier 3, the Thrilla in Manila is about the first fight I remember. that and Ali - Foreman. It was like the whole world stopped for these fights.

(Later on Tyson had the same effect, but less so, as the sport seemed like it was on the decline)

Later on it was Hagler/Tyson that made me a die hard boxing fan.