Your earliest/favourite memory of boxing in your life?

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  1. danlop15

    danlop15 Member Full Member

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    I remember watching Tyson fight, and De La Hoya fights were always ordered on PPV. I'm not that old so those were the days to me.
     
  2. Rock0052

    Rock0052 Loyal Member Full Member

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    The first thing I remember about the sport were the commercials leading into the Tyson-Bruce Seldon fight, where Tyson kept mentioning Seldon's name and his jab.

    "Bruce Seldon...They say he's just got a jab...well ask Joe Hipp about that jab" or something similar to it. Needless to say the letdown on fight night was a harbinger of things to come. :lol:
     
  3. NeckBreaknAiken

    NeckBreaknAiken Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Watching Mike Weaver get his ass beat to a pulp for 14 1/2 rounds... and then with like 30 seconds left... KAPOW! He knocked some fool out!

    Does anyone remember that fight? Probbably somewhere in the late 70's early 80's
     
  4. Rudyard

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    Watching (at the time) the "Unstoppable" Mike getting his ass handed to him by Buster Douglass.
     
  5. sdsfinest22

    sdsfinest22 Pound 4 Pound Full Member

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    4 years old and me and my dad and his friends sat down to watch Leonard-Hagler!! Never forget that!

    Honorable mention...I was 6 years old and I watched Tyson get knocked out by Douglas!!
     
  6. sdsfinest22

    sdsfinest22 Pound 4 Pound Full Member

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    Man I'm right there wit u!:good
     
  7. pipe wrenched

    pipe wrenched ESB ELITE SQUAD Full Member

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    Hagler vs. Leonard. I didn't quite understand everything, but my parents and their friends were all excited, so you know how it is being a kid...you get excited too. I can remember most of that evening very well.
     
  8. kracka81

    kracka81 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    man i can remember my dad and all my uncles watching fights the room was full of cigarette smoke beer cans every where but my first big fight i remember hector camacho getting his first loss greg haugen and every one couldnt beleive it i remember watching tyson wipe out the heavy weight division then he lost and went to prison
     
  9. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    i was little and remember my dad and his buddy leaving our house to go see holmes vs cooney on closed circuit
     
  10. iceman71

    iceman71 WBC SILVER Champion Full Member

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    Big John Tate
     
  11. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    My first and favourite boxing memory is sitting up until the wee small hours as a wee small boy for the first Tyson-Bruno fight.

    On the radio.
     
  12. cuchulain

    cuchulain Loyal Member Full Member

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    Mike was lucky to get that one.

    Sort of like Foreman-Moorer and Briggs-Likiavich.

    John Tate was the victim.
     
  13. Jorodz

    Jorodz watching Gatti Ward 1... Full Member

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    i was lucky...my first fight ever was my dad bringing me into the living room to watch hagler/hearns. Unfortunately it set the bar a little too ****ing high for every fight that followed for the next 23 years
     
  14. MAG1965

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    My earliest memory is Leonard and Duran and the hype around that fight. Duran seemed so sinister at the time. My first real fight to watch came in Sept. of 1981 with Hearns/Leonard. After seeing how Tommy lost in style and then kept fighting and Ray playing games, Tommy became my favorite fighter. That is a case where a man fighting an honest fight and giving his all made him my favorite fighter (Thomas Hearns), and a guy who played games and was sneaking into history books went down in my mind in Ray Leonard.
     
  15. brando18b4h

    brando18b4h Active Member Full Member

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    Listening to the Thrilla in Manilla live on the radio.