What made you a fan of boxing?

Really? So you were never a fan of Hatton or Hamed?

 

When i was a kid, i loved pro wrestling. Then my grandpa told me" Thats fake crap,BoomBoom Mancini just killed an asian guy, this one is real." then i started loving the real one.

 

Everybody's favorite subject, themselves.
My grandfather got me into it as a small child. The first big fight I can remember was Holmes-Cooney. Most of my family wanted the white hype to win, but me and my grandfather knew it wouldn't happen, and were quietly rooting for Holmes. My granddad told me about being a young boy himself in very rural Arkansas, and men from the nearest town of Grubbtown, would gather around the radio and listen to Joe Louis fights. Granddad said him and his friend Lloyd weren't allowed to be inside with the men, but would sit underneath the window outside listening to the fight, secretly rooting for Joe. They would've been scalded in those days if anyone knew they were rooting for that , ahem, black guy, but they were enthralled by his dominance and loved it when he inevitably KOd his opponent. This story installed in me a sense of mystery and rebellion about the sport. So I was gratified with Holmes' triumph that night, but that wasn't what hooked me.
First, it was the utter thrill and excitement of Hagler-Hearns, and it didn't hurt that I was rooting for Hagler because in the pre-fight buildup by Dan Deirdorf, he was clearly the underdog. The idea was if he could take the blistering power of this killer puncher, he'd have a chance, but that was his only chance. Then for it to unfold the way it did was dang near ecstasy for a 9-year old boy.
Then came the much-less remembered, and overall less exciting matchup of Rocky Lockridge and Roger Mayweather. In retrospect, Mayweather wasn't very experienced at all, but again the pre-fight buildup gave Lockridge practically no chance at all. This was a guy that had been badly KOd by someone considered much less talented than this slickster/powerpuncher. Mayweather came to the ring in the indoor facility wearing his shades as if there wasn't a concern in the world with this little guy he was about to knockout. But when it unfolded, I was finally hooked on the unspoken storyline of all boxing, that in no other sport could an underdog rise to such meteoric levels in such an exciting fashion. People say boxing is an excitement gratification sport like football, but at its heart its an anticipation sport like baseball. The difference is when that anticipation pays off, it's the most exciting experience in sports.

 

Hamed and Hatton weren't on ITV, were they? I only got into Boxing 2 years ago. I do like Hatton and the Prince though.

 

prime Tyson stayed up till 4.00 am in uk to watch the berbick fight been a boxing addict ever since

 

For me it was lennox lewis in 97, I was only watching him, few time a years. But this fight was the real hook for me.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpdGFK_mqZI[/ame]

 

When I was 9 or so the Lewis-Tyson fight was about to happen and, seeing the press conference attack on sportscenter, I knew I had to see these 2 fight. Seeing the security at center ring left me with the impression that these were 2 unbeatable beasts, and the fight was exciting to me.

I stopped watching after that until the Mayweather De La Hoya fight came around and my cousin convinced me to see it. Following the 24/7 series with him i began to hate Mayweathers cockiness with all of my being, i couldnt WAIT to watch this punk get KO'd. Well, it didnt happen as we all know, but it got me interested in boxing as my uneducated mind thought at the time that it was a competitive fight. I followed mayweather hatton and Pacquiao's rise but i wasnt quite hardcore. Then I saw a thriller of a fight between Juan Manuel Marquez and Juan Diaz, and from there on out I was HOOKED.

 

my parents used to get every de la hoya PPV on the black box thing back in the day and put me in a PAL boxing program.

 

i got into it after watching rubin the hurricane carter the film

 

Seeing re-runs of Mike Tyson's old fights.

 

gatti-ward 1

 

My Dad was a cruiserweight fighter who was trained by Miguel Diaz. He was a regular sparring partner for Riddick Bowe before the second Holyfield fight.. When i was little whenever there was a fight we were watching it, and a lot of the time we were re-watching fights.. The fights that really stick out in my memory are Tyson vs. Spinks, Leonard vs. Hagler, Tyson vs. Holmes, Tyson vs. Douglas, Chavez vs. Taylor, Holyfield vs. Foreman and all the other Holyfield fights in the early 90's.

I fell out of touch with boxing for a long time starting in the mid 90's, but started watching again around the time of Mayweather vs. Gatti. What cemented my current hardcore status was Showtime fights in 2005: Hatton vs. Tszyu and Castillo vs. Corrales.

BTW I remember Leonard vs. Donnie "The Golden Boy" LaLonde... that **** was epic and I loved it when Leonard landed the bolo punch haha

 

Hasn't it been pretty much proven than Carter did the crime?

 

Mike Tyson

 

thats a really sad story