What was the first fight that you can vividly recall watching ?

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  1. Muchmoore

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    Klitschko-Lewis
     
    Muchmoore, Sep 22, 2010
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  2. di tullio

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    De la Hoya-Trinidad. I was 8.
     
    di tullio, Sep 22, 2010
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  3. johnmaff36

    johnmaff36 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    2nd Ali-Spinks fight. i was 7 and my old man went nuts when ali won. He actually kept the newspaper clippings of it. I remember the 1st fight i was allowed to stay up and watch was holmes-cooney. The tv channel showed the deer-hunter movie before hand and it seemed like an eternity waiting til the 4am (i think) fight. I also kinda remember the tv channel kinda f*****g up the movie and restarting it from the beginning. Long long night that was.
     
    johnmaff36, Sep 22, 2010
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  4. hhascup

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    Archie Moore/Yvon Durelle 1

    I remember that we just got a TV and the fight was on. My father had to hold the antenna in the other room so we could see the picture. That was the 1st boxing match I ever saw and it may well have been the best ever.

    It was later voted the fight of the decade (1950's)
     
    hhascup, Sep 22, 2010
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  5. burt bienstock

    burt bienstock Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    No fight was ever more exciting hh...
     
    burt bienstock, Sep 22, 2010
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  6. kmac

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    the first fight i remember watching was ali-holmes.
     
    kmac, Sep 22, 2010
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  7. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    My dad took me to the old Garden in ‘46 to see Robinson against Tommy Bell for the vacant welter title.
     
    john garfield, Sep 22, 2010
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    Julio Cesar Chavez-Hector Camacho...I was 8.
     
    Zopilote, Sep 22, 2010
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  9. OLD FOGEY

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    I remember seeing Graziano and Janiro going to a draw. Also Murphy and Bucceroni. Those might not be the first fights I saw on TV but they are about the first I remember.
     
    OLD FOGEY, Sep 22, 2010
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  10. oli

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    Christ!! Im so jealous of you older guys having lived thru such cool **** like that. To be able to say you saw Sugar Ray Robinson live at the garden!!!:happy
     
    oli, Sep 23, 2010
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  11. john garfield

    john garfield Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Sure Sugar was thrilled to have me their, o.
     
    john garfield, Sep 23, 2010
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  12. RockysSplitNose

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    :lol: hahaha If I was Sugar I would've been real glad you were there - at the end of the fight I'd have been going "where's John??...John!!!!.......Joooooohhhhhhn!!!!!! Joooooohhhhnnn!!!!!!!" :|

    a la Rocky Balboa's "adriaaaaaannn!!!!!! Adriaaaaaaaaann!!!" :|

    You are one lucky sod though John for sure :good
     
    RockysSplitNose, Sep 23, 2010
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  13. john garfield

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    That's EXACTLY what happened, R, but they never mentioned it in the writeups...'n I was too embarrassed to remind Sugar.
     
    john garfield, Sep 23, 2010
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  14. Rumsfeld

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    The first fight I remember seeing was Hagler-Hearns when I was 9.
     
    Rumsfeld, Sep 23, 2010
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  15. RockysSplitNose

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    :lol: I have images of Ray feigning real over the top weeping and looking really down in the dumps and then somebody pointing you out to him in the crowd and suddenly a big beaming grin coming to his face :D hahaha

    ps John just out of interest what was your favourite fight you ever went to see from ringside?
     
    RockysSplitNose, Sep 23, 2010
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