How long have you been a hard core boxing fan ?

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  1. SonOfCuba

    SonOfCuba Well-Known Member Full Member

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    For me its been 14 years, I remember watching Holyfield/Tyson and becoming being so fascinated by the fight, then watching rematch and seeing all the controversy and it was all so exciting. I haven't missed a big boxing fight ever since and have followed the sport deeply with great passion.

    How about you ? How long have you been a hard core boxing fan ? In the way that you not only watch big fights but you actually follow every aspect of the sport.
     
  2. Finesse74

    Finesse74 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    10 years here. I'm 23.
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    I used to watch black and white fights and fights before my time everyday at school during PC class.

    Everyday before going to pratice I would pop in one of my Coaches old school PR fighter DVDs.

    Read super duper old issues of The Ring that my Coach's son had.
     
  3. Ring Master

    Ring Master The Originator Full Member

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    22 years. Hardcore 18.
     
  4. Finesse74

    Finesse74 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Damn you're murdering me son and your younger...damn shame lol.
     
  5. Ring Master

    Ring Master The Originator Full Member

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    :lol: nah I been watching 22 years been a hardcore fan 18 years.
     
  6. lastletter26

    lastletter26 Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I've been a hardcore fight fan since before some of you were swimming around in your daddy's nutsack.

    Nah Just kidding LOL. Been a hard core fan since the late 80s. Pops was a hardcore fan and his boys always had fight parties that I went to. I'm not gonna sit here and act like I was at the level I am now when looking at boxing.
     
  7. juanitoboxing

    juanitoboxing Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I've been a fan all my life but a hardcore fan about 12-14 years.
     
  8. JunitoJab

    JunitoJab Antagonist Full Member

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    Only about 3 years - Hardcore.. Always been interested.. Just wasn't anyone around to bounce conversations off..
     
  9. whuiron1

    whuiron1 Active Member Full Member

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    i only like hockey
     
  10. FlatNose

    FlatNose Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I started getting interested right around the time Monzon knocked out Benvenuti for the title and Ali made his comeback in 1970. Then came Roberto Duran. Followed by Zamora , Zarate, Gomez, Sanchez. The 1976 Olympic Boxing Team, Cosell and Dunphy.
    I happened upon boxing during a red hot era. No wonder I went nuts over it.
     
  11. Colt_Leader

    Colt_Leader Member Full Member

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    9 years. It was also the first sport I ever liked.
     
  12. jeffjoiner

    jeffjoiner Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    My dad is a big fight fan and only 21 years older than me (I'm 34). I grew up watching the fights and Hagler was my guy as a kid. My earliest memories of boxing are the Holmes/Spinks fights with my dad and his friends and Saturday afternoon ABC after finishing yard work.
     
  13. T.S.

    T.S. T.Stout Full Member

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    Since Ali/ Frazier 1.
     
  14. theuppercut

    theuppercut Blackpudding supper Full Member

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    23 yrs watching the sport

    My Dad got me watching Frank Bruno fights in the late 80s. I think he saw that as a nice, gentile way to break me in (I wasn't allowed to watch his first fight with Tyson, I was 7) and then I watched Benn - Eubank 1 live on telly when I was 10 and that was me sold.

    My Dad then gave me an old vhs tape that had a sticker on it saying "Hagler". "Watch this son," he said.

    The rest is history.
     
  15. kommieforniaglo

    kommieforniaglo Boxing Junkie Full Member

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