List Your First Boxing Experience & What Made You Turn Into A Hard Core Fan....

List & Discuss

 

My first actual boxing experience was my family used to rent a house on the board walk every summer and we would stay out there the whole summer....

my dad took me to a james "bone-crusher" smith fight.... i dont even remember who he was fighting but that was one of my first boxing memories of mine.....

that mixed in with sitting up with my dad watching tyson fights....



then I would watch an occasional fight here and there... any major fight that got promoted pretty well.... but then I watched floyd fight and I could see the difference in skill level and I started trying to learn the sport inside and out .. rest was history

 

I quess you didnt have alot of a succees at it.:bbb

 

**** is there some type of ****** that doesnt participate and just comes in here iwth some ****ing nonsense...

either post your **** or get the **** outa here

 

Relax. I started with Iron Mike I was pretty damn young back then. I have only see live fights by some of Euro bums. I mostly watch fights behind the Tv screen.
I think it all is because of Tyson.

 

The fight against buster Douglas, that is what I can not forget.

 

Walking into Brian Hughes Collyhurst and Moston Gym, when i was around 10. Although i never kept boxing up from that age its the place i always wanted to go back too when i decided to start training again.
Collyhurst and Moston Lads Club!

 

Got in a street fight with a boxer. He broke my nose and closed both my eyes. He hit me around 30 time before I was able to finally hit him and Ko'd him. Made an impression on me (literally), so I joined a gym shortly after.

 

^^ that story sounds pretty crazy

 

One Word. Tyson.

Although i was aware of Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard i was too young to appreciate them

 

me and my dad used to watch boxing on the tv i think the programe was called spotsnight i remember watching fighters like alan minter,dave boy green but the fight that really got me hooked was john h stracey vs hedgemon lewis,my dad got me some gloves and me and my mates used to try to box each other in my garden

 

yea it kinda sucked, I remember going home and trying to use the handle of a spoon to shoved up my nose in order to try and push my nose back into place. My hand was broke as well from the 1 hit I landed on him. It was not fun at all. And then trying to explain to people that I actually won when I looked way that I did also very hard

 

lots of talk about Sugar Ray Leonard aound me... then Tyson (before losing to Buster), and I've been hooked ever since..

 

The first time I started getting intrigued by boxing was when several co-workers were talking about how Tito Trinidad had beaten Oscar De La Hoya. I remember becoming interested and then I started following Oscar. I don't remember which fight I watched first but I do remember the first Oscar vs. Mosley fight was one of the biggest events I watched live. Ever since then I started following other fighters in other divisions to a point where I can name fighters from the minimum weights to the heavy weights. I also watch fights at Madison Square Garden and in Nicaragua whenever I can (I travel to Nicaragua a lot). My favorite fighters today are Roman Gonzalez (minimum weight), Juan Manuel Lopez (bantamweight), Youriorkis Gamboa (featherweight), Juan Diaz (light weight), Juan Manuel Marquez (light weight), Miguel Cotto (welterweight), Shane Mosley(welterweight), Jermain Taylor (middleweight), Librado Andrade (middleweight), Tomaz Adamek (cruiserweight), and Chris Arreola (heavyweight).

 

at 3 I watched Leonard-Hagler with my dad at his fight party...never forget it!!!