ive been to several but Mosely vs Margarito has to top my list... for starters i bought tix early for about 90 yankee dollars..as fight night came closer Staples Center decided to sell an addition 20 thousand seats. idk if that had anything to do with it but i ended up with floor seats only a few rows back from ringside Staples was packed with flag waving Mexican fans, all drinking and talkin sh!t. you could literally count the Mosely fans there on one hand. i was p!ssed cause Mosely actually got booed at Staples Center in LA if you can believe it. I was really the only person I knew who picked Mosely going in cause I knew even at 38 his style would be all wrong for Margarito The fight itself was great. i am ashamed i didnt cheer louder for my dawg but i was worried about getting lynched by a bunch of racist illegal immigrants. i gotta say though the Mexicans handled the loss with class
Best fight I attended action wise was Simon Brown v. Vincent Pettway. Most significant in the big picture was probably Roy Jones v. Bernard Hopkins I. Most enjoyable was Shannon Briggs v. Liakhovich in Phoenix, AZ in 2006. The weather was awesome and there were many hot women in attendance.
Burns-Mitchell had an absurd atmosphere, the loudest thing i've ever heard. Tbf, there was a roof and at Hampden there is none, but still, it was like being crushed by noise. That's probably the experience I enjoyed the most.
Not only that, I actually left after the 11th round because of boredom and wanting to beat the traffic. I missed the only action round and an exciting ending. LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
damn that must have been awesome...i was at Vasquez Marquez 4 but that one ended up being a dud. i swear Marquez started bleeding on his walk down to the ring
my m8 ko'ing some guy who clearly weighed 20+lbs more than him. unlicensed fighting is a bad move imo, guys gotta get paid tho.
I liked Vitali-Sanders the most. Williams-Margarito, Alvarado-Rios, and Tarver-Johnson I (bad decision) were also good. Rigo-Donaire was kind of slow. Donaire-Nishioka was average at best. My brother went Chico-Castillo. I'll never top that.
There was this guy David and this guy Steward that were arguing about coke and squaring up. So David hit Steward with a haymaker that he reached around from behind him and from the ground to throw. The punch landed, Steward did a double pirouette and was knocked out. :thumbsup That or the time I got a fat lip and a broken nose with one punch. Ashamed to say I have never attended a live boxing match before
Tyson-Holyfield I had the best atmosphere by a mile. Totally surreal. Bert Cooper -Michael Moorer, and Vincent Pettway-Simon Brown were both incredible. (albeit, not as significant as Tyson-Holyfield) Also Jeff Lampkin from Youngstown (I am also from Ohio) knocking out Glenn McCrory for the IBF cruiserweight championship in Gateshead, England near Newcastle was incredible. The crowd was so pumped up to see the American brought in for slaughter against the English world champion (Unlike now, the UK did not have many champions back then). When Lampkin knocked McCrory out in the third round, the crowd was stunned. Lennox Lewis had previously destroyed American Calvin Jones on the undercard.
Froch v Bute by a mile. Frock v Kessler was also incredible. My best moment was the Khan Barrera fight, on the undercard Afolabi was challenging Maccarinelli with the winner a shoe in for title contention. For about 8 rounds Big Mac had Ola against the ropes pounding away. My mate was desperate for a ****, he says "I'm going now, I'll beat the queue and this fight has routine UD written all over it". Literally the second he got down the tunnel Afolabi sparked Enzo with a huge right hand. My mate comes running back up the tunnel with a look of horror on his face as he realises what he's missed.