I cried when Tarver KO'd Roy. I cried because I wasted 60 dollars. I cried because right afterwards I saw Derek Fisher bury that three that put the Spurs out the playoffs. I creid because I lost an additional $75 on a bet.
Good question indeed and for me that one is easy. Friday evening, November 12, 1982 on HBO. Aarron "The Hawk" Pryor's vicious beatdown/14th round tko victory over my personal P.F.P. latino favorite of all time Alexis Arguello. I was 12-years old when that fight went down and personally I was already dealing with the at that time recent retirement of my #1 P.F.P. favorite Sugar Ray Leonard, who retired as the Undisputed Welterweight Champion, #1 pfp fighter and no doubt boxings biggest draw just three days before. After watching the conclusion of "The Explosive Thinman" Arguello slumping to the canvas and into unconciousness for 4-minutes under Pryor's wrath I definitely had to keep myself from crying while walking from the living room to my bed and thankfully it wasn't a school night so I was alright the next day as I had time and space to myself to reflect on the event itself and not to mention witness an even more darker graphic moment on CBS sports that Saturday afternoon, November 13, 1982, when I watched Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini record his fatal 14th round ko win over South Korean opponent Duk Koo Kim. Watching them carry Duk Koo Kim out of the ring on a stretcher was at the time no doubt the most graphically compelling sight that I had ever witnessed in boxing. Sugar Ray Leonard's first fight with Roberto Duran was a fight that left me feeling a bit depressed for a little bit until I got to see the televised replay of the CCTV fight on ABC's Wide World of Sports with the great Howard Cossell calling the action. After watching how practically close the fight was and even with Sugar Ray deliberately fighting flat flooted and slugging it out with one of boxings most vicious bodypunchers in Duran before getting beat I came to grips with Ray's first loss as a pro, moved on and braced myself for the 'No Mas' encounter, Leonard-Duran (2), just 5-months later. Last but not least, as mentioned Sugar Ray Leonard's first retirement from boxing on November 9, 1982 as the Undisputed Welterweight Champion and the biggest cash cow in boxing at the time following his successful surgery to repair the detached retina to his left eye was a personal pain that as a youngster I had to deal with and that pain would not be matched or rivaled in any way shape or form until Michael Jordan's first retirement from the Chicago Bulls on October, 1993. I still remember, as does Marvelous Marvin Hagler of course, that famous ending speech that Ray gave to the Marvelous one and the paying fans at the Baltimore Civic Center when he said, "A fight with this great magnificent champion would be the biggest fight in history. It would be Fort Knox, but unfortunitely it will never happen." Thank goodness that didn't fall true completely as the two combatants would eventually square off some five years later with Ray coming out of a three year layoff/2nd retirement and pulling off one of boxings biggest upsets against Hagler, a guy that by a close vote I still consider to be pfp the greatest Middleweight Champion of all time, and beating him by decision.