I am curious to know which fights everyone has seen live (location please) and if they prefer the live atomosphere or watching it closer on T.V... I, for one prefer the energentic crowd, going crazy with a group buddies and getting wasted.. Good time for me! Then see the reply to see who really won... Ive seen: Tito-Wright Vegas Wlad Peter (mainly for Cotto-Torres) Atlantic City Hopkins-Taylor I Vegas Cotto-Quintana Atlantic City Cotto-Judah New York Cotto-Mosley (yet) New York Hopkins-Tarver Atlantic City
Toney vs Ruiz NYC Wlad vs Peter AC Toney vs Rahman AC Gatti vs Damgaard AC Hopkins vs Taylor 1 Vegas Cotto vs Abdullaev NYC
Only Barrera vs Juarez on the elite level. Was a great show and I got to meat Pac for a moment (really nice person). Talked to someone who met Corrales at the fight (and likewise said he was a cool dude), would have been great to meet him. :good
Depends if you are a boxing writer doing a report or just there for fun. For fun I prefer the live atmosphere. Though if I have to write a report on a fight I go with the TV. I always have to review a fight if I'm going to write some about a fight I attended live.
I met a lot of famous celebs with I went to see the Tito-Wright bout... To name a few... zab, floyd sr, floyd jr (very nice fella at the time), steward, cris carter (football), Willie McGinest (football) etc.. They where all out that night at the MGM. Oh yea.. Saw Eddie George with a flock of hotties hopping in a stretcher outside of MGM after the fight... Pimp scene that was.
Only one I've seen is Taylor/Wright in Memphis. Even though it's less expensive and more convenient watching from home on the big screen, I still plan on going and seeing another one...it was really awesome.:good The bad part was the ticket prices for that fight were more expensive than any other fight that I've looked for ticket prices for since. :shock:
Is was at Abraham-Ikeke and Abraham-Gevor. I liked beeing live there. It was awesome, when Abraham KO'ed Gevor. Almost everybody jumped up with the hans in the air ... like when a soccer team is making a goal.
Vinnie Pazienza beat up my friend Ray Stebbins on 1st beach in Newport RI about 25 years ago. Bit him too. True story.
It was more like "Oh ****, he killed the poor guy" - that was what most people thought when they jumped up...
* Jameel McCline versus Shannon Briggs * David Tua versus Maurice Wheeler * David Tua versus Robert Hawkins * Wladimir Klitschko versus Calvin Brock * John Duddy versus Anthony Bonsante * Curtis Stevens versus Darnell Boone