How long have you been a fan of boxing?

Not for me. I thought Tyson permitted all that by not taking his job seriously, and Holyfield and Moorer never should have done as well as they did if there was a serious dominant HW champ around. When the great Bob Foster stepped up to HW he got KTFO, repeatedly, by the serious heavys, and I don't think Holy and Moorer are better than Foster. Just my opinion.

I'm in the minority on this, but I think Tyson anytime before 86 just walks right thru Holyfield and any of those guys. Holyfield and Mercer would try to stand with him and bang and get KTFO, and Foreman would just eat horrible barrages of punches until the ref stopped it. Unfortunately, Tyson was a headcase who was already coasting on his training before he even met Spinks in the ring.

 

Since I was a kid late 80s my dad showed me a Tyson fight...

 

Got in to boxing around 10 years old, Im 30 now.

 

25 years, mothafugga. But, I've been punching things since I was 2.

 

The first fight I saw, and that I remember was the De La Hoya-Trinidad fight and I was pretty much hooked from then on. I know for a few years, basically before I had access to the internet, I would check every saturday on HBO just to see if there was a fight was going to be on.

 

i am 27 years old. i have always been a fan of the sport. i used to watch tyson fights and was a fan. but it was jones/toney that really turned me into much more than a fan.

 

I've been watching for as long as I can remember.

When I was a child and really didn't know what was going on, I can remember my parents jumping around in Tyson fights.

Then I remember Naseem Hamed, and his flashy ring entrances. Never caught the Barerra fight. Always wondered where he went(Until years later when I started becoming more of a buff that I saw him get a beat down).

Stopped watching for a little bit. Then one day my Dad comes in my room, and he's like "Yeah you gotta check out this kid named Andre Ward". So I ended up watching Ward in the Olympics. Then my Dad makes me watch Floyd destroy Gatti a little while after that. That beat down is when I really became awestruck.

I've been following hardcore since(I'm 19 years old)

 

Ya Buddy!!

 

Grew up on Cesar Chavez and Iron Mike. Hooked for 20 years and counting.

 

Since Bruno vs Tyson II in 1996.

 

casual 30 years and diehard since Hearns/Duran in 1984. So diehard 26 years. I am not as excited now as I was about boxing in the 1980's. Boxing just does not have the same excitement as it did back them. I am not sure if it is because I was younger or if boxing really was that much better. I think it is a combination of the two things.

 

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Since watching my first boxing match, Leonard-Hearns, in 1981, when I was 9 years old.

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