How long have you been a hard core boxing fan ?

Im 25,fan all my life but hardcore fan around ten years,use to like Naz,Tyson,Steve Collins,Eubank but started getting the magazines and ordering the pay per views ten years ago..

 

I've been a "hardcore" fan since 94 when I watched Foreman knock Moorer...

 

I got hooked in 1974 , Ali vs Frazir Thrilla in Manilla and I have been a fan ever since both classcal and modern.

 

Been a big fan since RJJ beat Vinny Paz. I was a kid and I had seen both fight, so in my head it was an even fight coming in, how little I knew. Big fan since then, but there was about 2 years where I didnt pay attention because out of high school I became a ski bum. The contender got me back in as a casual fan, then I watched Mayweather vs. ODLH and next week watched Pavlik destroy Miranda and I was hooked again.

 

im 29 and i watched the **** in 1990.so its 2 decades for me, i would have watched it sooner but wwf use to rule my world, but i still keep up with that as well.

 

been watching boxing about 32 yrs.hard core fan 25yrs.im 43 yrs old.i remember ali,heard all about him,pryor leanard ,hearn,duran, hagler,foreman,holmes,benitez,arguello,tate,curry,spinks and all the late 80,s and 90,s fighters are clear in my mind and on video. i can say some of u guys have no idea.it,s not about watching the fights back,its about understanding the vibe at the time of the fight.still young,but remember big events

 

Been watching since the mid 80's, im 36 now.

Biggest memories back then ,

Listening to Hearns vs Leonard II on the radio.

Tyson knocking out Trevor Berbick and everyone at school saying he was only 18!!!

i know he was 20 , but when you are 12 you believe the other kids.

 

No it doesn't.

To declare oneself a "Pugilist Specialist Connoisseur" sounds pompous and arrogant.

Incidentally, I am a pugilist specialist connoisseur.

 

About 13 years

 

I'm about to turn 30. My first big fight memory was Leonard vs. Hagler, and I remember watching every Tyson fight, and in about 1989 my family got HBO and we were watching every time there was a fight...My dad was a fighter so boxing was in our house ever since I can remember. I can say I've been a hardcore fan (really following the entire sport closely and studying it and writing about it) since about 2004 when De La Hoya fought Hopkins. I voted 15-20 years because I still remember many obscure fights from when I was a kid, the memory is just retained for whatever reason.

 

"connoisseur" is for food and music and art...maybe even cars... You would be a pompous and ******ed to label yourself like that.

"enthusiast" or "aficionado" are more appropriate for a fight fan :good

 

I could have an intelligent boxing conversation with an adult when I was 9 years old. Some of the first books I read were boxing autobiographies and biographies. I am 30 now, and have followed boxing since the age of 6, so for 24 years, I have been a hardcore fan, although in my Army years ('99-'03) I couldn't keep up with the sport as much as I would have liked to.

 

Over 40 yrs.

 

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