The fight that gave you boxing fever forever???

Not one I've seen live, but classics that cemented my admiration for the sport, its history, and all those who helped write it:

• Foreman-Norton
• Saddler-Elorde II
  
• Moore-Durelle I
• Walcott-Charles III
• Ellis-Patterson
• Carnera-Uzcudun I and II ( the camera angle, its noise, and sheer size of Carnera ignites the imagination.)
• Napoles-Cokes
• Frazier-Ali I

And the one diamond without footage: Ezzard Charles-Archie Moore trilogy. In my mind it remains a pristine, larger than life, lost clash of virtuosos that may never be found.

Recent gems that thrilled me for the time being: Inoue-Donaire I and II, Inoue-Fulton, Usyk-Joshua I and II, Usyk-Dubois, Alvarez-Ryder, Ryder-Parker, Ioka v anybody really.

 

Botha - Schultz

 

I wish I had a defining moment but I don't. I started watching the Thursday Night Fights from the Olympic Auditorium in 1965 and it was quite cool. My mom would take my siblings and go grocery shopping. My dad and 8 year old me would be by ourselves watching the fights. It was the only time as a kid I got to drink one of my dad's cans of soda. He would get one for both of us and we would watch the bouts from 8 to 10pm.

So I guess the answer would be the Thursday Night Fights.

 

No particular fight but watching Ali in the 60`s hooked me

 

Hagler v Hearns!
The build up, reading about it in the Ring Magazine, their faces in those pictures together, all business, no messing around.
Then the actual fight. My god, that first round when both men just clashed together.
Not quite 3 rounds but enough for me to get bitten by the boxing bug.

 

Me too. It was Muhammad's second fight with Henry Cooper and the Brian London bout that turned me into the Ali fanatic that I have been ever since.

 

The first fight I remember seeing is Marvin Johnson against Saad Muhammad. I can't remember if it was fight one or two
That got me into boxing

 

GGG vs Daniel Jacobs was my first real introduction to watching boxing.

 

I know you are young George but given your knowledge that has surprised me

 

Amazing. You've accumulated an incredible amount of knowledge in such a short space of time.

 

Thank you, both!

I can't take all the credit, though. I have yq good memory so I kind of wing it unless I'm really unsure, but the lockdowns from COVID-19 really helped out. I worked like 6 hours 4 times a week cutting logs, but other than that, I could watch as many boxing matches as I wanted. I watched over a thousand in April of 2020

 

You watched more than 33 fights per day on average in 1 month?!?! Haha, that's insane. They majority obviously weren't 15 round distance fights, unless you don't sleep

 

Okay, maybe a thousand was a bit high of a number, but I watched a lot and during the course of the first two lockdowns it would've have definitely been over a thousand. I posted the list of fights in a thread I made in Euro Forum to help me keep track. Anyway, I found the list I made.

"Seen, Since April 5th

Mustafa Hamsho vs Curtis Parker 1
Katsunari Takayama vs Francisco Rodriguez Jr
Mathew Macklin vs Jamie Moore
Livingstone Bramble v Ray Mancini 1
Michael Gomez vs Alex Arthur
Nigel Benn vs Anthony Logan
Carl Thompson vs Ezra Sellers
Kevin Lueshing vs Chris Saunders 2
Danny Lopez vs José Torres
Caveman Lee vs John LoCicero
Ray Mancini vs Arturo Frias
Tommy Hearns vs Iran Barkley 1
Julio César Chávez vs Mario Martínez
Carmen Basilio vs Johnny Saxton 2
Carmen Basilio vs Tony DeMarco 2
Rocky Graziano vs Tony Zale 3
Kevin Mitchel vs John Murray
Bert Cooper vs Micheal Moorer
Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas
Rocky Marciano vs Archie Moore
Ricardo Lopez v Rosendo Alvarez II
Derrick Jeferson vs Maurice Harris
Adrian Hernandez vs Kompayak Porpramook
Oswaldo Novoa vs Moonsri Menayothin
Nigel Benn v Lou Gent
Kevin Kelley vs Derrick Gainer 1
Kevin Kelley vs Alejandro Gonzalez
Kevin Kelley vs Prince Naseem
Kevin Kelley vs Érik Morales
Kevin Kelley vs Marco Antonio Barrera
Marco Antonio Barrera vs Kennedy McKinney
Tommy Hearns vs Juan Domingo Roldan
Humberto González vs Saman Sorjaturong
Junior Jones vs Kennedy McKinney
Marcos Maidana vs Victor Ortiz
Simon Brown vs Terry Norris 1
Terry Norris vs Troy Waters
Jorgé Paez vs Troy Dorsey 1
Katsuya Onizuka vs Hyung Chul Lee
Bert Cooper vs Evander Holyfield
Michael Gomez vs Carl Johanneson
Venice Borkhorsor vs Rafael Herrera
Carlos Palomino vs Armando Muniz 1
Bobby Chacón vs Arturo Frias
Takanori Hatakeyama vs Hiroyuki Sakamoto
Román González vs Carlos Cuadras
Tim Bradley vs Ruslan Provodnikov
Jesse Feliciano vs. Alfonso Gomez 3
Edwin Rosario vs José Luis Ramirez 2
Jung Koo Chang vs Hideyuki Ohashi 2
Joichiro Tatsuyoshi vs Sirimongkol Singwacha
Dwight Muhammad Qawi vs Eddie Davis
Jung Koo Chang vs Muangchai Kittikasem
Somsak Sithchatchawaln vs Mahyar Monshipour
Vicente Saldívar vs Howard Winstone 1
Dariusz Michalczewski vs Richard Hall 2
Charles Williams vs Bobby Czyz 1
Victor Galíndez vs Ritchie Kates 1
Tomasz Adamek vs Paul Briggs 1&2
Matthew Saad Muhammad vs John Conteh 1
Bob Foster vs Chris Finnegan
Jeff Harding vs Dennis Andries 1
José Torres vs Eddie Cotton
Nathan Cleverly vs Andrey Fonfara
Giovani Segura vs Ivan Calderon 1
Arturo Gatti vs Gabriel Ruelas
Arturo Gatti vs Wilson Rodriguez
Arturo Gatti vs Ivan Robinson 1
Kevin Kelley vs Troy Dorsey
Jeff Fenech vs Marcos Villasana
Jeff Fenech vs Samart Payakaroon
Micky Ward vs Emanuel Burton
Hernan Marquez vs Luis Concepcion 1
Giovani Segura vs Hernan Márquez
Srisaket Sor Rungvisai vs Juan Francisco Estrada
Fransisco Vargas vs Takashi Miura
Fighting Harada vs Katustoshi Aoki
Patryk Szymańsk vs Robert Talarek
Juan Francisco Estrada vs Brian Viloria
Jorgé Arce vs Hussein Hussein 1
Elvir Muriqi vs Sam Ahmad
Miguel Cotto v Ricardo Torres
Felix Trinidad v Fernando Vargas
Paulie Ayala vs Johnny Tapia 1
Mike Rossman vs Victor Galíndez 1
Victor Galíndez vs Yaqui López 1
Takefumi Sakata vs 'Trash' Nakamuna 1
Barry McGuigan vs Eusebio Pedroza
Julio César Chávez vs Rocky Lockridge
Leonard Dorin vs Raul Balbi 1
Victor Galíndez vs Mike Rossman 2
Michael Katsidis vs Graham Earl 1
Michael Katsidis vs Kevin Mitchel
Michael Katsidis vs Juan Manuel Márquez
Michael Katsidis vs Vicente Escobedo
Michael Katsidis vs Joel Casamayor
Michael Katsidis vs Juan Diaz
Juan Diaz vs Manuel Márquez 1
Juan Diaz vs Julio Diaz
Juan Diaz vs Acelino Freitas
Acelino Freitas vs Jorge Barrios
Acelino Freitas vs Diego Corrales
Rogers Mtagwa vs Tomas Villa
Antonio Esparragoza vs Stevie Cruz
Ernesto Marcel vs Antonio Gomez 1
Ernesto Marcel vs Alexis Argüello
Ernesto Marcel vs Kuniaki Shibata
Kuniaki Shibata vs Ben Villaflor 2
Happy Lora vs Antonio Avelar
Vicente Saldívar vs Howard Winstone 2
Jorgé Paez vs Calvin Grove 1"

https://www.boxingforum24.com/threa...crowcroft-special.643188/page-3#post-20435961

 

Crikey!

Tbf, I spent dozens of hours each month of lockdown researching fighters careers for my top 20 rankings in the original 8 weight divisions, making copious notes on Excel and Word. I probably learnt as much about boxing history in 2020 as I had in the 37 preceding years I'd been alive.