What fight "turned you on to boxing"

Yes, and I've enjoyed many Holyfield fights as well, especially the Bowe trilogy.
Anyway, we're not that big of a community that we can't enjoy each others company and have a little fun.

Merry Christmas !!

 

Had to be Ali-Liston II in May 1965 up in Maine...

 

Las Vegas hotel room. Frazier-Ali one. The left-hook that dropped Ali.

 

Patterson - Ingo I

 

I watched a lot of tyson fights when i was a child,but not a boxing fan.
i have to say eddie chambers derrick rossy 1

 

Sorry Burt,

I meant the July one at Earls Court when our boy won.

 

Again you are right Burt, but Randy still managed to stop Don C**kell ( had him down a few times ) after that, and 3 years before Marciano did.

 

He outpointed Charles Humez which was a good win but got outpointed himself by Bobo Olson who he should really have beaten but didn't train hard enough and hardly sparred.
In the Olson fight he showed the mettle that he had even when his defence and chin were porous.
He gambled on stopping Olson in 3 rounds but when he didn't he just had to take a one sided beating.
Turpin will never be forgotten on this side of the pond and seems to have left his mark with older (sorry Burt) fans in the states.

 

Good fight to be turned on to boxing by IMO...it's a flawless performance by Ingo...I love his strategy in this fight...one that I was making reference to in one of those hypothetical matchups.....Johansson vs ****ey....I'm of the opinion that Ingo had a more efficient delivery system than ****ey...though I was outnumbered in that opinion 10 to 1, lol.

 

If I wasn't already life long boxing fan already, I would have become one by watching Eddie Mustafa Muhammad vs Marvin Johnson.

 

^ That was in an earlier lifetime.


In my present life, I cannot recall which fight it was but it had to be some tv fight from the late 1950s. My dad was a Boricua who fought as a smoker in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in the late 1920s-early 30s. Pro boxing was his passion and he enjoyed Ring magazine and others. Naturally, I learned to love the sport from him.

 

During the Trojan war ? S, there are other ways to practice birth control...atsch

 

spinks vs dwight braxton(later qawi) i like the way Dwight fought and i was intrigued by the large height difference.

 

I think it was Zarathustra who said "good karmas will yield a happier rebirth". Karma has dictated that I was always destined to be a perpetual boxing fan.

 

First fight I remember watching as a kid on TV was Ali-Folley. I was sold! First fight I ever saw live was when I was 10 years-old, George Chuvalo vs Johnny Featherman in Penticton, BC. One Round Ko win for Chuvalo