What is your first boxing memory?

Tyson Bruno I.

I was 6.

 

I remember been in the gym when I was we with my granda man .Showing me how to throw a 12 .I was stood the wrong way southpaw .Funny how that stayed with me tae man the 12 .My mum found his scrapbook a few months ago remember that from when I was we as well .He turned pro in it and his first fight was fighting Don McTaggart 22 and 1 with 2 draws .Got beat though man .Only boxed twice in the pros though lost 2. I never got into boxing when he was around .
F--k sake i'm one for sad story's ain't I man .That's my first boxing memory though man he died in 96 .I found my Granda and my great uncle on boxrec thing is though I never got into boxing till about 4 yrs ago and am the only one in the family .Great uncle died 95 he was a journey man 16 win 8 loss 8 and founded the gym I go to now. Not that good but I was well happy when I found his boxrec .Seen saviours the 2 trainers Pat and John McCormack with Darren Sutherland in it .His best opponent was Jim Spike McCormack there old man .Got beat though man , ko'd .
http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=272193&cat=boxer

 

That's a big paragraph man lol .

 

Rushing home from school at dinnertimes to watch Audley in the Olympics. I have no idea why I started watching it but enjoyed it and have been a fan of boxing ever since. I must have been 12 at the time.

 

I think Lewis vs Tyson was the first fight I remember.

 

I remember watching boxing from 6 years old but couldn't tell you about the bouts etc, my first real memory has to be Benn McClellan , what a fight, Amazing

 

Corrr......i think it will be Tyson because he was released from Prison and the hype was a madness. I can remember watching Golota-Bowe I with my dad on a Sunday morning. I knew Bowe was good and Golota was beating **** out of him...then i watched as he chucked fight away...i can remember even back then as a 5 or 6 year old thinking ''what a ****ing idiot''....

 

lewis - tyson is the first fight i can remember

 

Benn Eubank 1

 

My next door neighbour (god rest his soul) was THE VERY FIRST PERSON that i ever seen when i was a kid that was into Boxing. Not Football, Cricket, Horse Racing etc, just Boxing. So i'd say that the first memory i have is of him Just really being a fan of the sport and always having the sport on and me catching glimpses of it as a kid.

That's how i first got introduced to the sport, through him watching it and me being friends with his son and hearing about the fights, actually hearing them on the tv (next door neighbour) and like i said, catching the odd glimpse of them as well.

Also up there, is when, around the late 80's when Mike Tyson was just ruining everyone. Again, i was only a kid, but everyone was just saying his name. From then you knew that he WAS BOXING to most regular joe's.

First memorable fight was Benn/Mcclellan as i watched it live on tv when i was about 10/11.

 

Hearing that Bruno had lost to Tyson (the second time) and seeing him coming out of airport on the news afterwards with shades on. I remember that pretty well

Also hearing that Holyfield had beaten Tyson (the first time). That was quite a shock. As a kid I had this idea of Mike Tyson as a mythical warrior who can't lose

 

This thread is making me feel old!!!!

 

I am certain I ma not making this up Hearns V Hagler in 1985 was on ITV late at night.

i watched it on black and white TV. I think I was 6 at the time. I still don't count myself as much more than a casual fan. If pressed, i could remember the name of the movie that was on beforehand. It had the Pet Shop boys as part of the sound track

if I am making it up. I genuinely don't want to know.


EDIT* I am not sure if it was live or not. I certainly didn't know the result.

 

David TKO1 Goliath?