What made you a fan of boxing?

Tyson and my dad. My dad is a big boxing fan and he used to watch tuesday night fight on USA network. So i started to get into boxing more. Everytime there's a PPV fight i would go with him to a friends house and watch the fight.

Bowe-Holyfield 1-2-3
Jones-Toney
Whitaker-Mcgirt
Whitaker-Chavez

Some of the fights i remember back then.

 

My Mum and Dad waking me up in the middle of the night to go downstairs and watch Mike Tyson in the '80s. I'd have been about 10 or 11 years old at the time and those nights were as exciting as Christmas for me. Some of my most treasured childhood memories those...

 

sugar ray leonard vs hearns . That made me a fan. i have seen a few fights before that as a child but that is the one.


would also like to mention Marlin starling and young james toney . WOW

 

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Back in the 80's when I was a kid, boxing was on regular free-to-air TV. I got to see Hagler, Leonard, Hearns etc and later Benn, Eubank et al, all for free. That's what made me a fan. Today boxing is a dying sport because the kids don;t get to see any.

 

Purse splits and ppv numbers.

 

when floyd mayweather first appeard on mtv cribs and then manny pacquiao winning the elections made me a hardcore fan.

 

I randomly started watching Hajime no Ippo after having the series recommended to me and i loved it. Started watching boxing on HBO and Showtime and before I knew it I was recording classic fights on ESPN, buying books on boxing and joined a boxing gym. An awesome sport that is in desperate need of being restructured.

 

Hell ****ing yes. Greatest manga/anime of all time, even if it's gotten stupid after David Eagle.

 

Floyd Baldomir fight. Seeing floyd entering the arena in a ferrari.

 

My grandma..she use to make me watch boxing with her when she baby-sat me.

Looking back at it, it was hillarious.

Here you have my old white haired grandma, my crippled uncle who was paralized from the neck down since almost birth, and a 5 year old watching fights on the spanish channel, betting pennies and nickels against each other.

Good times :yep

 

after stepping into a boxing gym

the philosophy and the life lesson it teaches

oscar/rjj era growing up in the 90s

 

my father.

taking me to see the golden gloves every year at the Elks lodge on Queens Boulevard.