what was the first ever fight you watched and what fight/fighter got you into boxing?

i was next to you

 

That's a helluva photo there fella.

As for what got me into boxing. I remember my Dad letting me stay up until the early hours to listen to the first fight v Tyson (I was 9). I was so psyched and then devastated when Big Frank was beaten. I watched his fights on the beeb too.

As I got older it was the great days of Benn etc that really got me into boxing. I remember jumping up and down like a loon when he overcame McClellan (oblivious to what was happening to G-Man)...........still feel guilty about that.

 

the first fight i saw was ali v cooper and then going to the boxing club when the local paper turned up.
i'd always loved boxing but didn't fight till i was a senior.it was the proudest moment of my life,getting lnto the ring for the first time even though i was on the end of a bad decision.

 

My first was the Ali v Spinks rematch. It wasn't until the emergence of Bruno that I started to get very interested though.

 

Benn vs Eubank 2 is the fiorst big fight i remember. Eubank is the first guy i remember watch allot.

 

I can remember watching Chris Eubank when i was young, and flashes of Lennox Lewis vs Frank Bruno...and Nigel Benn vs Chris Euabnk.

These are my first memories, not really vivid.

Well i was only about 5 or something.

 

i just kinda discovered boxing and decided to watch it 1 night

the first fight i watched was calzaghe bika


so calzaghe got me into boxing really

although my dad showed me hagler hearns and hagler leonard soon after so i would put it on hagler and leonard

my dad go inot boxing because of leonard although hes just a casual fan

 

i remember buchanan beating laguna and walter mcgowan winning his title
blood everywhere but it was in b & w so it didn't look too bad

 

thanks lads..

that was a few years ago...lad is nearly 14 now...and yep healy...he'll be cheering bernard dunne on with his old man...and you !!

i can imagine there'll be a lot of sligo rovers chat in the car on the way to the fight
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First fight I ever watched was Bruno vs Bugner, so I would have been seven at the time. I didn't start following boxing properly until I was around twenty one. I remember watching the odd Eubank, Bruno, Tyson fight inbetween and anything of Ali I could get my hands on.