When did you start watching boxing?

very good analogy of esb.

 

This...and I apologize, I am guilty of feeding the trolls from time to time.

 

For me, I remember watching Mike Tyson a lot as a young kid on HBO. I remember the level of shock that my dad and cousin had when Tyson lost to Douglass. They were saying things like, "Do you think it was rigged? It looked like Mike took a dive there, didn't it?" They could fathom the idea that he had actually lost a fight.

After that, I kind of watched boxing matches on and off during the reign of Lennox Lewis. We stopped subscribing to HBO, but a friend had it and I watched a lot of the regular fights and pay-per-views at his house. I remember watching Tyson-Holyfield I and Lewis-Tua at his house, as well as the occasional Barrera or Morales scrap.

I stopped watching boxing - due mainly to lack of access to its carriers - for years until the Mayweather-De La Hoya fight got me back into it. It was almost as if I had found a long lost toy from my childhood that I still loved. I immediately started watching a ton of old fights on YouTube that I had missed during the gap between the Lewis years and the Mayweather-De La Hoya clash. I was like a sponge, and since then I haven't been able to stop watching it. I went from a mostly casual fan to a die hard fan almost overnight.

 

I don't watch boxing I am boxing.

 

my first boxing memories are watching dave boy green and charlie magri fighting on wednesday nights on the bbc

 

The fight i remember from USA was local CT guy Marlon Starling vs Mark Breland. Might have been ESPN though. Can anyone confirm this?

 

Pac vs Mosley in 2011. My wife was the one that dragged me to that fight. Fan ever since.

 

I boxed and participated in limited martial arts as a teen in the mid 1970s before breaking my back, which ended most contact sports for me. I was, however, exposed to some great boxers during that time and have kept boxing as my favorite sport since. First boxers I liked were Ali, Leonard, Hearns, and Duran. A heyday. Being in the Dallas area Curtis Cokes was a hero to those of us with Golden Gloves aspirations.

Based on recent threads, many people seem to be asking where boxing has gone. I think it's still there in the gyms and local clubs I got to be around as a kid. That also is where the excitement may still be found.

To this day, I am very good at picking fights involving fighters I follow and rarely fall for bad PPV promotions. I buy them sometimes- based solely on excellent undercards. Favorite boxing experience was taking my wife to Delahoya/Vargas in Vegas for our anniversary.

I've been a knowledgeable fan for about 42 years.

 

I started watching the day after Rahman ko'd Lewis. My older brother was shocked and showed me the clip. I ended up watching the whole fight and was hyped for the rematch. Been watching ever since

 

If you're talking bad blood that's got to be Mr Greg Haugen,

Loved TNF, watched it for years, I remember Bowe vs Elijah Tillery...Rock Newman climbing over the ropes lol

 

Watched Hagler minter when I was seven the blood and how mean hagler looked was quite shocking guys with shaved heads were rare back then.Watt Ogrady was another fight I watched that was a real blood bath in the poring rain I remember my dad saying Watt has nutted him! .those two fights were the first I remember properly.

 

Thank you! It was Haugen. I remember watching the fight live and they kept showing live remote shots of Haugen's family viewing the fight on closed circuit (wow I am old) and his Mom was up yelling and cursing at the TV.

We just don't get these bad blood fights like the golden days

 

i dont act like i know it all but considering the quality of posters on this board im forced to think that way