Which fight made you a fan of your now favourite boxer ?

Duran vs Davey Moore made me an ardent Duran fan, the way he dismantled and mauled Moore despite being written off was special, then he did it again vs Barkley as a midget geezer.

That made me a fan.

 

Archie Moore in his bout against Embrel Davidson. Knew he had power but that put it in perspective.

Marciano in his fight against Walcott 1

and Ali Rumble in the jungle

can’t just pick one favorite fighter

 

Frazier in Fight of the Century

 

This one:

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I became a fan of Johnson during the Burns fight. He could quite easily have been murdered hours from the win but he had fun the whole time damn the consequence's he lived for the moments pleasure and was defined by this his entire life. Became of fan of LaMotta after seeing him walk through fire against the GOAT to try and enforce his will he had a real fighters mentality. Watching Armando Castro for the first time fight Khaosai Galaxy was surreal I got out of my chair and was just winded by the robbery after watching Galaxy get mugged in front of all his fans it gets me angry talking about that fight then I binged all of Armando Castro's other fights M A C H I NE! modern Greb.

 

Larry Holmes Vs Norton

Ezzard Charles Vs Louis

Alexis Arguello Vs Escalera 2

 

As a kid of nearly 11 years old I was supporting my fellow Brit,Henry Cooper in his world title challenge against Muhammad Ali. Immediately afterwords I became an Ali fanatic. And still remain one.

 

Arguello...Can't pinpoint which just an accumulation.
Franklin (Saad) against Johnson ll
Benitez... against Palomino

 

Bowe

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Whitaker

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Well it is Thomas Hearns, and it was the first Leonard/Hearns fight. I was 16 and watching it and rooting for Ray who was the popular guy. Hearns was sort of the bad guy in the promotion.. And Tommy does well but loses, and then Ray retires and plays games on and off games, and Tommy fights on and fighrts everyone including Sutherland and Minchillo and defenses. Everyone, and I respected that more. He didn't play the games and he persevered even in his losses with Hagler and Barkley. I liked that.

 

That fight made me a fan of Coetzer's, actually. That guy took a lot of punishment and kept trying to win while clearly outmatched.

 

The Cooney fight made Larry my favorite. It seemed everybody and his yee-haw white brother was rooting for Cooney to take Larry's belt, and it pissed me off. I'm Italian-German and I hated the idea of anyone rooting for someone based on colour...it was especially aggravating to know Reagan had that special phone to call Cooney with upon victory...grrrr.

I already had huge admiration for Larry, saw him as easily the best heavy in the world, the heir apparent to Ali as far back as the Shavers II fight. Watching him knock down and then methodically dismantle Cooney was a cheer-fest for me.

I was further impressed when Larry looked terrific beating the yeah-hoo out of Cobb, to me he looked untouchable in that fight.

But my love for him deepened during the Witherspoon fight...he was all but stopped in the 9th round but he fought back as hard as he could "with the heart of a Champion"! And it was fun seeing how wise he was...he could see that Witherspoon threw the last, Championship rounds away bu hot-dogging and thinking he had the fight wrapped up. I always scored that fight two points ahead for Larry, but he had to do everything in his power to win that fight, and came across as a total ATG that night. He's been my favorite ever since, with Foreman and Ali receiving heavy honourable mentions.