which fighter(s) made you a boxing fan?

WHEN THE FIRST ROCKY came out a lot of my freinds got it to DRINKING RAW EGGS. I GET YOUR DRIFT it is al GOOD:good

 

Just watching my Naseem dvd , love it. I was about 13 or 14 when I 1st started watching boxing & if it wasn't 4 him, I defo wouldn't have been as interested as I am know, 12 yrs later!!

 

so funny when u c the people in the audience, Noel Gallagher, Joe Calzaghe,Jarvis Cocker & Steve Collins. God I feel so old lol

 

Duran vs Leonard

Leonard vs Hearns

......but what really got me hooked was watching the great Alexis Arguello do a number on Ray Mancini.

Tim Ryan of CBS once described Arguello as having an inimatable style.
The way Alexis bounced on his toes and made his lateral turns was different and unique in comparing the form of other fighters........Tim Ryan was correct, Arguello's style was "inimitable".....and as a 14 year old kid, I was mesmerized!

 

Watching the Tyson KO's in the early 90's. Later it was Manfredi, Spadafora,Tua, Gatti and the Klitchkos.

 

Oh & I just seen Gordon Ramsay! Thars funny cos see him at all the Amir fights. Always liked Ramsay but respect him a lot more now that I know he's been in2 boxing 4 yrs

 

Ali.. he is always being called the greatest and I actually believed the guy was the best there ever was and ever will be.I didn't follow boxing much in the 90's except for tyson, late 90's and 2000 there was the Oz superstar Tszyu,and the Brit hamed. I loved the punchers.
But still I wasn't in love with Boxing.A long came the Pac-man got be hooked into boxing.

 

Tough to say but the first big fight I can remember was Hearns Hagler and since then I was hooked,,:bbb

 

Bowe, Holyfield and to a lesser extent Nigel Benn.

 

Watching ODH with my dad

Then a few years ago I really got into boxing cause of Miguel Cotto, now I try and watch anything that fits into my scheduled, even got Showtime to watch the super-six tourny and the reg fights that come on

 

Tyson

 

Barry McGuigan
Sugar Ray Leonard
Mike Tyson

 

Tyson
tito
finito lopez
j c chavez

 

Barry McGuigan....was born in Belfast....

then Nigel benn - Mclellan/Holyfield.....and definately Naseem Hamed


though my fav fighter of all time is ROy Jones....met him at LAX airport...and have to say one of the nicest most approachable sportsman you will ever likely to meet...ashame he is fighting too long

 

Marvin Hagler, Jorge Paez and Mike Tyson.