with your poor boxing skills, lack of any real judgement and ****** looking face i would be suprised about that
What is your malfunction, Elite? Why don't you just stay away? No one wants you here. You may be young, but you're acting like a ****ing four year old.
I remember watching Larry Holmes fight Kenny Norton ... I remember how great the build up was.. I was captivated by it all..............
I started watching boxing on TV as a kid in the late 1970's. The 80's was a good time for boxing. Tyson, Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, and others. The sport was popular back then because the public knew who the fighters were. Today boxing is having a rough go in the USA. Why? I think this is a post from another forum gives insight was to why.
I started watching friday night fights in the early 60's, I remember watching Emile Griffith and Benny the kid Paret, I dont know if that was the 1st fight I ever watched but I remember seeing the N.Y. Daily news the next day then Paret died shortly after and it made an impact...I remember Archer/Griffith and I thought Archer won but that was a delay fight I think the week after but by the late 60's early 70's Boxing became my # 1 sport and I knew every champ and every division...we had a lot of telivised fights on weekends and the cable shows in the 80's like HBO showed the whole boxing card. I have been to many fights all over New York N.J. and elsewhere and today we have a lot of good fighters also...the olympics and nationals have produced a lot of good fighters but today we have many other fighting area that fighters come from and can be successfull in boxing
Great post. I was 10 years old and shocked to read in the sports page that my favorite fighter Joe Frazier got Ko'd by Foreman. Then I listened to the round to round news updates of Ali v. Frazier 2 on the local talk radio station. I was riveted. Then the Ali v. Foreman fight of 74' pretty much blew me and my classmates away. The thread starter is correct if memory serves me. There was a bit of a dry spell for great American fighters for a couple years there. Seems the networks weren't so hot on the other great fighters of the world, Duran, Monzon, etc... The 76' Olympics really help bring things back together. In the mean time Red Lopez, Matthew Franklin (Saad Muhammad), Marvin Johnson, those guys really got me going for live TV fights and seemed to carry the interest until the Olympians, mainly Leonard, started fighting for titles.
Globalization is good for the sport, in my opinion. It's also my main reason for believing that, as a whole, modern contenders (1950s/60s onward) are a more talented/better quality bunch than they tended to be pre-1950s. The champs were still very high-quality in the early days of boxing, but the divisions just weren't as deep.
Wealthy could have a point. Mike's career did lift up the sport in the absence of Hagler. Anyone around during that time must remember it. He was what you'd call a media favorite and who followed his every move. He rarely dissapointed, especially when he ended fights quickly-the crowd loved that. Mike was certainly more interesting than Lennox Lewis and I can honestly say this not being a fan of his. Bowe was my favorite heavyweight since Dempsey.
I think he does. Not to turn this into a Tyson thread, but there is no denying his impact in the mainstream conciousness back then. Some say he was bad for boxing, but I disagree strongly. He transcended the sport like nobody since Ali had done, and many many people became boxing fans purely because of him. That's not intended to insult or disrespect the smaller fighters during his era at all, but I don't know a person alive who doesn't know who Tyson is.
seeing as you haven't seen a proper picutre of me your claims have nothing to back them up, were as i know you are a **** boxer, charlie would ko you in 10 secs. I know you look like a little geek ******, and i know most people think your an idiot.:hi:
I started watching the Friday / Sat nite fights with my Dad in the mid-fifties and remember Robinson, Basilio, Fullmer, Tiger Jones, Pender, etc from that time frame. Then Ingo beats Floyd..... and I am reading a "True Magazine" about this bad dude from Florida named Sonny Liston and what would Ingo do if he hit Liston with his best shot and nothing happened. So I followed Liston the best I could until he bounced Floyd off the floor a couple of times. Then Clay / Ali came on the scene, and I started going to closed circuit fights of all weight classes and have been a fan of boxing ever since.