Your favourite fighter of the 80's?

Hagler...and Tommy Hearns...

 

Imagine what youngsters who just got pulled into the big fight last weekend must be assuming !
The other end of the spectrum.

Luckily, these kids have the benefits of youtube

 

Duran,Saad Muhammad and John Conteh.So many more-what an amazing era!:thumbsup

 

Youtube is such a great thing for a boxing fan. The young fans now don't need to wonder at anything. When I first got into it, you watched what was on network TV and that was it.

I bought all the magazines too, and my favorite part was when they would occasionally re-print an old article from the 60's or 70's. I bought a lot of back issues from the early and late 70's too, just to fill my head.

But we had no access to any of these legendary fights we'd read about. It wasn't until the late 90's that I actually saw Sal Sanchez fight. I had been a fan back in the 80's based on what I'd read, but that was all I had.

 

I never take youtube for granted.
amount of money I spent in late 80s / early 90s on 4 hour mixed vhs tapes at 25 quid a pop...from adverts in back of boxing news

 

I bought mine from eBay. Horrible quality VHS tapes, career sets of Hagler, Holmes, Sanchez, Gomez..........glad to have 'em.

 

And the mail carrier had to trudge through three feet of snow uphill to deliver my poor-quality DVD's.


Things were hard then.

 

That's true, but it was kind of cool to get a rare fight or a fight that you really had wanted to watch back then.
Same as tape trading (music) back in the 80's too.
Things are much more easy to get hold of now and while as a fight fan that's obviously a good thing, it's slightly spoiled that 'ow wow' feeling of getting hold of a classic fight.

Not talking of hardcore fight collecting here, but I think you know what I mean.

 

had a collection of vhs tapes stolen from me in the early 90s...130 on last count....still gives me shivers some nights.

 

Gianfranco Rosi

 

Haha, same here regarding Rocky III. On a sidenote it's still one of those movies I watch every time it plays on the TV. Incidentally my first real fight was Holmes-Williams. Talk about polar opposites.

 

So many, really. Nice to see Boza mentioned. I'll throw in Honeyghan, too.

 

I did the same thing. I started following closely in early '84 when I stumbled across the new KO Mag. at People's Drug Store (now CVS). KO had the back issues of it and it's sister publications World Boxing, International Boxing and Big Book of Boxing available via mail order. I had some money saved up from my paper route. Over the next few years I would order the occasional back issue to learn about the mid to late '70's and early '80's boxing scene.

I remember they re-published old Newspaper boxing stories. I think the best ones were written by Jimmy Cannon. They had a story he had written about the controversial second Ali-Liston fight. He wrote, " You don't stop a bull's charge with bullets of lard." or something like that He also said, quite accurately in my opinion, "Boxing is the Red Light District of Sports."

 

I still have my VHS and DVD collection but almost all the fights are on you tube so they are gathering dust. I ordered old fights on DVD until 3 or 4 yrs ago. Then you tube got popular...................