Interested in boxing?
How did you become a fight fan?
I remember watching Barry McGuigan, Roberto Duran, they were some of my first earliest memories of boxing, but the fights that really got me interested was watching Tyson and the heavyweight division.
Still at junior school I remember talking to my mates about Tyson, Spinks,Tony Tubs and Bonecrusher Smith.
A few years later I vividly remember the Benn vs Eubank fights, watching the big fights such as Lennox and then Naz and Calzaghe
With the advent of sky I began to watch less and less boxing, ocassionally buying boxing magazines to keep up to date and made sure I got somewhere to watch the mega fights.
But it took the internet age of youtube and other ways to view the fights to really to get me back on track in 2005 after being not following it as intently as I did.
Never miss a big fight now, and catch up with old fights that I may have missed.
What has your interaction been with the sport over the years?
What fights/fighters first got you
posted on 31/10/13
got me*
posted on 31/10/13
Naseem hamed
posted on 31/10/13
Yeah Naz was also a big part of it, he had the contract with ITV so you could watch his fights on terrestrial tv, he was awsome to watch when he was in his pomp but then seeing Barrera give him that lesson it opened up a whole new world of boxers to me.
posted on 31/10/13
Frank Bruno. Remember being up in the early hours watching him on ITV in the late 80s.
posted on 31/10/13
Pacman. There was no boxing prior to the Pipino legend. He is so fast he dodges raindrops. God says daily prayers to him.
posted on 31/10/13
Haggler, hearns, Duran,
posted on 3/11/13
Hagler vs Hearns - the fight
posted on 4/11/13
The Heavyweights of the early 70's. Out of the British fighters, John Conteh.
posted on 4/11/13
I too grew up watching McGuigan due to terrestrial TV. I also remember watchin Lloyd Honeghan (sp) beating Don Currie who was revered by many to be P4P the best at that time and Honeghan beat him. Superb night of boxing.
Tyson was the first real class fighter I really saw. I was around 11 at the time.
Then Roy Jones Jr was different class in his prime later on.
Next was De La Hoya, Hopkins, Calzaghe, and the mexicans (Barrera, Morales, Marquez)
For me at the moment its Floyd Mayweather Jr who I like to watch.
posted on 4/11/13
I meant to say "Tyson was the first real class heavyweight fighter I really saw. I was around 11 at the time."