Who was your childhood boxing heroes??

[digiram]

Growing up, I use to think that two fighters were invincible!!!

The great JCC and Iron Mike Tyson.

Other great fighters that loved watching as a kid.

Marvin Hagler, Donald Curry, Marlon Starling, Khaosai Galaxy, Larry Holmes, Boom Boom Mancini, Micky Ward, Michael Carbajal, Roger Mayweather.

Who are some of your child hood favorites??

[Amsterdam]

Pernell Whitaker mostly.

[digiram]

Pernell Whitaker mostly.

I know a lot of peeps on ESB love Sweat Pea, but I couldn't stand how he would always goof and clown around in the ring. He's one of the most talented and gifted fighters ever in the game of boxing, and imagine a 100% diciplined and focused Sweet Pea. I have to admit that this guy is so good, he is able to succeed while playing around and goofing off in the ring, and messing with drugs outside of the ring.

[GazOC]

Ray Leonard.

[maciek4]

Chris Eubank, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr, Evander Holyfield, Naseem Hamed, Erik Morales

[heerko koois]

Rudy Koopmans , bep van Klaveren....

[Napoleon]

Vitali and Wlad Klitschko

[THN]

Muhamed Ali and Tom Bogs

[knockout]

Mike Tyson i use to think no one can beat him.

[chliJs]

graciano rocchigiani

[McGrain]

Frank Bruno was my first boxing hero.

I still have a soft spot for the big guy.

[heerko koois]

:!: [quote=knockout]Mike Tyson i use to think no one can beat him.

I lost a big bet on the Douglas fight .........au[Only registered and activated users can see links]

[Mundo]

Jcc

[knockout]

:!: [quote=knockout]Mike Tyson i use to think no one can beat him.

I lost a big bet on the Douglas fight .........au[Only registered and activated users can see links] tyson lost i was very shocked,i was in this belive.i think i was 10 at the time.

[heerko koois]

[quote=heerko koois]:!: really,when tyson lost i was very shocked,i was in this belive.i think i was 10 at the time.

I was 21 at that time ....seems like yesterday.....

[Lex]

When I was a kid, Ali was da man. And I enjoyed watching Frazier too.

As a teenager, Duran, Victor Galindez, Carlos Monzon. Okay, sure, Monzon wasn't quite "hero" material personally, but he thrashed a lot of boxers I respected.

Everybody on the 1976 U.S. Olympic boxing team. I was 18, in boot camp, and we all spent as much of our off-time as possible watching those guys. And, yeh, I'll admit it... we watched a lot of women's gymnastics too. C'mon, give us a break - we hadn't been around women much for weeks! :nut

[Toopretty]

Mike Tyson was my generations hero. I mean...we loved Tyson. I mean being that young and wanting to watch a Mike fight...priceless

[sjc]

Rocky Balboa

Apollo Creed

[Toopretty]

Teenager I liked Whitaker/JCC superstar/Tito/Toney. Never like Camacho or big head MCgirt and Holyfield.

[jackiebrown]

i wasnt much into boxing as a little little kid .. but once i hit 16 about 00-01
i was reaaally really into the oscar delahoya/felix trinidad/shane mosley / winky wright/fernando vargas .. fab 5 series

[Rollo]

The top-three heavyweights of the golden era; Ali, Frazier, Foreman.

[BobDigi5060]

DLH and Trinidad. I remember watching DLH/Chavez in Mexico and seeing a riot unfold right before me. Bar stools and bottles were being thrown all over the place. I remember staying up till midnight just to watch DLH/Trinidad make their ring entrances.. And my Mom crying when DLH lost.

I prefer DLH's technique but love the way Tito carries himself. I studied DLH a lot as a amateur because we are both slender and he was excellent in using his body style.

[brooklyn1550]

When I was a teenager, it was Roberto Duran. He was the guy who was responsible for me getting into boxing and eventually deciding to fight.

[boxeo#1]

De La Hoya

[bumdujour]

chavez, fenech, jaime (rocky) balboa, hector camacho, sean o´grady, greg haugen, tracy spann, buddy mcgirt, tommy morrison, carlos monzon, marty jakubowski (cause i met him), leonard, de la hoya, eric holland, bert cooper, jose luis ramirez.........and many others.

[van the man]

tyson , ali , rocky balboa

[Unchained]

Iron Mike Tyson and Evander the Real Deal Holyfield.

[Astola]

Frank Bruno was my first boxing hero.

I still have a soft spot for the big guy.

I feel the same about Bruno - dunno why but the dude was just amazing.

Bruno and Tyson really got my attention as a kid.

[robert ungurean]

Duran
Hagler
Holmes

[RafaelGonzal]

Wilfredo Gomez
Roberto Duran

[dave82]

Ray Leonard, great boxer and entertainer. I loved his wind ups

[pipe wrenched]

I'm 30 yrs. old and my dudes were without doubt Iron Mike, also Holyfield, and RJJ. Oh yeah Sugar Ray Leonard cause his vs Hagler was one of the first fights I remember watching (and was probably the only one my parents and their freinds were talking about in the build up and excited about).

[ko factor]

Luisito Espinosa
Gerry Penalosa
Oscar Dela Hoya
Mike Tyson
Sweet Pea Whitaker
Finito Lopez

[bigjake]

muhammad ali

george chuvalo

floyd patterson

jerry quarry

[Alo2006]

Ali, SRL

[salsanchezfan]

Hagler was the first guy I really admired and tried to emulate. I was a clumsy ox in the ring, but it still helped to have someone like him to inspire me on to further beatings.



I kind of envy the younger fans in this day and age. When I became a boxing fan in 1983, we of course had no computers, no youtube, no convenient access to much of anything historic other than the odd magazine article or book. Every once in a while, ESPN would air an old Duran lightweight title defense or Ali-Frazier II, or for a rare treat a Matthew Saad Muhammad fight. Those occasions were special.

It was only a bit later when I got ahold of some tapes of Sal Sanchez fights; I'd been intrigued by what I'd read for years and already decided he was cool, but the fights themselves cemented it.

[Illmatic]

Trinidad, Tito, and Felix.

[Calroid]

Thomas Hearns

[Flatlander]

Sugar Ray Robinson

Floyd Patterson

Ali

Foreman

Lyle

Shavers

[hitman_hatton1]

mike tyson and nigel benn.

i went off tyson though cos of his antics.

[ozziebattler]

Mike Tyson and Tommy Morrison..

I still believed Tommy was a top boxer with tremendous heart who due to his bad social activities had his career cut short..

And no real need to comment on Mike,im still shattered that he didnt live up to his true potential.

[Sai]

Benn and Eubank. I remember watching their fights with my Dad. Good times!

[Grabonator]

As a young child i was not interested in boxing. I started to like boxing when i was 13 years old. But back then, i only knew some german fighters like Ottke, Michaelshewski and Klitschkos and i was never rooting for Ottke because he was boring and always runned away. I was verry interested in Tyson but i never saw a fight of him in germany. But some day i found some interesting pages in the internet about boxing like forum and boxrec and how to download american fights and fights of the past. Today im 20 years old and i know almost every boxer today and the greats from the past and my alltime favourite is Tyson.

[DanePugilist]

Hagler as a kid. Tyson from he was 16 or 17.

[Titan1]

Sugar Ray Leonard
Michael Spinks
Jeff Chandler
Super Greg Page
Donald Curry
Marvin Hagler
Michael Dokes
Eusebio Pedroza
Larry Holmes
Marlon Starling
Milton McCrory
Ray Mancini
Alexis Arguello
Aaron Pryor.

[faisal]

the backstreet boys

[Franchise_411]

Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson

[Warfist]

Andrew Golota.

[196osh]

Frank Bruno was my first boxing hero.

I still have a soft spot for the big guy.

Me too. :D

Also Roy obviously.

[2FasT]

Sugar Ray Leonard

[Steel Kelly]

Ali, Olivares and Duran all got me interested in boxing. Monzon too but what an asshole he turned out to be, great fghter though!

[SMASHER YATES]

well lets see..

1.MIKE TYSON
2.EVANDER HOLYFIELD
3.JEFF FENECH
4.OSCAR DE LA HOYA

[this bloke]

as a kid tyson
then rjj and kostya tszyu

[Smith]

Me? The fighters I paid attention to when I was a kid where Arguello, Prince Naseem, Lennox Lewis, & Nigel Benn

[SMASHER YATES]

Me? The fighters I paid attention to when I was a kid where Arguello, Prince Naseem, Lennox Lewis, & Nigel Benn:patsch how could i forget LENNOX LEWIS:patsch

[Tony Harrison]

Eubank was my favourite fighter.

I always liked Paul Ingle too and was gutted when Hamed beat him though I did appreciate watching Hamed.

[joe the great]

Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns and Marvin Hagler.

[knockout]

Tyson.

[El Presidente]

Felix "Tito" Trinidad

[TFFP]

Naz
Lewis

[thanosone]

El Gran Campeon Mexicano Julio Cesar Chavez!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah and Mike Tyson.

[doefler182]

Big George Foreman and Tommy Morrison

[H .]

Tyson (while undisputed champ)

[joe33]

Nigel benn
Frank bruno
Steve collins
Barry mcguigan

[joe the great]

I almost forgot Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Rocky Marciano.

[AliFrazier71]

Sugar Ray Leonard, Felix Trinidad

[Mind Reader]

Im 23, so Roy Jones Jr really got me into it, also liked Evander Holyfield, Marco Antonio Barrera, Shane Mosley as i got older.

[cardstars]

Marvin Hagler. Didn't get a title shot until his 40th fight I believe and then got robbed.....so he started knocking out people. Nice guy to boot.....he still is my hero

[psychopath]

Ali; JCC; SRL and Salvador Sanchez

:hey :good

[rodney]

Muhammed Ali

[beerman]

Hagler, O'Grady, Duran, Yaqui Lopez, Holmes, Sanchez..

[liljp361]

ODLH - Mike Tyson - Floyd Mayweather...

[Jambon]

Hagler made an eternal boxing fan out of me. Storys of Ali told by my father too.

[SchweitzerMan]

Thomas Hearns

Before I was into the sport, I always thought boxers were huge muscle men. He changed my mind because his body (at welterweight) was just like mine

[huki]

The closest thing to a "boxing hero" that I had when I was a kid was Mike Tyson. I watched his fights obsessively back when I was about 8 years old.

[john garfield]

SRR will always be my hero. These are the reasons why:

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[cuchulain]

Ali, Frazier, Foreman, Duran, Tiger, Foster, Conteh, Cooper,Finnegan....

[Fab2333]

Roy Jones Jr
Zab Judah
Mike Tyson

[Scar]

Mike Tyson.

[unclepaulie]

tyson. im an 80's baby. what can i say.

[theunderdog]

tyson for sure

[Boom_Boom]

Mike Tyson

[bratwurzt]

Frank Bruno was my first boxing hero.

I still have a soft spot for the big guy.

You said it for me.

[HammerHead]

Carmen Basillio, Kid Gavilan, Rocky Castillano, Chico Vejar, Hurricane Jackson

ROBERTO DURAN, Sean O'geady, Matt Franklyn/Mathew Saad Muhamad,

& my first wife. she wasn't much of a fighter, but she could sure take a punch!

[Healy]

Wayne McCullough, Prince Naz, Tyson, Steve Collins and RJJ

[Holmes' Jab]

When I was growing up my fave fighters were: Evander Holyfield, Meldrick Taylor and Nigel Benn. Like many though it was Tyson's reign of fury which first got me interested in the sport, well along with the fact my dad and grandad were/are boxing nut's as well. Tales of Ali, Frazier and Liston got me hooked.

I had fun trawling through his endless collection of 'Ring' mags and 'Boxing News' (the only occasions I was allowed to stay up really late were for were the big fights and MOTD. Great stuff!).

[kirk]

Fernando Vargas
Ricardo Mayorga
Wlad Klit

[Dorfmeister]

Matthew Saad Muhammad, Michael Spinks, Livingstone Bramble and later on -Norbert Ekassi, Giovanni Parisi, Carl Thompson, Evander Holyfield...

[lillarry]

Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe got me into boxing

[C HOP]

Prince Nasseem

He made boxing exciting n enjoyable to watch!

[Bigcat]

I loved to watch Larry Holmes , i remember the Norton and Carl Williams fights so well..........

[RICH]

Marvin Hagler - Suger Ray Leonard- Mike Tyson There Are More But Those Are My Top Favorite Fighters Of Yester Year! Good Moments From Those Guys