What Started Your Addiction to Boxing

[acb]

What fight, or what fighters are responsible for your love of boxing?

I have watched boxing since the late 80´s when I was a kid, but it was Tito Trinidad and Roy Jones Jr that made me really love boxing in the late 90´s. The fights that I will allways remember most are the Barrera vs Morrales wars.

Of the old time fighters, I love SRR, Pep, Kid Chocolate and Gavillan, Ezzard Charles, Armstrong, etc. Of todays fighters, its RJJ, Barrera, Trinidad, and Morrales.

[Napoleon]

I had Klitscko's fights on tape, I watched those and then so on.

[GazOC]

The end of Alis career and the beginning of Leonards.

[josak]

Mike Tyson

[Jose FM]

Tyson...

[Zakman]

Like many in my generation, it all began with the great Muhammad Ali. The fight that REALLY got me hooked, though, was the first Leonard-Hearns fight. After that I was at TOTAL diehard, and have been ever since.

[cross_trainer]

I had always been interested, but strange as it sounds the original Fight Night game got me truly hooked.

[brooklyn1550]

Roberto Duran

[Taffyy]

I can remember the fuss at the time of Bruno v Witherspoon......... My father was right up for it & I can remember him talking to my uncle & grandad about it..........It sort of started from there.................Then Mr Tyson came on the scene & that was it !!!!!!!!

[Zhaakal]

Hmmm.. Tyson i think. Floyd and Oscar ressurected that addiction

[McGrain]

What fight, or what fighters are responsible for your love of boxing?.

Mike Tyson.

[pjo479]

joe frazier vs ali i was 11 but i already had interest in boxing i was already a yr into boxing myself at the time....

[dranon]

arturo gatti and diego corrales ...wasnt a huge fan until i saw them fight .now i watch every fight i can.

[1-Ton]

Holyfield v Foreman

[CASH_718]

James Toney, Mike Tyson and Naseem Hamad.

[Sai]

Benn/Eubank

[McGrain]

Benn/Eubank

Yeah.

They were a big part of my second wave.

[Goose]

Martial Arts and Tyson

[Andrey]

THE READ DEAL EVANDER HOLYFIELD upsetting Mike TYSON.

THAT WAS LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Andrey

[Bigcat]

The end of the Larry Holmes reign.. Mike Spinks and Mike Tyson...

The 84 Olympics and Tyrell Biggs fabulous performances sold the idea of massive heavyweights moving so gracefully.. amazing time.

[DanePugilist]

Ali-Frazier 2 was my first experience - I was a bit young, but it helped I got the Superman-Ali comic.

I really started following boxing around '79 with Mogens Palles pro fights. The coverage of boxing has always been failing in Denmark, so my knowledge wasn't extensive.

[Oscar de la Roa]

at first it was JC Chavez, I mean he was an hero here in mexico, then I saw his fights against dlh and I used to hate him, but just like floyd right now, dlh got my respect and is one of may fav fighters nowdays

[ferd cloupes]

Ali then John Conteh

[marting]

I knew this extraordinary guy with pugilistica dimensia who fought in the teens, twenties, and 30's last century that won more than he lost but could only remember the ones he won. In his damaged mind he was undefeated. He had about a 30 second cognitive memory but he could describe his fights from 50 years earlier with dramatic skill.

[cardstars]

(coming from a younger guy here keep in mind) mayweather/dlh got me EXTREMELY addicted. All the hype of that fight just hooked me. I watched a little here and there before that, but that fight hooked me more into boxing ten fold. Pretty sure it did for some of my buddies too - even though I keep telling them that that fight was a stinker compared to some others I have seen.

[Bazooka]

For me it was the 1984 Olympics, America had the best fucking team I mean we had it all.

[HeavyFisted]

You Tube....Being able to go and see so many old great fights has got me hooked. Whenever I am bored I just look for a fight.

I would really only get into boxing when there were big fights (Tyson, DLH, etc..) but now I cant get enough of it!! This board is sweet too....learn lots of good stuff here.

[SavonSolis]

watching Savon when i was younger and Tyson

[Sonny's jab]

I can remember the fuss at the time of Bruno v Witherspoon......... My father was right up for it & I can remember him talking to my uncle & grandad about it..........It sort of started from there.................Then Mr Tyson came on the scene & that was it !!!!!!!!

Bruno-Witherspoon and the rise of Tyson in 1986 was what turned me into a hardcore fan.

I remember watching boxing earlier, notably Ali-Holmes, Alan Minter, and the Barry McGuigan world title fights, but it was the Bruno-Witherspoon fight that got me obssessed.

[El Bombasto]

Reading about Ali's career in old Sports Illustrateds, watching Tyson

[Irish Steel]

When I saw Ward VS Gatti. I was hooked on ward ever since.

[pipe wrenched]

The mighty Iron Mike Tyson of course.

[Decy]

I guess like most people my age (44) Ali got me interested.But my real interest started with Jim Watt(very underated) and Colin Jones after that i boxed myself for a while then discovered drink and drugs(like any young man should).Then Nigel Benn came along and i have been hooked ever since.

[Mike T]

Hearns,Hagler and Tyson

[Bad_Intentions]

the first boxing fight i saw was tyson v.s holyfield II (which was in 1997 (i think) , after seeing that fight i started getting hooked on boxing.. but in 2000 was when i was really getting into boxing when i bought knockout kings 2000. i started researching some of the boxers and then thats how it started, after it i started watching espn classic fights.

[VIP]

Learning and reading about Ali, watching the docu, "When we were Kings".

[Astola]

Bruno vs Tyson 1.

And "when we were kings" made me smile:good

[Scar]

Mike Tyson.

[H .]

Tyson, then the Klits.

[warrior85]

the rocky films 1st,then saturday fight night,as a kid in the early 90s it seemed as if benn,bruno,lewis or eubank were fightin every weekend,then i discovered ali&tyson&it grew from there

[Action]

Sonny Liston

[Pimp C]

My family loves boxing and I just grew up watching it from a s early as I can remember.The 80s is what did it for me. People like Duran, SRL, Hagler, Hearns, Chavez, Tyson and Pea.

[cannabis]

ali/frazier 1 got me into boxing........i remember the older guys on the block talking about them. i was about 8 yrs old at the time. next day's paper had a pic of frazier's face all puffy and lumped up and i got mad. that's when i became a fan of frazier and of boxing in general. ali/frazier 2-3 really got me into it.

[S!F]

I really started to get into boxing when tyson came back from prison. Then I started following the careers of Lennox Lewis, Holyfield, Oscar De La Hoya, B-Hop, Roy Jones Jr, Felix Trinidad, Shane Mosley, Vargas etc.

[Chief_Second]

holyfield v bowe 2...good card with an old t.hearns and david tua fighting also. in the uk we had also had a good herbie hide v dixon + card fight as a build up. (still got it all on VHS)

[SevenSamurai]

Chris Eubank vs. Nigel Benn the first fight.:deal