My mom told me a very interesting story last night.
My dad was a big Marvin Hagler fan, and since we didn't have cable, he would sometimes plan family vacations some that he would be able to watch a fight on HBO or ESPN at a hotel (I don't know why he didn't just get cable, LOL). My mom, who doesn't care about boxing, said that one time she was asleep during the fight, and she said when she woke up dad was crying.
She asked him why he was crying and he said it was because Marvin Hagler had been so great.
I asked mom when this had happened, she said that it was when I was about two years old or so. I was two years old in 1987...it was the Ray Leonard fight, which I was watching while she told this story.
I was very surprised by this (my dad's not the crying type of guy), and I thought I'd share the story. Anyone else have any weird stories like this?
I didn't know my mom knew about boxing, but apparently she recently told me she was a Sugar Ray Leonard fan.
Another story is that my dad ran into Thomas Hearns at Fort Lauderdale airport sometime in the 80s and no one knew it was Thomas Hearns, until my dad said, "HEY, TOMMY HEARNS!!!" Security came out and everything to protect him after that..