How did u guys get intrested? this is my story
Muhammad ali planted the seed. Id watch old ali fights if i saw them but only his and very rarely. Then marciano cought my eye. I Watched a marathon of his fights and i was so excited i had to find out more. I became obsessed with muhammad ali and marciano. I began reading biographys watching their fights looking them up online. But i kept noticing that joe louis was talked alot about. So i did a little light research on him. Just an internet search is all. In reading about joe louis i heard of surgar ray robinson. I looked him up on youtube and was amazed. I fipped through the channels on my tv one day and saw the countdown to gati mayweather. I recorded it and i became obsessed with gati. My brother became obsessed with mayweather. it became a feud and still is to this day. When mayweathr won I was embafassed and as a result had to prove that i knew as much about boxing as he did. I looked up boxing online and read about winly wright. After that i became the hard core fan that i am today.
I've always liked boxing since i was young but it was only when i saw lewis vs tyson thati started really getting into it. Also when the first contender series started i really made me wana box with all the training scenes in it and the edited fights it was well good.
FNF...I used to watch them and get into it. In November of 2004, my dad built a scale that the heavyweights weighed in on at Madison Square Garden, my dad met Don King, and got his autograph and pictures with him. He got four free $1200 tickets and took his friend, me and my brother, and ever since then I was hooked, best night of my life.
I was into martial arts as a kid and used to do a lot of tournaments and was successful at point fighting. But one day when I was 16 years old. My neighbor had a birthday party and we were all sitting in his backyard and someone thought of the idea of having a backyard brawl. So we picked teams and I was favored to win my fight easy, but the Mexican kid who I fought was a boxer and he owned me during the fight. After the fight Roberto (Mexican boxer) and I exchanged numbers and he introduced me to his uncle who was his boxing coach. I am 36 years old now and I am still good friends with Roberto. He was the guy that introduced me to the Sweet Science and I forever thankful.
I got into boxing because my dad watched it a lot and I remember him getting the Ring magazine. I remember we used to watch a lot of the fights on HBO or whatever channel they were on and then when there was a PPV fight we would go over to my uncle's house who was also a huge boxing fan. The fighters I remember watching the most when I was young was Sugar Ray Leonard and Mike Tyson.
Earliest memories I have... a young Naseem Hamed winning his first world title, Chris Eubanks first loss to Steve Collins. I have real vague memories of Nigel Benn vs. Gerald McClellan, and Lennox Lewis getting TKO'ed by Oliver McCall.
In my family my parents have always been boxing mad, and my dad was even actively involved himself back in the day. Me and all of my brothers were all brought up with boxing on the tv, boxing magazines and books strewn all across the house, autographed pictures of Roberto Duran hanging on the bathroom was etc (wtf, haha).
I guess the first fight I actually watched was probably late 80's, but I only really started paying attention in the mid 90's. And my parents wonder why I was a violent problem child.
I was about nine years old and a friend of mine taped WWF Survivor Series for me, when he gave me the tape, their was a boxing match at the beginning, I was pretty peeved that I had to fast forward it to get to the 'good stuff'. I remember I was chuffed to bits that Brett Hart beat Shawn Michaels. In a fit of excitement I decided to watch that fight that I had hastily skipped and low and behold, a certain Lennox Lewis KTFO Razor Ruddock, What was even better was that this Lennox fellow seemed a really nice guy but I was bowled over by that performance. I've been a boxing fan ever since and and Lewis my favorite. In an ironic way, the Benn/McClellan fight cemented my love the sport.
I'm an old head. I got to see a lot of the classic fights on Sat tv or listened to round by round on the radio for free. My dad was a big Ali fan. The ticket to see Ali vs Norton was $8.50 in 1973! lol The sad part was we couldn't afford the price back then. Shit, $10 was a weeks worth of groceries back then. My dad is dead now and he would be dissapointed in the state of boxing today.
hooks, so your really a boxing noob if you just started to follow boxing after the corralles/castillo fight. well, welcome to the club.
That was the fight that did it for me too. So I'm a noob as well, hehe!
My Grandfather was a boxing fan. He passed away in the early 90's. Whenever I watch a fight, I think of him and regret that we could never share this.
Grew up in a boxing family. Close relative is a boxing promoter..It just clicked. Plus in my early teen years I ballooned up to enormous 200 pounds on a 5'5 frame found boxing to lose weight...The rest is history.
My dad built a scale that they weighed all the fighters on for November of 2004's "Struggle for Supremacy", he went to weigh ins, met Don King, got an autograph, and hung out for the whole deal. He got 4 free tickets from Madison Square Garden, and brought me, my brother, and one of my dads friends. We had $1200 seats, and that's what got me into boxing, since then I haven't been the same, best night of my entire life, wish I could go back.
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My dad (left) with Don King on the scale
For me, it was when Naseem Hamed fought Paul Ingle. I wasn't much of a boxing fan before that, but after watching Naz, I was completely interested. After that, I started watching the HW division with Lennox and Golota and the other big boys.
watching the baddest man on the planet picking up his mouthpiece after ten rounds of beating got me interested in the sport (tokyo 1990). i am a filipino and a luisito espinosa fan. too bad a bout between luisito and prince hamed didn't pull through.... i'm still disappointed till this day... LOL
I learned to love the sport of boxing through my father, and grandfather, two of greatest men I have ever met.
I learned to respect boxers as athletes as I became more involved in conditioning.
It was three things for me.
1. I was poor as a kid and didn't have cable, so me and my dad would watch the Rocky movies on recorded tapes.
2. A long article in Sports Illustrated that took me like a week to read about a country boy from Pensacola who raised fighting roosters. I never and still haven't missed one of his fights.
3. A young Mexican-American in the 1992 Olympics that promised his mother a gold medal. My dad and I would wake up according to the time that Oscar de la Hoya was fighting that summer. I still haven't missed one of his fights, and I'm saving my 1964 Padron cigar for the last one (you know who).
I was a HW fan since the The ALI SPINKS fights.. BUT it was ODLH who trurned me into a BOXING fan The first time I SAW him fight I didnt even KNOW who he was.. But I was BLOWN away.. He was made me realise the REALLY good fights are at the lower weights... I still love the HEAVIES .. but I OWE Oscar BIG time...
It was three things for me.
1. I was poor as a kid and didn't have cable, so me and my dad would watch the Rocky movies on recorded tapes.
2. A long article in Sports Illustrated that took me like a week to read about a country boy from Pensacola who raised fighting roosters. I never and still haven't missed one of his fights.
3. A young Mexican-American in the 1992 Olympics that promised his mother a gold medal. My dad and I would wake up according to the time that Oscar de la Hoya was fighting that summer. I still haven't missed one of his fights, and I'm saving my 1964 Padron cigar for the last one (you know who).
I was a HW fan since the The ALI SPINKS fights.. BUT it was ODLH who trurned me into a BOXING fan The first time I SAW him fight I didnt even KNOW who he was.. But I was BLOWN away.. He was made me realise the REALLY good fights are at the lower weights... I still love the HEAVIES .. but I OWE Oscar BIG time...
It was three things for me.
1. I was poor as a kid and didn't have cable, so me and my dad would watch the Rocky movies on recorded tapes.
2. A long article in Sports Illustrated that took me like a week to read about a country boy from Pensacola who raised fighting roosters. I never and still haven't missed one of his fights.
3. A young Mexican-American in the 1992 Olympics that promised his mother a gold medal. My dad and I would wake up according to the time that Oscar de la Hoya was fighting that summer. I still haven't missed one of his fights, and I'm saving my 1964 Padron cigar for the last one (you know who).