Whats the first (big)fight you remember watching?

With all the racist and fighter bashing threads around here it seems that everybody hates each other, but at the end of the day we all love boxing. Simple thread, what is the first fight you remember watching? or the fight that made you fall in love with boxing. How old were you? How was it? For me the first fight i remember watching was Leonard-Hagler. Fight took place in '87 but i must have seen a rerun a year or two later cause i was born in '84. So i was like 5 or so, i clearly remember thinking just before the fight started that Leonard was going to get hurt. He looked like too much of a nice guy to be fighting, but little did i know i was going to be amazed. It was a long time ago but i still remember it pretty clearly. I don't remember who i was with, either my parents or grand parents. But i remember asking them "Is the nice man going to get hurt?"(Talking about Sugar Ray Leonard.) Hagler looked like a pure badass, i thought the baby faced Leonard would lose for sure. Then the fight started i was still scared that Leonard was going to get hurt for the first round or two. But then Sugar Ray started throwing those blazing combinations and showboating, throwing bolo punches, showing his chin, ect. I was amazed at how fast and amazing the guy i first had pity for was. Thats when i fell in love with boxing. What about you guys?

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The_Italian

It was at my former next door neighbors house. they were some crazy filipino pacman fans... but they loved boxing and for all the PPV's on TV they'd invite a bunch of people over, BBQ, and enjoy the fights. I remember being young and seeing tyson v. holyfield I. I wasnt very old at the time 9 i think. Well since i use to hang out with one of their sons (he was in the same grade as me) i was over there and i saw a good portion of the fight...when tyson bit holyfield's ear i got confused and thought, "they do that in boxing?" haha. of course i ended up figuring out what happened. It was exciting but i didnt have HBO/SHO at home and my parents were not boxing fans so over time it faded in my memory. as i got older and finally got some HBO i started watching the fights on TV. of course i didnt know who any of the people fighting were but i took interest in learning the complexity of the sport and why a certain punch is good for countering this one and so on. when i was young i thought boxing was just sanctioned brutality...because thats who is portrayed on tv and in the commercials for PPV's...it would always show guys getting knocked out or down. once i seen this new angle of boxing and really learned all about the sport it was hard not to love it. the fight that turned me out as a full on hardcore fan had to have been corrales v. castillo I. i mean wow! if you cant get drawn in by that 10th round check your pulse because you dont have one. i love this sport.

16y ago

coufsax

DLH Quartey

16y ago

partacus

Tyson v Bruno 2

16y ago

Shadows

Tyson-McNeely :lol1:

16y ago

silentbob

Castillo - Corrales 1 for me. we were drinking in a bar that was showing a rerun of the fight. thought for sure chico was fcked, then bam... wtf happend..

16y ago

PittyPat

Barrera-Hamed, but I have this feeling I may have watched the first Benn-Eubank fight way before that...

16y ago

_v_e_t_

like, big? BIG??? its kind of embarrassing, but the first BIG fight i watched was ODLH/Mayweather

16y ago

Chrismart

When i was young ,i remember all the hype surrounding Eubank - Benn, not the actual fight though. First real memory is staying up late in bed and listening to Tyson - Bruno on my walkman.

16y ago

TheCheetah

Tyson Holyfield

16y ago

Uturn

Tyson vs Bruno 2 :)

16y ago

Mersey

Tyson Vs. Holyfield 1

16y ago

BattlingNelson

Ali-Foreman.