Do you remember these nights???

I ran two miles in the rain at night at age 15 to watch Arguello-Pryor through squiggly lines on an HBO that we didnt have...then afterwards I ran back to my fathers apartment...

For the Holmes-Cooney fight, my parents did not want me to go because there were concerns about racial violence. If you recall, it was a nasty build-up and there wound up being some scuffles at the Forum. I had just turned 13 and my uncle told my parents he was taking me to a movie...then we went to watch the fight. I won a bunch of money betting on Holmes. Well, a "bunch" as far as a 13 year-old was concerned! Hard to believe but there were also police snipers on the surrounding buildings in case violence broke out.

the first fight i remember watching was hagler vs leonard. i was 5 years old and watching it in my living room with my dad. i used to have these marvin hagler boxing gloves that i would always wear around the house, i had them on for the duration of the fight. i grew up right next to brockton so hagler was a childhood hero (along with hulk hogan) to me. we were pretty bummed about him losing. my father and i still feel that hagler edged it. we had taped it on our vcr and i would watch that fight all the time, usually on saturday mornings before the cartoons would come on. but the tape got lost over years of moving around. the tape also had the movie "splash" with tom hanks. we had another tape with pryor vs arguello 1 that i liked a lot too. we would always have fight parties back then, so i most likely saw hagler vs hearns, but hagler-leonard is the first one i distinctly remember watching. You might be mistaken...or maybe it was tape delay the following week on HBO, because that fight wasnt on home TV, it was on closed circuit at the local civic centers etc...

the first fight i remember watching was hagler vs leonard. i was 5 years old and watching it in my living room with my dad. i used to have these marvin hagler boxing gloves that i would always wear around the house, i had them on for the duration of the fight. i grew up right next to brockton so hagler was a childhood hero (along with hulk hogan) to me. we were pretty bummed about him losing. my father and i still feel that hagler edged it. we had taped it on our vcr and i would watch that fight all the time, usually on saturday mornings before the cartoons would come on. but the tape got lost over years of moving around. the tape also had the movie "splash" with tom hanks. we had another tape with pryor vs arguello 1 that i liked a lot too. we would always have fight parties back then, so i most likely saw hagler vs hearns, but hagler-leonard is the first one i distinctly remember watching.

you would have LOVED to have been a fan in the 80's then...EVERY WEEKEND there were fights on free network TV...BIG fights with big names...world title fights and battles between top contenders... Yeah I always hear my dad & uncles talk about the old days. Sanchez vs nelson, Gomez, Lopez Pryor vs Alexis The fabulous 4 so many great fights between them Watching Chavez come up & Tyson Benitez vs ray leanord. Thou I was to young to watch them I do own allot of old fights in both DVD & VHS. Even some old olivares, Carlos Ortiz, Ali & others. Oh I have some of cuevas, zarate, pintor & Whitaker fights too.

I was probably 2-4 years old. My first fight I saw was or a few I remember when I was like 6 are... Chavez vs camacho Tyson vs Douglas Gonzales vs carbajal In my teens Just about every Oscar big figh Motales vs Barrera Ward vs Gatti Hollyfield vs bowe trilogy Allot of terry Norris just a few top of my head. you would have LOVED to have been a fan in the 80's then...EVERY WEEKEND there were fights on free network TV...BIG fights with big names...world title fights and battles between top contenders...

I was probably 2-4 years old. My first fight I saw was or a few I remember when I was like 6 are... Chavez vs camacho Tyson vs Douglas Gonzales vs carbajal In my teens Just about every Oscar big figh Motales vs Barrera Ward vs Gatti Hollyfield vs bowe trilogy Allot of terry Norris just a few top of my head.

I watched HAGLER-LEONARD at the civic center on closed circuit and I remember an early SRL flury and the guy in front of me yelling at the screen, "Take that baldy!!!"

i was a twinkle in my fathers eye

It was a little too young for that time but boy I wish we had those times now. I am in envy of people who got to experience that great time in boxing in the 70's and 80's.

No because i was -10 to -5 years old.

Pogue, I remember Leonard-Hearns 1, I was walking around my neighborhood that night, wondering what was happening at that moment in Vegas... couldnt believe one of them was about to lose!!...and the day Holmes-Cooney fought I had a baseball game and I remember being in the outfield wishing the game would hurry up and get over so I could go home and get ready for the fight...MAGICAL DAYS... For the Holmes-Cooney fight, my parents did not want me to go because there were concerns about racial violence. If you recall, it was a nasty build-up and there wound up being some scuffles at the Forum. I had just turned 13 and my uncle told my parents he was taking me to a movie...then we went to watch the fight. I won a bunch of money betting on Holmes. Well, a "bunch" as far as a 13 year-old was concerned!

Pogue, I remember Leonard-Hearns 1, I was walking around my neighborhood that night, wondering what was happening at that moment in Vegas... couldnt believe one of them was about to lose!!...and the day Holmes-Cooney fought I had a baseball game and I remember being in the outfield wishing the game would hurry up and get over so I could go home and get ready for the fight...MAGICAL DAYS...

sadly i wasn't born then, i do remember tyson-holyfield night though

From 1980 to 1985...Leonard-Duran 1 and 2...Leonard-Hearns...Holmes-Cooney...Hearns-Hagler...plus the night in 1982 when Sugar Ray announced his retirement on network TV...plus Cosell on ABC Wide World of Sports interviewing fighters before the fight and after (he interviewed Cooney the morning after the Holmes fight out by the pool at Cesars Palace)...do u remember where u were the nights of those fights? Who did u want to win? Etc? Like they were yesterday. Leonard-Duran 1: Was at the fight at the "Big O". I was 11. Delighted Duran won. Leonard-Duran 2: At home in my bedroom listening to round by round reports on my radio. Heartbroken by "no mas". Leonard-Hearns:Closed Circuit at the old Montreal Forum. Pulling for Hearns Holmes-Cooney:Closed Circuit at the old Montreal Forum. Holmes was my favourite fighter and I felt Cooney was undeserving. Very tense racially. I think I was the only white Irish guy pulling for Holmes...LOL! Hearns-Hagler:Closed Circuit at the old Montreal Forum. Hagler all the way. The atmosphere was electric and the place exploded after the first round! 1980-1985 was a great time to be a boxing fan. Love your threads, Iceman!