What fight made you a Hardcore Boxing Fan ?

My father and uncle were fans. Took me to cards when I was knee high to a grass hopper, watched it when it was on TV. Really couldn't pinpoint a singular fight, but if I had to take a guess it would be this one that I can remember from childhood. http://dmboxing.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Hagler-2.jpg

I rember i had people over and i had the khan and garica fight everybody was stay wow that guys fast and whipping then that left hook came and had everyone speechless great fight

Benn Eubank 1 and watching Naz fight on ITV Sport on a Saturday night. The only fighter who's career I watched as it happened on live TV fight after fight.

When I was a little kid, about 30 years ago, my father brought home a Ring magazine, I stole it and loved it. He got me a subscription not too long after and I've been hooked ever since. The only magazines i stole from my father weren't boxing related....:D

was a casual fan before. i love heavyweight fights but gatti-ward 1 made me a huge boxing fan. absolutely hooked me into boxing. i started searching for boxing sites after that

Always a casual fan due to bare knuckle fighters in my family. Bare knuckle didn't interest me as I liked my face, but I boxed as an amateur for a few years and trained with Dave Earl (who's father was Henry Coopers sparring partner). I grew up watching televised boxing (including older fights) but Tyson v Berbick made me a hardcore fan. :boxing::boxing::boxing:

The first fight I went to a relatives house to watch was Chavez /Camacho as a kid. Then we would go see every Chavez fight with them. Then, they stopped inviting us lol, idk what happened, so boxing fell off the radar for me. Then as I grew up and could afford getting satellite TV for the whole house, one night I saw HBO was showing a boxing match. I had heard the name of the fighters before but no idea who they were really. I was wowed by that fight, those fighters were Erik Morales and Marco Antonio Barrera, the first fight. I've been hooked hardcore ever since.

Grew up watching boxing with my dad, and when Tyson vs. Holmes went down in 1988, it changed my life forever. At this point, I'll watch any fight out there because every fight offers something different.

Mike Tyson's punch out

When I was a little kid, about 30 years ago, my father brought home a Ring magazine, I stole it and loved it. He got me a subscription not too long after and I've been hooked ever since.

I was always a boxing fan, but more casual. Hoya vs Chavez changed that. When Oscar traded shots with Chavez, and Chavez refused to come back out, people didnt know what to do. Chavez tried to act tough at the end of the rnd but once you saw his eyes when he sat down, you knew he was done. Oscar took his heart. https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=Z2SrQINUlyw I don't think the younger fans realize how awesome Oscar was, you knew this guy was a super star as soon as you saw him fight.

Hopkins-Trinidad for me, that's when I understood there was a science to this. I was a casual before that and would only watch Oscar and Trinidad, I was a big fan of Oscar at the time but he never made me a hardcore fan. Right now, I don't even enjoy Oscar's fights anymore and I don't know why :lol1:

I'm still young (23 years old) and I've watched boxing my whole life. But the fight that made me a huge super fan of the sport was Oscar vs Floyd. I'd seen hundreds of fights prior, but damn... that whole event just captivated everything I love about boxing: Great build-up, great live crowd, and good boxing.

hamed/barrera i think

My family friends would watch it and I'd go. I think at the time I didn't care too much for it but when 50 Cent rapped Floyd out to the ring against DLH (first PPV fight I saw), I got hooked LOL. I was into WWE as a kid and the theatrics of that fight reminded me of WWE.

I got in fights in grade school so whenever any boxing, kickboxing, MMA was on I would watch it. I went to cage fights back when they were actually called that. But I think Vitali-Lewis was the night I fell in love with boxing and started paying more attention to it than the others.