What year did you start watching boxing?

Leonard and Hagler was the first fight I saw

Don't get mad because the first fight you "listened to" was Joe Luis-Max Schmeling. Uh, I'd be incredibly grateful if that was the first fight I witnessed. I'm just saying, 2009 is when you first started watching, that's crazy. Good stuff.

Mid seventies, first fight was probably an Ali fight or a Foreman fight. My grandpa loved boxing and that's how I got in to it. He thought Ali was the best fighter he had ever seen. I remember telling him I thought he lost a fight we watched, he didn't take it well. I was 5-6 probably. Guy above was arguing with his granddad about an Ali fight that they just finished watching...LIVE. He wins.

around 1989 I think

Since diapers I was hooked. My Dad was a hardcore fan with subscriptions to RING and KO magazine. I grew up watching it and liked it from day 1 as long as I can remember. While other kids looked forward to Saturday morning cartoons I was looking forward to the nights fights. I got a pass to stay up until the events were over too. Watching prime Roy and Floyd live was something else. Same. It must have been Christmas of 1965 where one of my first conscious thoughts was sitting on my dad's lap at some sort of thing in a gym with men wearing white clothes, throwing one another around. I was a really big George Foreman fan from when he was in the Olympics at 3 years old in 1968. Ahh! I still can't believe that Ali beat him! Foreman was supposed to knock him out!!! LOL! I love all combat sports and all sports in general, but boxing has always been number one for me. :)

Pacquiao vs Marquez - 2004 first fight

Back in the year 1989 at a bar with my pops in the Philippines (was 5 at the time) watching Roberto Duran kick it off with Iran Barkley while snacking on some delicious dog meat.

2003, Panchito Bojado put me on this guy wins the thread. 100%

Not sure the year but I became a boxing fan after watching the first season of the contender. Crazy but a reality show was my way in.

2003, Pac-Barrera 1 my first official entry into the sport. I think I was 14. My father would watch boxing religiously and I may of caught some of the huge PPV fights like Tyson-Lewis and I remember Trinidad-Hopkins, but I never was into it yet. Watching Pac at that time who HBO referred to as a huge underdog and seeing the amount of action produced got me hooked. I always loved a good underdog story, who doesn't? From there on I followed Pac's career hardcore while branching off learning about every other fighter in every division as each year passed. I just got hooked on the sport itself. I even went to a boxing gym to learn and that was awesome. Yeah, it's a sport that once your in, it is like an addiction, but it's also hard to feed that addiction at times because of all the politics. I guess that's what makes boxing so unique. P.S, my join date, 2004 April. This was like a month before Pac fought Marquez and I think I joined because I got caught up in all the hype leading into that fight and wanted to talk more about it elsewhere than a pro-dominate Pac site such as Pacland, rofl.

Did a book report on Muhammad Ali in the 3rd grade (1980s) and fell in love with boxing (but I also loved all combat like wrestling and kickboxing). Didn't get into following who the modern fighters were until around 08'. When we had all those stars in the 90's and early 00's I didn't give a fuk, I was still more interested in old tape of 70's and 80's greats. ME TOO!!! 3rd grade report on Muhammad Ali and I was addicted. My dad and mom had always watched it because ACC basketball was the standard in my household as a child(early 80s) so I discovered Ali, who I had saw on VHS WM that my aunt rented for me and then i started reading on him. This was around the time Hagler fought Hearns. That spot for ppv was on tv every other commercial break. Then I started watching fights that would come on NBC during the weekends. They would show thorwback fights and I'd be seeing them for the first time excited like was living in the 50s and 60s. I'm a student of the game. I knew who Leonard was and the Tyson explosion happened I was right there for it. I still remember that episode of Webster on a friday night in which Webster was trying to get Tyson to sign a glove that he spilled juice on.

1995 oscar vs ruelas I was 9

Boxing Questionnaire: What year did you become a boxing fan and start watching it (all the time?) What was the first boxing match you remember watching? Started watching in 1988 when I was five years old. Watched the Tyson-Spinks replay on HBO with my family and watched boxing religiously for over a decade, before starting to work in combat sports as a teenager. I don't really consider myself a boxing fan anymore as it's been a job for so long that I rarely watch for pleasure, but I do have fond memories of the heavyweight division from the late 80s through the late 90s and every once in a while I'll bust out my old VHS tapes of the big heavyweight title fights from that era.

Who is your Avi? Nekole Kemelle, more of a photographer than model these days

I got hooked with the Sugar Ray Leonard olympic run a d been a fan since. He had like a picture taped to his sock or something like that

mid 60's...I remember watching Ali on Wide World of Sports and seeing Richard Steele upset by Johnny Featherman, who fractured a number of Steele's ribs in the process. Who is your Avi?

2000 - David Tua v Lennox Lewis

First fighter I ever heard about was Pacquiao-ODLH. In Vegas for that one as a young pre-teen playing a pop warner game First actual fights I streamed? Floyd-Canelo, Pacquiao-Marquez 4, Bradley-Márquez First fight I ever watched? Bute🇷🇴-Pascal Been hooked since that one basically.

I can't really say. I started watching with my dad in the mid 90's. So like 1995,1996:beerchug:

1986. Saturday cartoons on London Weekend Television replaced with Witherspoon Vs Bruno from Wembley. Being 6 years old I was sure that the real-life He Man would beat the tubby guy who looked like he'd hardly trained. Wrong! I can still see Witherspoon's 11th round "can opener"; right hand around the guard and down goes Bruno. The nation mourned; my thoughts were he must be useless to lose to someone who didn't even train!