In elementary school Donnie Lalondes half brother was putting up posters for his fight against Sugar Ray Leonard. I took the poster home and asked my dad if it was anything. He assured me it was. I knew/saw/read big boxing matches before that. But this was the first time being this close to something.
me getting my azz whopped up oh. and my dad sad.. ashamed..
then.. i grew big,, and he said.. mijo... you are a man...
winning. losing..it does not matter.. fight.
Audrey Harrison when him sprott and Skelton and Danny Williams were the best British had to offer. But I was a like Tyson fan from about 6/7 years old and compiled a little file with things I printed off at the internet shop about him and his stats and his workouts and watched his documentaries and interviews. That and Prince naseems license to thrill vhs are my first boxing memories. I'm going but you guys saying Khan make me feel older
I remember not the actual fight but the family gathering for Chavez - Taylor I, that fight made him a superstar, everybody was talking about Chavez in Sinaloa after that....
Actual fight I remember Chávez vs Camacho. I was probably around 10 years old and I didn’t understand why Camacho ran so much. Boxing fights in Mexico are not like the American way, and I would say that in the whole world just in America judges give so much credit at running and holding. No point deductions, nothing
Probably not my first but I remember watching heavily favored Richard Steele lose to an acquaintance of my dad, some journeyman named Johnny Featherman.
One of the Michael Sprott V Matt Skelton fights i have no idea which one because it was on in the background while we were drinking. was early teens, that was the first 'live' fight i think, i had already seen some Ali fights before.