Who was your first favorite fighter?

[Scott9945]

Scott, did you ever see Danny "Little red" Lopez live in LA during in his prime?

Here is a great fight that I saw him in. Just as exciting as I remembered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvKJkeCcZQg

[joseph5620]

Here is a great fight that I saw him in. Just as exciting as I remembered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvKJkeCcZQg

Thanks for posting that Scott. How does a fighter that small hit that hard lol? Wow. And Lopez didn't seem to mind taking punches in order to land his bombs. If I didn't know who he was I would have thought the other fighter had the upper hand. But one punch turned the whole fight around.

[Shabba Rank$]

Well the first fight I EVER watched was the Lewis-Tyson fight on black box.



And when Lennox knocked out Mike, I was hooked on boxing and became a fan of Lennox ever since.

Lennox was the reason why I won fights in Middle school.

[Holtol]

Mike Tyson was the first boxer that really impressed me.

[blaze778]

Hagler...........

[The_Demon]

Prince Naseem Hamed

[T.McGrady]

Roy Jones Jr

[Panzer]

Sven Ottke and Dariusz Michaelzewski .......true story

[Barn]

Now Marv if I remember correctly, you were pretty critical of Ali when I first jumped onto this forum, not to say you were a hater and you've mellowed out on him since. Is it one of those love-hate things? I had that with Jones, Hopkins, Tyson and Lewis.

When I first found boxing. Ali and Tyson were the only two I knew. I absolutely loved Ali and me wanting to find out about him is pretty much what got me into the History side of things. I then noticed "Thrilla in Manilla" was on T.V and I watched it.

I realised Ali was not such a great person and it was one of those instances when... I don't know how to describe it but, you sort of felt let down. I hated the way he treated Joe Frazier and at first I made many an excuse for him but, then I just came to the realization that he could no longer be my favourite fighter.

I was never a hater but, I get this dislike about him because, of the fact he once was my favourite fighter and he as a person was not what the hype made him out to be.

I still have a great respect for his abilities and don't let it cloud my judgement having him swapping from 1-2 on a HW list and 7-10 on a P4P list. Yet I admit I'm somwhat biased when it comes to his personal attributes.

He was my first favourite fighter and these days it's the man who he treated horribly.
Joe Frazier.

[GJC]

Joe Baksi, I await the rush of votes for Joe