how did you begin???

[Run]

Tapia v.s. Romero.

And I liked Johnny Tapia immediately but I wasn't familiar with boxing at all at the time. I think I was 15 years old or whatnot.

Anyways I'll remember that fight forever and Johnny doing backflips afterwards.

Greatest fighter of all time under 130 pounds, and he's the reason why I started watching boxing to begin with.

I knew it was a big fight however, at the time Romero was on the verge of being considered one of the top fighters in boxing if my memory serves me correct.



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[Chups]

Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard.

[Gareth Ivanovic]

My dad has always liked boxing and I remember him watching fights and also having a subscription to Ring Magazine. I used to read those when I was young and just got caught up in it. The first fighters I remember watching was Hagler, SRL, and of course Tyson. I remember going to my uncles house to watch the PPV's when Tyson fought.

[shawn_]

When I was little my parents would never let me watch boxing so as soon as I got my own TV I started watching it all the time.

Then one day I decided to go down to my local boxing gym and I havnt missed a day since.

[Konstantin]

My dad watched boxing but I dont think I realized it until I was around 12 years old. The first fight that I ever saw was Prince vs god knows who... Well the show he made and then knocking the guy out was awesome in my opinion so since then Ive been a fan...

[-Antonio-]

Well my family always followed Trinidad, but that was more of us backing Puerto Rico's hero than being actual boxing fans, although my dad was a casual fan. I watched the big fights as a kid, like Holyfield/Tyson and so on. I also watched a fight on Classic every now and then. Then as I started getting older, I would start catching fights on HBO, such as Vargas/DLH and Rahman/Lewis, and I became a casual fan.

Then I watched the Jirov/Toney fight and it changed everything. I'll never forget rooting for Toney because he was the underdog, and going crazy when he knocked Jirov down in the 12th round. That and the Legendary Nights shows really turned me into a big fan of boxing.

[Left2body]

no other sport uses every muscle in your body... or mabye thats just born fighters..not all fighter no what there doing

Have you ever seen college swim meets? Freestyle and butterfuly are all great examples of power, speed, flexibility, technique, endurance. You have to use all parts of your body for that as well.

There are also decathletes (sp) penthaletes. I totally agree that boxers are superb atheltes but todays atheletes are too taylored to call one a clear cut best.

[PunchDrunk]

When I was 7 years old, African boxer Ayub Kalule beat Masashi Kudo for the WBA light middleweight title. Kalule was promoted by Danish manager/promoter Mogens Palle (yeah, Kessler's guy), and at that time it was like Kalule was Danish himself. It was the first fight I remember seeing, but I was hooked on boxing. I started at a local club when I was 13. It was quite a good club, having both European jr. welterweight champion Søren Søndergaard, and European champion and IBF world title challenger Gert Bo Jacobsen (he lost to Greg Haugen) come out of there within a few years of each other. Quite impressive for a small club in a town with population of 3.000.

[Liaison]

Watched Malinga/Rocchigiani from 89 with my dad, it grew from there. Twas the Holyfield/Douglas fight that made me a fully pledged fight fan though.

[guzi815]

Hector "Macho" Camacho brought a flair to the ring that many after him tried to imitate....Prince Naseem Hamed, Floyd Mayweather, Sharma Mitchell, Tito Trinidad, Julio Cesar Chavez, just to name a few. Mohamed Ali was flambouyant and charasmatic with his infamous rhymes and ring anctics, tormenting, and loud mouthing his opponents. Hector Camacho brought style with dressing up as a gladiator, a tiger, a futuristic warrior, somekind of wacky outfit. Many followed suit with ridding of the traditional, long boxing robe, for a more shorter, modified version.

I got into boxing cause of Howard Cossell was the commentator! lol! the way he used to say "Mo-hamed A-li"