Experiences you've had attending a fight...

**TintaBoricua** · 07-13-2008, 08:19 PM

For such an active board...I was really looking forward to hearing some stories.

**Scott9945** · 07-13-2008, 08:24 PM

Originally posted by ThePen2

Okay, I saw an ad in the newspaper about a fight event and was thinking of going. It's nothing ground-breaking, but since the price isn't high, the location is close and since it's soon, I was thinking of going. I've never attended a fight event, and was wondering, by any chance, what were your first (or particularly memorable) experiences going to a boxing event?

Seeing boxing personalities up close that you've only seen on TV is usually fun. Watching them interact with each other is sometimes intersting too. Of course it depends on where you'll be seeing this fight. If it's just a clubfight in the middle of nowhere, nobody important will be there. But there is always a certain buzz about seeing professional boxing livem especially if you haven't before.

**neils7147933** · 07-13-2008, 08:26 PM

Nothing matches the feeling of going to live event, especially if the main event is world-class. Get your tickets, and pay whatever it requires to sit as close as your budget allows.

**DanielTurcotte3** · 07-13-2008, 08:27 PM

First name Emanuel last name Augustus....an experience all in it's own....The most entertaining fighter to EVER step foot in the ring........

Fun isn't merely enough when you watch this guy live....Jus make sure you catch him when he really wants too fight........

**!! AI-Holmes!!** · 07-13-2008, 08:28 PM

It's just a different atmosphere attending a live event, the matches, the crowd, ring card girls, beer. Just go and have some fun..

**guzi815** · 07-13-2008, 08:33 PM

I saw Miguel Cotto twice (2005, and 2007 against Mosely) and Tito Trinidad at Madison Square Garden. Had me some $200 tixs, and you are about 50 meters from all the action. When ever Trinidad came to the Garden, you couldn't find an empty seat!! Cotto's fight with Mosley, it was sold out, they had to open the rafters where all the NY Knicks and NY Ranger's retired Jerseys are hanging!! You gotta get your beer, that cost $8 a cup, way before the main event....that line is looooooooong!!

**HappyBoxingFan** · 07-13-2008, 08:37 PM

Originally posted by ThePen2

Okay, I saw an ad in the newspaper about a fight event and was thinking of going. It's nothing ground-breaking, but since the price isn't high, the location is close and since it's soon, I was thinking of going. I've never attended a fight event, and was wondering, by any chance, what were your first (or particularly memorable) experiences going to a boxing event?

I met Sugar at a bar at the the MGM for Pavlik/Talor II... he is just an awesome dude... absolutely no celebrity complex with him

**Mr. Ryan** · 07-13-2008, 08:52 PM

Originally posted by Scott9945

Seeing boxing personalities up close that you've only seen on TV is usually fun. Watching them interact with each other is sometimes intersting too. Of course it depends on where you'll be seeing this fight. If it's just a clubfight in the middle of nowhere, nobody important will be there. But there is always a certain buzz about seeing professional boxing livem especially if you haven't before.

What I like about smaller fights is that the atmosphere is so much more relaxed and informal, so the celebrities that do attend have time to stay and interact long enough to get a vibe for whatever their next fight is. I can usually get a good vibe for who will win from talking to them.

At Shaun George-Thomas Reid in Newark, NJ, I got the closest to a bleacher fight during one of the preliminary fights. I was sitting down in my seat when an avalanche of fighting starting coming my way. I slid over my table to the other side of the ring and watched everything from a safe, but I can still say I was there distance.

Meeting Harold Lederman at David Tua-Ed Guttierez in the Manhattan Center was the most personally enjoyable celebrity meeting. He's so outgoing and personable and loves talking to the fans. He was my first interview, it was a good one.

And this pic, this was cool. Kassim Ouma's son flipping me the bird.

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**We want Floyd** · 07-13-2008, 08:53 PM

Going to a live, world-class boxing event is the best show on earth. Outside of swimming w/ naked women around you. Anyway, I've been fortunate enough to go to three major boxing events. The first time was against Tua vs Ibeabuchi, the next one was Hamed vs Barrera and the last one was PAC vs Morales II.

All were great, because the unexpected happened in all three bouts... Ibeabuchi pulled the upset, Barrera pulled the upset, and Morales was ktfo for the first time in his career.

The craziest crowd would have to be the Barrera - Hamed fight, the crazy Brits and the classless Mexicans were all over it. I thought a riot was gonna f**kin' break out. The Pac - Morales fight was great, 'cause I was sitting next to a bunch of f**kin' Mexicans, they were talkin' all kinds of **** before the main event started. During the fight, I was the only standing up talkin' ****, while the rest of the row was dead silent, and I also kept lookin' back at them everytime Morales got clocked by one of PAC's one-dimensional combinations(lmao)

I'm not a racist, but from my personal experience, the Mexic*ns that show up at these events have really no class. I mean, if I were Mexican, i'd be embarrassed that those individuals represent in that manner. I've also been to club fights in my area, whether i'd be MMA or boxing shows. Again, it's the Mexicans that take their low-life culture to a level lower than Vern Troyer! Everybody else in the venue are enjoyng the fights, but the Mexicans, they simply have no freakin' manners, it's as if it's their first time in a candy store. Or they act like they just got out of jail and they're getting p*ssy again for the first time in a long time

Experiences you've had attending a fight...