first live boxing event you attended?

[SlickRikki]

My First fight to see live,was in 08 Jones vs Trinidad.

[Guest]

The first fight I attended was David Tua-Ed Guttierez, a FNF in NYC a few years back. I was writing for a lesser site and when I didn't get credentials for the show I knew it was time to make a change. Luckily a friend of mine had tickets. That was the night Jonathon Banks KO'ed Castillo.

The first HBO show I went to was Malignaggi-Edner Cherry. I've actually never been to a world title fight.

I know this makes me a legend, but I saw Eddie Guttierez's first pro fight.

[Left2body]

I can't remember specifically which was the first I saw. I know it was something local since there are a lot of small shows in NYC. But sadly I have not gone to as many since I got new GF. She's doesn't really like boxing and thinks its brutal. . One of the only bad things about her.

One of the best fights I saw was paid for by my uncle when we took a trip down to Florida to visit family. He planned it out and timed it so that we saw RJJ vs Lucas but the best fight was by far Kevin Kelley vs Gainer.

[chibomber]

cotto vs margo

[heat27]

Cotto-Jennings

[Hitman932]

Hatton-Maliggnaggi is my only world title fight.

SAw Tua and Rahman in Mt. Pleasant

Saw Johnathon Banks several times in Detroit, saw him and Andy Lee in Canton as well.

Saw Thomas Hearns farewell fight against Shannon Landberg at the Palace.

[Dapperdon70]

de la hoya vs sugar shane 1

I was at that fight too(SSM -De La Hoya I). My buddy won two tickets with $900.00 face value from a call in contest on Telemundo, which is a spanish TV station in LA. By buddy called me to get the answer to the boxing trivia question over the phone, and he won. So he took me.
My first live event was De La Hoya's pro debut at the Forum in LA against one Lamar Williams. KO 1.

[Libido Sanchez]

I know you're asking for big fights, but my first boxing match I saw in person was when I was like 10-years-old back in the early '80s (damn, I'm showing my age). My uncle took me to a local card in Mexico while we were visiting. Have no idea who fought that night, but I'm sure it wasn't anybody famous. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I remember the whole thing being like a scene out of "Raging Bull" (only in color and in Spanish). I even want to say it was smokey inside.

My first "real" fight that I attended was DLH vs. Wilfredo Rivera in Atlantic City (1997). A friend of mine had press credentials and she took me as her +1. (I still got my credentials from that event... the fight was called "Title Wave"... ha ha, kind of weak.) Was able to attend the press conference and could have even asked a question, but thankfully, I kept my casual fan mouth shut. I remember DLH showing off, standing up between rounds.

[-Mustang-]

I live near Washington D.C. so my very first fight was Jimmy Lange vs Gabriel Rodriguez and we sat with the ring card girls b/c we knew one of them!! but my first major title fight was the Cotto vs Gomez & Margarito vs Cintron fight and they were both one helluva experience

[-MAKAVELLI-]

Double Trouble
Staples Center
Los Angeles, CA

Pacquiao vs Velasquez
Morales vs Raheem

hahaha loui...i went to that one too




my 1st event had to have been back in the early 90s....my pops used to take me to the Forum (it was the Fabulous Forum back then) and it was a card that had Barrera on it...ive seen him fight there at least 3 times and i've seen Marquez fight there twice