In what year did you start following Boxing?

[Bierstadt]

Started or got really into it?

I watched boxing growing up and always liked it for example I can remember the day my bro told me Tyson got beat but to me you can't really follow the sport until you get a bit older.

Arturo Gatti-Angel Manfready and Ike Ibaebuchi-Tua were the fights that made me really get into the sport hardcore. which was mid to late 90's

That's the one thing I vividly recall as well. It was in the afternoon in Armenia, and Mike was fighting in the US that evening. I was hitting the heavy bag in the gym (I can just hear the sound of crackling old wood planks under my feet) when a bunch of the guys around the gym started running around and announcing that Lennox Lewis had just knocked out Tyson! I dropped my hands and was in disbelief. We weren't allowed to miss training and there was no television in the gym, only the trainer had a small one in his office for which the antenna wasn't working, but everyone ran home to get to a TV.


God I love this sport.

[TintaBoricua]

I started watching boxing in late 2006...

[Hobo]

First fight i remember was Ray Mancini on regular tv. I remember boxing on abc,cbs and nbc every saturday or sunday, Those were days.

[gopi11]

That's the one thing I vividly recall as well. It was in the afternoon in Armenia, and Mike was fighting in the US that evening. I was hitting the heavy bag in the gym (I can just hear the sound of crackling old wood planks under my feet) when a bunch of the guys around the gym started running around and announcing that Lennox Lewis had just knocked out Tyson! I dropped my hands and was in disbelief. We weren't allowed to miss training and there was no television in the gym, only the trainer had a small one in his office for which the antenna wasn't working, but everyone ran home to get to a TV.


God I love this sport.

Lewis was at least a 2 to 1 favorite. At some books, it was even bigger and it wasn't a shocker by any means. You were probably thinking of the Buster Douglas fight...

[BostonGuy]

I'd say I've watched boxing on and off probably beginning late 80's early 90's. In recent years I've watched and followed the sport much more closely; the internet has enabled me to do so..

[RL_GMA]

First fight I saw in its entirety was Leonard vs Hagler 1987 Live.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

Late 70's when I was really young. 80's was my time when I really got into boxing and started boxing myself in about 85' and stopped at about 90' when I got into trouble.

[TOBYLEE1]

Boxing was always ever present in the house but even though I had seen alot of fights I really became a hardcore fan in the mid 80's. Hearns, Hagler, Leonard, Duran, Pryor...etc. It was also on free tv and about the only thing you had to follow the sports where a few black and white magazines with alot of outdated info.

I got so many posters from magazines cause it was the only thing in color at the time. Thank God for the internet

[EdWins]

Growing up in a Mexican family means your bound to become a boxing fan

but actually I didn't really watch boxing frequently until around 2005. I have flashbacks all the time though of my family going nuts every time Cesar Chavez had a fight. I remember going to a Mexican pub/restaurant with them when I was like 6 or 7 maybe 8? when Chavez and De la Hoya fought and everyone in there was getting crazy yelling n ****... good times!

[KESSLER]

I've always watched boxing with my dad, since I was very little, but I started religiously following the sport of boxing when I was like 14.