In what year did you start following Boxing?

[-TRGB-]

When I was a little kid, 1990, Eubank-Benn I.

[llamas1]

1979, Saw Sugar Ray Leonard be Wilfred Benitez for the WBC title... Been a fan ever since..... I was 13 years old...

[chav]

in the mid to late 1980's my dad got me watching Mike Tyson with him, that was my intro to boxing. Mike Tyson made me an instant fan...probably why i can't bad mouth Mike or his career

I dont watch that MMA / UFC crap, i can't stand it and my son isnt watching it either...he is being brought into the sport during the time frame of Manny Pac...another great explosive entertaining fighter, a Mini-Mike lol

[CubanGuyNYC]

I've been a boxing fan since the early seventies. I remember going to a small pro show with my dad, some uncles and cousins at the "Audubon Ballroom" in upper Manhattan (where Malcolm X was assassinated). I don't remember much about that night, except the fact that everything seemed so different "live". It was both good and bad.

At the time, Ali and Frazier were the big names. I remember seeing "Smokin'" Joe on "Wonderama," and thinking I'd learned something special when Frazier showed how to hold your hands up in a fight. Many of Ali's bouts were shown on ABC's "Wide World of Sports" in those days, either "live" or as a re-broadcast. Back then, the bigger fights were shown in theaters, in "closed-circuit" shows.

The 1976 Olympics was huge for me. I never really knew that Cubans were known for boxing before then. The great Teofilo Stevenson was putting men to sleep. The Cubans did extremely well, only losing to the very best Olympic squad the US has ever assembled: Leonard, the Spinks brothers and Howard Davis. I remember being torn between rooting for the Americans and the Cubans. I was won over by the dazzling "Sugar" Ray, even as he won a fierce, gold medal battle with his Cuban opponent.

After that came the unforgettable match-ups between Duran, Hagler, Hearns and, of course, Leonard. There were the televised bouts from Mexico, where everyone seemed to look like a smaller version of Pipino Cuevas. Somewhere in there, my heart was broken a couple of times by the Aaron Pryor victories over one of my all-time favorites, Alexis Arguello. What a time for boxing....

The Tyson era was a blur for me. The only "Iron" Mike fight I remember like it was yesterday was the thunderbolt of Douglas-Tyson. I'll always remember where I was when that one went down. I would say that my zest for boxing, while still present, took a backseat to other interests and responsibilities during that time. Holyfield, Bowe, Lewis, Jones, Jr., Mayweather, Jr., Pacquiao, De La Hoya, Trinidad, all these guys naturally came into my radar. But watching journeymen on FNF, for instance, only happened occasionally.

Fast forward to today...my attention has been re-captured by the return of Cubans to professional boxing. Thankfully, it's also rekindled my general interest in the sport, even to the point of posting remarks on the Internet. I look forward to the continued pleasure the "Sweet Science" brings to my leisure time...and to witnessing the birth of some future legends.

[-TRGB-]

I dont watch that MMA / UFC crap, i can't stand it and my son isnt watching it either...

You're a good man. A good man.

[featherFist]

In the Oscar days but, more so 2008. I still have a long way to go though. My first favorite sport is Basketball (PROs and College) next is Boxing. .... used to be wrestling then I found out that its like Hollywood. I said **** 'ya, I'm out!

Yeah, that's my chime in.

[SirTomJones]

Calzaghe - Eubank was huge here.

That is when I got into it big.

[number1983]

on and off since early 2000's with the heavyweight's but seriously since 2007 with Floyd Mayweather Jr vs Ricky Hatton, that got me hooked to boxing

[Seleção No. 13]

I watched a few boxing matches with my dad when I was young. The first one I really sat down and watched with him was Tyson-Holyfield. It wasn't until the day after that I realized he bit his ear.

Got really into the sport early/mid 00's.

[| THE KING |]

Interesting reading some of you old-timers in here.. Good stuff. Watched some of Tysons fights when I was younger.. just waiting for another short KO.. Then saw fighters like Morales..Roy Jones.. Pacquiao.. Mayweather.. Hatton.. ODLH.. Cotto.. Margarito.. (to the current young crop of fighters) all different types of fighters that bring it and started paying more attention.