What year did you start watching boxing?

[Sun_Tzu]

mid 60's...I remember watching Ali on Wide World of Sports and seeing Richard Steele upset by Johnny Featherman, who fractured a number of Steele's ribs in the process.

Who is your Avi?

[STREET CLEANER]

I got hooked with the Sugar Ray Leonard olympic run a d been a fan since. He had like a picture taped to his sock or something like that

[4truth]

Who is your Avi?

Nekole Kemelle, more of a photographer than model these days

[juggernaut666]

first boxer I recall was ali as he was an icon figure though to young to actually realize what boxing was.... Ali.

Probably...Sugar Ray vs Hagler fights.when I started taking notice...the FIRST real fight I took notice of that got me into it was Mike Tyson vs Tubbs and watching the Tokyo coverage .

[N/A]

Boxing Questionnaire:

What year did you become a boxing fan and start watching it (all the time?)

What was the first boxing match you remember watching?

Started watching in 1988 when I was five years old. Watched the Tyson-Spinks replay on HBO with my family and watched boxing religiously for over a decade, before starting to work in combat sports as a teenager. I don't really consider myself a boxing fan anymore as it's been a job for so long that I rarely watch for pleasure, but I do have fond memories of the heavyweight division from the late 80s through the late 90s and every once in a while I'll bust out my old VHS tapes of the big heavyweight title fights from that era.

[R-C]

1995 oscar vs ruelas I was 9

[buddyr]

Did a book report on Muhammad Ali in the 3rd grade (1980s) and fell in love with boxing (but I also loved all combat like wrestling and kickboxing). Didn't get into following who the modern fighters were until around 08'.
When we had all those stars in the 90's and early 00's I didn't give a ***, I was still more interested in old tape of 70's and 80's greats.

ME TOO!!! 3rd grade report on Muhammad Ali and I was addicted. My dad and mom had always watched it because ACC basketball was the standard in my household as a child(early 80s) so I discovered Ali, who I had saw on VHS WM that my aunt rented for me and then i started reading on him. This was around the time Hagler fought Hearns. That spot for ppv was on tv every other commercial break. Then I started watching fights that would come on NBC during the weekends. They would show thorwback fights and I'd be seeing them for the first time excited like was living in the 50s and 60s. I'm a student of the game. I knew who Leonard was and the Tyson explosion happened I was right there for it. I still remember that episode of Webster on a friday night in which Webster was trying to get Tyson to sign a glove that he spilled juice on.

[ELPacman]

2003, Pac-Barrera 1 my first official entry into the sport. I think I was 14. My father would watch boxing religiously and I may of caught some of the huge PPV fights like Tyson-Lewis and I remember Trinidad-Hopkins, but I never was into it yet.

Watching Pac at that time who HBO referred to as a huge underdog and seeing the amount of action produced got me hooked. I always loved a good underdog story, who doesn't? From there on I followed Pac's career hardcore while branching off learning about every other fighter in every division as each year passed. I just got hooked on the sport itself. I even went to a boxing gym to learn and that was awesome.

Yeah, it's a sport that once your in, it is like an addiction, but it's also hard to feed that addiction at times because of all the politics. I guess that's what makes boxing so unique.

P.S, my join date, 2004 April. This was like a month before Pac fought Marquez and I think I joined because I got caught up in all the hype leading into that fight and wanted to talk more about it elsewhere than a pro-dominate Pac site such as Pacland, rofl.

[Mask]

Not sure the year but I became a boxing fan after watching the first season of the contender. Crazy but a reality show was my way in.

[N/A]

2003, Panchito Bojado put me on

this guy wins the thread. 100%