What made you fall in love with boxing?

[MEXICAN STYLE]

To me, it was watching those Mike Tyson highlights as a kid. The guy was just too ferocious and powerful in knocking out grown men. He was the greatest show on earth. And I would mimic his style.

I remember hearing about him biting someone's ear off and I thought it must have been a lie. Not the invincible Iron Mike Tyson - the greatest show on earth. Then he got knocked out by Lennox Lewis.

However, as I grew older and started boxing and understanding the sport - it dawned on me that the invincible Mike Tyson just looked great against cream puffs and he was not as great as advertised. Regardless, he'll always be my favourite boxer of all time because he made me fall in love with the sport.

The Mexican pride TBH

[Ganondorf]

I watched Tyson vs Douglas with my Dad 30 years ago and have been hooked ever since.

[jmrf4435]

I'm not that old so the super 6 series was amazing

[Spray_resistant]

Oh you know, the way I get a text from boxing in the morning, the way boxing has dinner on the table for me, all of the fun times out with boxing, and how boxing sucks my cawk every night.

[bngsdad]

Balboa vs Creed II


Missed the first... I was too young

[Articulateboxin]

That body size and physique can be overcome with skill and will. I really fell in love with boxing when I caught the end of an undercard for Mayweather vs Hatton, there was this indomitable looking dude fighting and had just won a lob sided decision. He looked absolutely shredded, I couldn't imagine how anybody could beat that. I youtubed the dude and saw he had 1 loss and this then led me to some skinny looking dude called Joe Calzaghe. I'd heard of this guy from the radio but for some reason never followed him. At the time I was just a very casual fan, only dipping into the mega fights. (being raised on bruno, tyson, holyfield, lewis, hamed etc). Of course the guy in question was Jeff Lacey but that fight perfectly encapsulates everything that boxing is for me. An underdog, winning every second of every round and flipping the script entirely.

When I watched the fight, I was absolutely transfixed. I couldn't believe this lanky looking guy was putting such a 1 sided beating on this superhero looking dude. From there, I researched all of Calzaghe's fights, then all of Mayweather's (after his beat down of Hatton) and so started my love of the sport. Been reading about it every day since and watching it almost every weekend.

[GrandpaBernard]

Mike Tyson & Floyd

[Damn Wicked]

Ali vs Frazier

[The plunger man]

LMAO.

Spinks, Holmes, Berbick, Biggs, Ruddock, and even Frank Bruno weren't cream puffs.

He just made them look that way.

As I've showed you before.

He practically beat the entire top Ring 10 of the year he became champ.

Now compare that to your man crush AJ

spinks was a light heavyweight , Holmes was 44 , Berbick never had a win against a prime top 10 heavyweight , Briggs was soundly beaten by Lennox Lewis and easier and went life and death with ruddock who again was destroyed by Lewis when facing him.
I like Tyson as a fighter and character but his record when broken down is very weak except for the age he did it.
Tyson lost to every prime P4P heavyweight he went up against that’s the facts

[The plunger man]

September 16th 1981 changed my life.