What made you fall in love with boxing?

[BoomBapTrap]

Man first 2 fights I remember seeing was JCC vs. De La Hoya and Tyson vs Holyfield.

But the fight that made me fall in love with boxing was ODLH vs Vargas. I was like 13-14 at the time, and I remember I bet this hot popular Mexican girl at school that if De La Hoya won, she had to go out with me. I think she said if Vargas won that I had to come to school with no underwear.

Well ODLH won, and I ended up smashing her that year...which was the start of me smashing whole bunch of other chicks that year.
I’m still friends with her till this day, and that was like 17-18 yrs. ago.

[dibzvincent143]

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.

I’m from the philippines. So it’s very very easy to fall in love with boxing given pacman is here.

I was like 9 or 10 back then. Started boxingscene though when i was 15. I was already here before that but never felt the need to make an account, i was just reading articles and debates.

I even started a blog about boxing when i was young, and there were a few readers, my friends mostly, told me they were nice. Dunno why i stopped though.

Fell in love with a wimmin maybe, got laid and realize i ain’t got time for blogs.

[Tails]

My older brothers boxed at the gym just three blocks from our elementary. So when I got around 8 I started going as well to help keep me out of trouble.

By that time my brothers were already boxing/fighting the other kids in the neighborhood both in the gym and in the neighbor bayou and had their reputation. So it kind of was a given that I would fall in line with that lifestyle as well, of course all kept in the gym for the most part when it came to me. I was far more level headed than my brothers.

Plus my great grandpa, grandpa and my uncles where always known for getting into scuffles and throwing hands so it was pretty much a given either way. Even the women in our family our boxing fans.

[Green Trees]

Watching the G.O.A.T Julio Cesar Chavez go on his legendary streak when I was a youngster with my pops. He always won!

[The plunger man]

With your logic, Ali's overrated because he was rocked & knocked down by Henry Cooper. He was also in the minds of lots of people beaten by Doug Jones. I guess he can't be the GOAT anymore, huh?

Joe Louis lost virtually every round to Billy Conn, a light heavyweight before KOin him. He can't be the GOAT either, right?

And AJ's already lost to a fat slob like Andy Ruiz, who's never beaten anybody IN HIS PRIME, how do you know who he'll be losing to at 40 years old? He barely beat Vlad, who was 41, after getting completely schooled by Tyson Fury. He was rocked by Dillian Whyte in their fight as well.

And I never brought up Don King, whatsoever, so that's a strawman argument

As for Douglass, you know what Tyson was doing the night before that fight? Getting high & ****ing Japanese skanks with Bobby Brown.

https://eurweb.com/2017/10/08/bobby-...ke-tyson-loss/

Fact is, Douglas is the only guy to beat or come close to beating a prime Mike Tyson (pre-prison).

Holyfield, Lewis, and Williams feasted on the carcass of Mike Tyson.

I look at facts and judge them on thereo performances , you’ve already heard the story that Lewis handled Tyson easily when Tyson was with cus, and you’ve already seen the interview with Tyson after his brutal beating by Lewis after the fight saying he could never have beaten him yes ? Tyson is not rated higher by any well known historian than the likes of Lewis or Ali or Louis and it’s only people like you who are foolish to think he was some kind of demi god with his performances but reality he lost to every HOF he faced because he simply had only one way of winning.......Lewis was simply a better heavyweight and the history books prove it.
Tyson went a full 12 rounds with tucker and was rocked and Lewis dropped him 2 times and won every round.
Ruddock gave Tyson absolute hell 2 times and Lewis smashed him in 2 rounds.
Look your a Tyson fan I get it but he is not on the level of Lewis , I’ve never been a cheerleader for Ali but he still was a better boxer than Tyson.
As for Joshua I have never stated he is an all time legend , he still has a goood 5 years to cement his legacy and he has already shown he can adapt to win back his title unlike
Tyson who never adapted one bit hence his very short reign at the the top.

[The plunger man]

The early to mid eighties was the greatest era ever for boxing.....Leonard , Duran ,hagler , hearns , Benitez , arguello , Pryor , Sanchez , the rise of Mike Tyson.....i was a 9 year old with my first pair of gloves given to me in the early 80’s and it was just one super fight after another.

[Rustyman]

Muhammad Ali, the 80's middleweights. I hope to see boxing return to those heights in the future.

Our saviour, the Hearninator will take us back to those days.

[titanium]

Hearns Hagler. That was it.

[Blond Beast]

Spinks - light heavyweight
Holmes - came back from 2 yrs hiatus and fought on 1month notice. And he was past his prime.
Berbick - Not better than Takam.
Ruddock - overrated head hunter and career contender
Frank Bruno - big stiff robot that freezes once he gets hit. Dubois right now is a much more complete Bruno.

The 80s was a very weak era in the heavyweight division.

Now compare

Wlad - ATG
Povetkin - far better than Spinks as a heavyweight
Parker - better than Berbick in every department
Dillian Whyte - better Jamaican boxer than Ruddock
Ruiz - would beat Bruno with one eye closed.

I loved boxing from a young age. My opa was amateur champ in Friesland before the war. My classmate in Elementary school was Donny Lalondes half brother and he posted flyers for the Sugar Leonard Fight. I took the flyer home and my dad told me that the fight was indeed something. I loved Mike Tyson, had his game, rented his greatest hits. But the day after the Spinks fight I asked my Dad if there was anyone out there that could beat Mike Tyson? He said a guy named Evander Holyfield will will beat Mike Tyson. He’d only take even odds when they finally fought as to not put anyone out too much. So I’m with you, I didn’t grow up up being told Tyson was sum sort of unbeatable force. I’ve seen all his fights, he’s not want sum people want him to be. Only Mike could suffer the biggest upset in boxing history, it didn’t happen to anyone else. I mean ud think he’s first name was “Prime”.

[K-DOGG]

I guess Muhammad Ali. He was all over the television, when I was a kid and a very charismatic persona. Also, I have to give credit to the fact that between Wide World of Sports on ABC and the other two networks' (NBC and CBS) weekend sportscasts at the time, every weekend, it seemed, there was a fight on.

I'd watched pro-wrestling with my grandmother, when I was very young; but boxing was real....so, between all the great fights I could tune into and Ali's personality, I was hooked.

What's not to love?