Comments Thread For: Alan Minter, 69, Passes Away After Battle With Cancer

[Marvlus Marv]

Minter was the first boxer I knew of as a very young boy in the late 70s then Marvin came over and put on such a clinic and looked like the ultimate boxer/athlete, that I was HOOKED on Marv ever since that night. It was the night I really caught the boxing bug aged 5 yrs old.
The treatment of Hagler leaving the ring was a low point for British boxing but things have changed a lot since those days, thankfully.
Minter introduced me to boxing and Hagler introduced me to heroes.

[shenmue]

My dad went to the Hagler fight and the atmosphere was horrible from all accounts, my dad said you could see the fear on Minters face from the opening bell but my dad always enjoyed his fights, he is before my time but i have seen some of his fights of course.

I admire him for winning a world title after the The European fighter he fought died, that can't be easy. R.I.P Champ.

[Citizen Koba]

I grew up watching boxing on TV in the seventies. It was on all the time and hard to avoid. I vaguely remember watching a Minter Finnegan fight. Minter was huge in the UK at the time. Tony Sibson was a monster at the British level, tore through everyone but unfortunately for him, and Minter, there was an ATG - Hagler - waiting in the wings to monster them.

Yeah I was born 72 but we had no TV until after my old man came over from Greece in 81. I was kinda vaguely aware of boxing through weekend TV at my Grandfolks but don't recall watching any actual fights.

[thack]

Sad news.Minter gave us some exciting times back in the day.R.I.P. Alan .

[hugh grant]

RIP. Even if you are famous you can still have a private life and anonymity to a point. I've not seen anything of minter he's been under radar

[The Big Dunn]

RIP. The beating Hahker gave him and the crowd reaction after is something I will always remember.

Part of the reason Hagler is my all time favorite boxer.

[SteveM]

Yeah I was born 72 but we had no TV until after my old man came over from Greece in 81. I was kinda vaguely aware of boxing through weekend TV at my Grandfolks but don't recall watching any actual fights.

I was born 60 so I can remember Harry Carpenter introducing fights on the mid-week sports programme - SportsNight I think it was called. My mum was a bigger fan that my dad but she only was interested in watching Ali fight - so I know I watched the rumble in the jungles as a 13 year old but I can't remember it now. No TV huh? That wasn't so cool as a young kid. We didn't get a color tv until I was about 10 or so and no phone until I was 12 - how did we survive?

But I remember vaguely the commentator saying something like "...and Minter is going to have his work cut out against this fella Hagler" - lol - understatement of the year. That fight actually turned me into a huge Hagler fan.

[Citizen Koba]

I was born 60 so I can remember Harry Carpenter introducing fights on the mid-week sports programme - SportsNight I think it was called. My mum was a bigger fan that my dad but she only was interested in watching Ali fight - so I know I watched the rumble in the jungles as a 13 year old but I can't remember it now. No TV huh? That wasn't so cool as a young kid. We didn't get a color tv until I was about 10 or so and no phone until I was 12 - how did we survive?

But I remember vaguely the commentator saying something like "...and Minter is going to have his work cut out against this fella Hagler" - lol - understatement of the year. That fight actually turned me into a huge Hagler fan.

Yeah, funny now having no TV, it wasn't unknown back then but it was unusual.. mainly remember my primary years as climbing trees, building dens and reading... a lot. Guess you don't miss what you never had. Damn even when we did get a TV my old man guarded that 14" B&W piece of crap like it was the crown ***els - said everything on it was 'capitalist propaganda'... cept he liked sports, the Olympics and Boxing in particular. Probably why I came back to boxing after he died.

Can't remember the very first fights I watched but the first fighter that really stuck with me was McGuigan, then Bugner and of course Franky Bruno.

[Slip jab]

almost certain that Minter inspired Bhop to state his own controversial phrase in reference to Joe smith

[Joseph]

Rest easy, Champ.