I got into boxing casually for a few years at the start watching Tuesday Night Fights & Top Rank Boxing on Thursdays(?) iirc & some of the big fights on HBO after discovering the guys I watched "fighting" in the WWF & NWA weren't fighting for real lol. Thats how I recall dipping my toe into boxing at the time.
I for sure remember the day I became a hardcore boxing fan doe. It was on Aug. 4, 1988 when I tuned into Tuesday Night Fights to watch Calvin Grove (34-0), who I just read about in KO magazine & was excited to see fight, defend his title vs an unknown 22 year old ex-circus performer Jorge Paez in Paez's hometown of Mexicali, Mexico. It wasn't the greatest fight, but I remember going into the 15th round (random trivia this was the last fight to go the full 15 rounds) Sean O'Grady saying Paez needed to drop Grove 3 times to win the fight...and Paez proceeded to doing just that much to my pleasure & excitement. It was like some movie **** in retrospect & from then on I don't think I missed a fight for years, I purchased every boxing mag I could find & pretty much never watched another non-fighting sport since that day.
I for sure remember the day I became a hardcore boxing fan doe. It was on Aug. 4, 1988 when I tuned into Tuesday Night Fights to watch Calvin Grove (34-0), who I just read about in KO magazine & was excited to see fight, defend his title vs an unknown 22 year old ex-circus performer Jorge Paez in Paez's hometown of Mexicali, Mexico. It wasn't the greatest fight, but I remember going into the 15th round (random trivia this was the last fight to go the full 15 rounds) Sean O'Grady saying Paez needed to drop Grove 3 times to win the fight...and Paez proceeded to doing just that much to my pleasure & excitement. It was like some movie **** in retrospect & from then on I don't think I missed a fight for years, I purchased every boxing mag I could find & pretty much never watched another non-fighting sport since that day.
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