What Fight Got You Into Boxing?

[Slippery Pete II]

Mine was Gerrie Coetzee vs Renaldo Snipes.


It was 1981 and I was 9 years old. My brother and I watched it on one of the big three networks (I think it was CBS).
This fight had some really good action. Good enough to make me want to seek out more of the fight game.

Snipes survived two knockdowns and got a highly controversial split decision win. It's considered one of the more blatant robberies of the 80's.

I was hooked after watching that fight.

What fight got you into boxing?

[marciano1952]

the one that really Hooked me was Emanuel Augustus vs Ray Oliveira on FNF

[TheSickness316]

I started getting into boxing watching old Mike Tyson fights on ESPN Classic when they were shown 5 days a week.


But I guess the one fight that I watched live and caught my eye and got me more hooked is Tyson vs. Lewis.

[NoPropaganda 253]

Hagler vs. Sugar Ray. I was 10. TV got brought out from the "tv room" at my Grandparents for the first time in my life during dinner. Sugar Ray fascinated me and I though he won clean as a kid. Watched it later in life and saw it much closer. I was hooked after that evening.

[gilgamesh]

Leonard Dorin vs Raul Balbi - January 5, 2002



Larry Merchant on commentary: "What's this show called? Real men, real fights?"

[gilgamesh]

the one that really Hooked me was Emanuel Augustus vs Ray Oliveira on FNF

I always thought it was a really honorable thing of Emanuel Augustus to do that when Ray Oliveira was hurt by an accidental blow to the back of the head, and was showing obvious pain, and trying to fight on in spite of it Augustus never threw another shot at his head for the remainder of the bout.

Eventually Smoger stopped it because it was obvious Oliveira was in no condition to continue.

[Tocsin]

Paulie Ayala vs Bones Adams

[elterrible]

Trinidad-camacho was the first fight i remember watching on PPV.


I believe it was the chavez-whitaker card, early 90s.

[straycat]

Hagler vs. Sugar Ray. I was 10. TV got brought out from the "tv room" at my Grandparents for the first time in my life during dinner. Sugar Ray fascinated me and I though he won clean as a kid. Watched it later in life and saw it much closer. I was hooked after that evening.

Damn you about 20yrs older than I would of figured.

[the13r]

I was a mma fan... we had MMA on cable before it was in US... it was on RDS and they were showing Vale Tudo (brazil) and UCC which became TKO... (David Loiseau and George St_Pierre...)...

My friend had a black box which could decode analog PPV channels... So we were watching UFC, PRIDEFC, BUSHIDO (Pride prospect league) too...

But thanks to that black box we were exposed to boxing like Don King HW cards and RJJr, DLH, Hopkins, Mosley, Tyson, Holyfield...


But still a MMA fan, it's more when i started to work night shift and catch WNF and FNF which were shown at 11pm on a sports channel here.... I had a TV during my night shift at public works and it was pretty dead when the shifts started at 11...

And one of the GREAT fights i remember catching almost live were the Augustus fight like marciano posted and the Letterlough vs Hall fight!


Letterlough gain


Delvin Rodriguez vs Christopher Henry too

WNF and FNF had great seasons in those years




From then i started to collect boxing and basically got every single career sets available through trades... built imo one of the biggest fight collection known to man and got TTR started.

[straycat]

I remember always watching fights when my dad ("GOD" Rest His Soul) had them on so it be tough to pin point any actual one.

[jeff_lacy_ko]

Naseem hamed vs kevin Kelly

What a fight and what a show

[the13r]

Naseem hamed vs kevin Kelly

What a fight and what a show

total package of a fight imo

my 2nd all time best fav fight

[NoPropaganda 253]

Hagler vs. Sugar Ray. I was 10. TV got brought out from the "tv room" at my Grandparents for the first time in my life during dinner. Sugar Ray fascinated me and I though he won clean as a kid. Watched it later in life and saw it much closer. I was hooked after that evening.

Damn you about 20yrs older than I would of figured.

Not much you figure correctly poor lil buddy. That's why you are who you are lol. Good talk.

[straycat]

Hagler vs. Sugar Ray. I was 10. TV got brought out from the "tv room" at my Grandparents for the first time in my life during dinner. Sugar Ray fascinated me and I though he won clean as a kid. Watched it later in life and saw it much closer. I was hooked after that evening.

Damn you about 20yrs older than I would of figured.

Not much you figure correctly poor lil buddy. That's why you are who you are lol. Good talk.

Ya got a kid at heart vibe I guess, always nice to feel as young as you can though it gets tougher as the years pass.

[FightFanAL]

Holyfield-Bowe 1 is when I got hooked.

[USMILMAN]

I’ve watched boxing pretty much my whole life. Larry Holmes was my dad’s favorite, so of course I liked him. I really like Hagler as a kid, but my favorite was Michael Carbajal. His fight with Gonzales is what really hooked me.

[Pangloss]

Just from a dumbly watching and enjoying standpoint, Tyson-Spinks and Tyson in general hooked me as a kid, and we always had HBO, USA and ESPN growing up, so fights were typically on in the house whenever they were on those stations, which was pretty often, but I often was only half paying attention and watching just the main events, and we rarely got PPV after Tyson’s apex until I was old enough to to pay for it myself.



From the standpoint of actually taking time to start learning about the history of the sport and really paying attention to what was going on in the ring, Jones-Griffin 2 was what got me really hooked and Jones quickly became, and remains, my favorite of all time.

[Mr.TKO]

Trinidad VS Mayorga....


I used to watch the occasional fight with my dad but after this one I started watching every big fight.

[jeff_lacy_ko]

Just from a dumbly watching and enjoying standpoint, Tyson-Spinks and Tyson in general hooked me as a kid, and we always had HBO, USA and ESPN growing up, so fights were typically on in the house whenever they were on those stations, which was pretty often, but I often was only half paying attention and watching just the main events, and we rarely got PPV after Tyson’s apex until I was old enough to to pay for it myself.

From the standpoint of actually taking time to start learning about the history of the sport and really paying attention to what was going on in the ring, Jones-Griffin 2 was what got me really hooked and Jones quickly became, and remains, my favorite of all time.

Interesting i never knew that. I always assumed it was wlad but I guess by the time we ended on ttr Jones was done at the top. Also weird o watched that fight tonight out of the blue!

[straycat]

Just from a dumbly watching and enjoying standpoint, Tyson-Spinks and Tyson in general hooked me as a kid, and we always had HBO, USA and ESPN growing up, so fights were typically on in the house whenever they were on those stations, which was pretty often, but I often was only half paying attention and watching just the main events, and we rarely got PPV after Tyson’s apex until I was old enough to to pay for it myself.

From the standpoint of actually taking time to start learning about the history of the sport and really paying attention to what was going on in the ring, Jones-Griffin 2 was what got me really hooked and Jones quickly became, and remains, my favorite of all time.

Interesting i never knew that. I always assumed it was wlad but I guess by the time we ended on ttr Jones was done at the top. Also weird o watched that fight tonight out of the blue!

They both take a backseat to the Hulkster.

[Cagiva9]

No particular fight. As a kid I loved watching the card they broadcast every Thursday night from the Olympic Auditorium. Great fights, not so many big names but some.

[the13r]

No particular fight. As a kid I loved watching the card they broadcast every Thursday night from the Olympic Auditorium. Great fights, not so many big names but some.

It's insane how week day boxing kind of died in America and across the globe... doing the today in boxing history, there were so many great series like tuesday night fight, wednesday night fights... and around the 60s to 80s, LOTS of great cards on Mondays

[ObJuan13]

My dad watched a lot of boxing so I kinda just did too. The fight that made something click for me was probably Oscar vs Vargas

I don’t know why... probably had the amount of action and skill I needed to see at that time or something

[Slippery Pete II]

No particular fight. As a kid I loved watching the card they broadcast every Thursday night from the Olympic Auditorium. Great fights, not so many big names but some.

It's insane how week day boxing kind of died in America and across the globe... doing the today in boxing history, there were so many great series like tuesday night fight, wednesday night fights... and around the 60s to 80s, LOTS of great cards on Mondays

Australia is the exception. Their biggest fights have always been on something like a Wednesday night? I've always found that very odd.