How and when did you get into boxing?

[ElMasChingon]

The first fight I recall vividly was Chavez vs Whitaker. Been watching ever since. Back in the 90's, we would gather at my GodMother's crib and watch all the PPV bouts. It was a tradition. Boxing has always been my favorite sport.

 

[MJ Truth]

Can't remember the first fight I watched but I do know Zab was the first and only fighter I stanned.

 

[unseen]

I was kinda casual when my dad used to watch chavez sr. And I would watch tyson and other heavyweights from time to time.

Probably around de la hoya vs mayweather is when I started watching more in depth

 

[Bomberman]

Watching Mike Tyson in the 80's. I was 5 years old I believe when he dropped Michael Spinks.

 

[Mike Otherz]

2 fighters and my father. Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson. My father was a solid boxing fan, i wont say die hard, but he loved Muhammad Ali as you can imagine, Ali was his era and everything Ali was about in and out of the ring. imagine being a nigerian who went to the Uk in the 70's to study and all the cacs and racism you would have to deal with, Ali was just gonna be an inspiration to any black person the world over. i think he might have even met Ali when he came to Nigeria once and came to where my pops worked which was a international Hotel chain.

anyway, he used to have that AKA Cassius Clay tape and thats the first i can remember about boxing. and of course, Ali’s personality was gonna draw you in period. I remember watching his 50th birthday special where they had all the celebrities etc, dude was like a movie star. So even though he was well before my time, it was my fathers having tapes of him lying around the house that really brought me on.

and of course 80’s Tyson. I was just a kid but even then, beyond his style of fighting, his life story was very interesting. My first awarenes of him was the first Bruno Fight. I lived in nigeria at the time, so the fight was the UK feed recorded to tape, and the stories they did of both fighters Tyson was just way more interesting. even then he came across as a lonely dude fighting to keep it together and Brunos cac wife was slating him in her interview about how nobody love him and he have no friends unlike her husband bruno. even my mama was like fk that bish.

 

[JDee323]

I got my introduction in the late 80s/early 90s from my dad. We saw a lot of Chavez fights, but the first one i really recall is the rematch with Frankie Randall.

I was a casual who watched mainly whatever was on hbo or ppv. It wasn't until around 05 when i started watching Friday and Wednesday night fights on espn and was like

Ever since then i been following the sport religiously.

 

[Malta]

My father was and is a huge boxing fan, I used to watch it with him as early as 4-5 years old, he also taught me how to box. So I have a lot of good memories associated with people getting the shyt beat out of them, my sister is into boxing as well. My pops trained in Kung fu so he was always heavy into combat, we'd go to watch Golden Gloves, Kung Fu expos all types of shyt. We call him Ghost Dog sometimes for jokes, he doesn't like it but that character is a lot like him, minus all the killing

 

[WhodatWhoadi]

The latino side of my fam was heavy into boxing,always throwing cookouts/fight parties and shyt... early 90s I remember bits and pieces of different fights,,, It wasnt untill maybe the late 90s/early 2000s when I legit got heavy into it...When Oscar,Fernando and Tito were doing their thang...pretty boy floyd was poppin upRoy Jones jr, Evander, Lennox Lewis,Erik Morales,Marco Antonio Barrera,Prince Naseem,Arturo Gatti etc etc

then you go back and watch the old fights and fall in love with the sport even more

 

[Mook]

I dont even know bruh. I think it mighta been israel vs marquez triology

 

[mastermind]

Watching Tuesday night fights on the USA network with my pops when I was a youngin

this for me as well

This was back in the early 90s.

Also going to the barbers and hearing everyone talk about boxing.

 

[SuikodenII]

Tyson and Whitaker...

Tyson had me like "Boxing is the shyt!"

and Hometown hero Pernell Whitaker had me like "Boxing is the shyt."

What sealed the deal for me was Greatest Heavyweights for the Sega Genesis. I went out and read as many books as I could about past time boxers after becoming obsessed with that game.

 

[Achille]

It was the early 80's for me even as young child always loved the sport and used to watch all the fights with my Dad on local channels then on cable. I wanted to box but my Dad wouldn't let me "said I had a good looking face and didn't want it to get messed up".


I always liked the sport though and even liked watching no names etc. So over that time span I had a many favorite fighters but the ones I connected the most with were Tyson and my GOAT RJJ.

 

[Black Miller]

This fight here


Before that, I was a casual (being that I was 13 and younger back then), but my Dad had this fight on TV and wasnt watching...he was arguing with my moms


Me and my lil bro was watching in the living room while they were arguing in the kitchen, so I just tuned in to the TV. Man, Roy was the most swaggerific fighter I had ever seen and he was just cocky as fukk in the ring with how he fought After RJJ hit him with the "chicken fake" and told the cameras afterwards "i almost killed that boy" I was immediately hooked


Needless to say, RJJ was my 1 first favorite fighter and if it wasnt for him, I probably wouldnt have paid attention to the sweet science


Thank You Roy

montell griffin needed to get the beats like this for this fight cause of all the stuff he was saying after the 1st fight. my memory might be hazy but i think he fought roy tough early on in the 1st fight, then roy figured him out then dropped him then got disqualified. griffin was saying how he won, i knew roy was gonna destroy him strictly off those comments.

that rematch was so funny in so many different ways- the way roy was throwing that left hook was reckless abandon and when it landed and griff stumbled back made me fall out of my seat laughing. then the 2nd knockdown with that hybrid hook/uppercut snapping griff neck back was deadly. then griff trying to beat the count and looking like disney on ice did it for me.

all commentary was classic after it was over- lamp,larry and george all turned counselor giving griff life lessons- lol at george saying that uppercut bent his neck backwards and down his spine. and come back another day, he predicted roy as a heavyweight perfectly too.

as far as boxing, i always watched the big fights as a kid, especially the ppvs with the cheater box my grandma had back in the mid 90s. but as far as fully locking back in probably sometime back in 2010. i always love watching the fights when i know the background so pretty much from 2010 i kinda been way more focused on it.

 

[sabaw]

Mayweather-Corrales my uncle is a huge chico stan talked so much shyt before the fight and how Corrales would K.O him in 3 rounds and it basically annoyed us


When the fight happened and as soon as after the 2nd round I had the face. When he got knocked down in the 7th . My dad and his brothers was egging him asking what happened in fight etc next thing you know by the 8 round he just left

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

I was born in the mid 70's..and remember Ali vs Holmes and the last ali fight and then the fab era..i was young but had uncles and cousins all up in the crib ready to rumble. GREAT TIMES MAN.
My pops used to take me and brothers to fights, I was too young to remember some of the great cards but photographs in our albums really do give me the chills..
basically, been watching boxing all my damn life.