whats your earliest boxing memory?

[47Style]

Goes back to the ALI days, remember watching him lose the first Spinks fight.

[Old bones Ian]

I can remember being round a friends house and his Dad shouting at the TV, it was Larry Holmes v Ali.
But first fight that i remember thinking 'this is good' was Hagler v Fulgencio Obelmejias !!

Odd one , but it stuck in my mind.
Hagler just looked the part so much.

[jonp]

Dunno actualy which was first but remember my dad throwing a bottle thru our tv when Mcguigan got beat by cruz and i also remember honeyghan beating Curry and a big shout goping round the house.

[jonp]

We lost another tv when honeyghan lost to jorge vaca that was a plate that time lol

[damianhucker1]

not sure on dates but i know the first 3 actually remember watching were tyson bruno 1 , tyson douglas and benn eubank , there would have been others around the time of those but there the ones i remember , tyson douglas wasnt live though as i remember my uncle asking my dad to put it on as hed heard he got beat , was around 11pm so must have been the following night .

[dondada]

We lost another tv when honeyghan lost to jorge vaca that was a plate that time lol

[n1ebf]

We lost another tv when honeyghan lost to jorge vaca that was a plate that time lol

Dixon's must have loved your Dad!

[jonp]

We lost another tv when honeyghan lost to jorge vaca that was a plate that time lol

Dixon's must have loved your Dad!

Not realy it was usualy on of their vans he got into to get another one.

[dondada]

Dixon's must have loved your Dad!

Not realy it was usualy on of their vans he got into to get another one.

Ha ha! It gets better!!

[Counter-puncher]

[jonp]

Dixon's must have loved your Dad!

Not realy it was usualy one of their vans he got into to get another one.

Ha ha! It gets better!!

Yeh the boxing ring was quite a calm normal place for me as a child i think i got in there to relax

[bad mamma jamma]

Dixon's must have loved your Dad!

Not realy it was usualy on of their vans he got into to get another one.

Ha ha! It gets better!!

i have had a bad week and this story made me laugh..fkin love it when people get so fkd up about boxing, shows passion...thanks dude!

my first memory must be Minter getting battered by Hagler on telly in the front room...nowadays that fight would have been stuck on sky...if it had been that way back then I would not have seen it cos we could barely afford a telly back then and i would probably not be the boxing fanatic I am today...

[1southpaw]

Mine is watching Benn rocking back on his heels and going down from a Watson jab. I would have been around 9 or 10.

6th round mate but what a classic fight one of my all time british fights

I had no idea about that result at all until I rescued Michael Watson's "The Biggest Fight", from the bargain bucket at a bookshop. A brilliant book. Watson had been injured just prior to my taking any real interest in boxing.

It seems he got his break against Mike Mcallum at the wrong time, and against Eubank it sounds like he was out-everything him...then the result vs. Benn. You get the impression that Watson was a fighter of the highest calibre on his day. I would recommend it to anybody that book.

must aggree mate this book is a wicked read , the bit that got me was when he was doing the marathon and the fella came up to him and give him the money, ???