First Fight You Can Remember?

[oogiebe]

When I saw the thread title and Stuarty start off with "I can kind of remember my dad and mam..." I thought we were in for a hell of a story.

LMFAO! Why didn't I think of that!!!!

[Verdi]

Tyson Vs Bruno 1 at age 6.

[banjo]

Benn v Dewitt I think

[forcefraser]

Hagler v Minter

Remember thinking Hagler was the hardest man on earth. Turns out I was not far wrong

[bigjack]

Colin Jones v Milton McCrory 1

[keithmoonhangover]

The Thrilla in Manila for me. My dad said I could watch it with him, if I kept quiet - obviously I didn't. by the time I was 11, Larry Holmes was my hero and the rest is history.

[afcmarshall]

My first memory was watching Eubank/Benn the 1st one with my dad when i was about 6 used to love Eubank back then but think I would of hated him had he been around now. Tyson/Holyfield (ear biting DQ) was the first fight that I watched without my dad about 10 of us all 12/13 stayed at my mates house to watch the fight in the early hours.

[orbtastic]

Born in 72, I don't really know. I remember Ali, Frazier and Holmes so that was probably late 70s.

[JWP]

Born in 72 also, the first fight i remember was Holmes v Ali 1980. I had heard of the name Ali and I knew it was something special, but being a kid I couldn't understand why and how he was getting beaten up by Holmes. Pretty sad for a first fight actually!!

[JWP]

Born in 72 also, the first fight i remember was Holmes v Ali 1980. I had heard of the name Ali and I knew it was something special, but being a kid I couldn't understand why and how he was getting beaten up by Holmes. Pretty sad for a first fight actually!!

[brian13]

Lewis / Tyson

[Noxy]

The first fight I remember watching was Moore vs Duran. I was hooked from then on.

[sweetmagee]

Really had to think but I'm pretty sure mine - like JWP above - was Ali v Holmes in 1980. I was 9 and know I knew who Ali was but that was about as far as my knowledge went. Think I'd heard something about him beating Leon Spinks in their second fight.

Thinking about it I reckon Ali v Holmes was shown during the day, maybe the day after the fight rather than live. No way I'd have been watching it if it'd been late at night. Actually, around that time for a nine year-old there wouldn't have been much boxing on in daylight hours that I could stay up to watch, don't think many fights were live on tv unless it was Sportsnight on BBC.

[Fray Bentos]

A Mike Weaver title defence on World of Sport, one I remember vividly was Colin Jones knocking out Hans Henrik Palm live from Denmark on Saturday afternoon on World of Sport...

[milpool]

Mine's memorable for all the wrong reasons...Johnny Owen v Lupe Pintor.

[Cholo_cws]

I have vague recollections of Ali-Foreman taking place and on the day of the BBC's delayed tv broadcast telling one of my brothers and my dad that Foreman would win (probably because he looked mean and tougher.) I was nearly six and didn't realise the fight had already taken place and that they knew the result. I don't have any memories of the fight though.
The first fight I can definitely remember was Ali-Spinks I. I remember watching it with my gran from Cornwall who lived with us at the time and although she really was the archetypal sweet, little old lady she used to love boxing and get quite worked up about it. In pre-tv days she used to listen to the boxing commentaries and reports on the radio.

[Counter-puncher]

I very vaguely remember Hagler/Minter or at least, that Minter got slashed up and there was a mini-riot afterwards.

[oogiebe]

I very vaguely remember Hagler/Minter or at least, that Minter got slashed up and there was a mini-riot afterwards.

It was like a mass food fight! Sh#t flying everywhere in the ring. I remember it vividly! LMAO! Forgot about that!

[oogiebe]

Hagler v Minter

Remember thinking Hagler was the hardest man on earth. Turns out I was not far wrong

No, you were not. Hagler was hard core. The only knock I remember about him was his fight plan for Leanard.

[jamamb]

joshua vs parker, im actually only 2 years old and i think tony bellew is the greatest fighter ever

hmmm, but actually i think i got started on seeing re-runs of ali fights , i dont remember anything about the specifics of year or station but it seemed during one week they were showing a bunch of him. mustve been an ali week or something. and i remember the cooper fight especially and the knockdown.

one of my first observations was that i thought the gloves looked all puffy and were soft like pillows and i had no idea why boxers acted so hurt and got knocked down and stuff

[Southy1922]

Billy schwer v colin dunne or bruno v tyson 2.

[oogiebe]

Billy schwer v colin dunne or bruno v tyson 2.

wow! what was it you remembered?

[SenorPipino]

I very vaguely remember Hagler/Minter or at least, that Minter got slashed up and there was a mini-riot afterwards.

It was like a mass food fight! Sh#t flying everywhere in the ring. I remember it vividly! LMAO! Forgot about that!

I recall watching that bout in my Las Vegas hotel room.

I was there the weekend before Ali-Holmes watching the public workouts at the now defunct Caesar's Pavillion.

Yes, the British fans didn't take too kindly to Hagler's stoppage. There had been some racist overtones to the pre-fight hype that might have contributed to the eventual melee.

Hagler was dragged from the Wembley ring just seconds after the fight ended in the third.

Most of the debris appeared to be beer bottles, but I'm sure plenty other crap was tossed too.

[Coco]

This really got me thinking, i couldnt put them in any order without looking them up!
First i thougt it was jones v mcvrory, then i realised i saw the laing fights
Hearns hagler was later
I remember one on Bugners come backs too v winton allen and the marvis fraiser.
I also remember Prince Rodney v Jimmy Cable.
In those days apart from the big libe fights you would get british stuff on a saturday afternoon

[SenorPipino]

I can vaguely remember seeing a replay of Ali massacring Big Cat Williams in 1966.

Also Joe Frazier against George "Scrap Iron" Johnson from the Olympic Auditorium at about the same time. Joe pummeled Scrap Iron for 10 rounds, but Johnson was apparently so elated that he went the distance that he performed a jig in the ring at the final bell.

The first fight that I vividly recall watching was a 1967 Olympic Auditorium clash between then unbeaten teenage lightweight hotshot Mando Ramos and a tough Korean named Suh Kang Il.

I was a huge Ramos fan even though I had only read about him in the newspapers and this was the first fight of his that I actually witnessed.

It was razor close but the older, more experienced Korean came away with a unanimous verdict, snapping Ramos' unbeaten skein at 17.

Somehow, the very partial pro-Ramos Olympic crowd didn't see fit to riot after the decision was announced.