Staying Up

[Nightmare Roy]

Can’t stay up any more, got to be up with the little en first thing, used to stay up all the time with my mates years ago, i did get up for Brook Crawford last month and then went back to bed, but that’s the first time in ages

[blanca]

I remember staying up for james the heat kinchen vs tommy hearns on itv, long time ago, was easy back then, ruins the next day for me now

[emallini]

It destroys my sleep pattern

[DrDuke]

As I'm from Russia, I'm on a couple of hours ahead of the UK, so for me it's easier not to stay up, but to get up earlier in the morning.

Yeah, I do it quite often. This year I did that rarely for obvious reasons. This year I got up for Loma-Lopez and Fury-Wilder II.

I'll get up tomorrow for Spence-Garcia. I'm sorta preparing for it now, as I got up today early and now I'm writing here at 7:30 a.m.

[Pukka Cheese]

I do a couple nightshifts every week so pretty easy to stay up if its worth it...

[banjo]

I'm more likely to go to bed early and then get up around 2 or 3 for those big American fights, the days of staying up all night are long gone.

Same! That's the solution. I wish I'd thought of it when I was younger. Classics like Bowe-Holyfield 1 would have been even better if I hadn't been so tired at the time.

Yeah I used to like to watch the whole card but these day's settle just for the main event and maybe the main support bout. In the past when I did stay up all night it just f*cked my Sunday up because I'd end up in bed until mid-afternoon. and you end up having wasted an entire day off.

[bennie]

I stayed up for a few, dating back to the Ali-Spinks rematch in 1978 in New Orleans. I watched it at the Birmingham Odeon which was packed to the rafters and the atmosphere was buzzing as Ali eased his way to a 15-round decision over the hapless Spinks, who looked nothing like the ferocious fighter he did in their first fight seven months earlier. I think Spinks had spent the entire seven months celebrating. Also on the bill, Danny "Little Red" Lopez climbed up from a first-round knockdown to destroy Argentina's Juan Domingo Malvarez in the second in defence of his WBC featherweight title. Lopez had already established himself as one of the most exciting fighters in boxing and this just about sealed it. Lopez needed flooring to wake him up. Philadelphia's Mike Rossman almost stole the whole show with a one-sided pounding of Argentine great Victor Galindez on the way to the WBA light-heavyweight title. Galindez was a monster but his preparation proved disastrous as he half-killed himself to make the weight. In contrast, Rossman had trained with Ali at his famous Deer Lake camp in Pennsylvania and gave the greatest performance of his whole career. He picked Galindez apart and cut him to ribbons, and the stoppage in the 13th round came as something of a relief. A defiant Galindez walked over to Rossman immediately after the stoppage as if to say, 'we meet again.' Amazingly, he did beat Rossman in their rematch.
Worth a mention on the night is Romania's Mircea Simon, who chinned someone in the opening round. Simon had defected to the United States after the 1976 Olympics, where he reached the heavyweight final and was boxing the ears off Teofilo Stevenson until the Cuban giant dropped in a big right and Simon went down and out. Stevenson chinned everyone in the Games, including John Tate. As for Simon, his pro career fizzled out but he never actually lost a fight. His Romanian roots reminds me of an interview given by Gerrie Coetzee after his stunning win over Mike Dokes in the States in 1983. Reg Gutteridge asked him what his plans were and Coetzee in his thick South African accent said, "I am going to Romania."
"Romania?" said Reg.
"Yes, I am going to Romania." He meant "remain here" of course.
Another good night featured Larry Holmes against Gerry Cooney in June 1982. I watched it at the Odeon in Leicester Square. Frank Bruno was there with ABA sensation Tony Adams, who somehow didn't get anywhere as a pro. I had no respect for Cooney. He was a great white dope in my mind but he fought a good fight in defeat and should have won a world heavyweight title in the years that followed but his career lacked momentum. He was poorly managed. Trevor Berbick really impressed on the card when he ended the unbeaten record of Greg Page on a clear 10-round decision. Berbick was given no chance beforehand but he bullied Page throughout. The night also featured the brilliant Wilfredo Gomez of Puerto Rico, who retained his WBC super-bantamweight title with a 10-round knockout of Mexico's Juan Antonio Lopez. Lopez gave it a go but Gomez took him out with a sickening left uppercut to the body and went on to make 17 defences of his title, all of them inside the distance. He used the same left uppercut to the body to see off Lupe Pintor later in 1982, in one of the best fights of the decade.
I was disappointed that they didn't show Earnie Shavers against James Tillis on the night. Instead we got a taped fight between Rafael "Bazooka" Limon against Rolando Navarette for the WBC super-featherweight title, which took place a few week earlier in Las Vegas. Limon outlasted the Filipino.
I also stayed up to watch Sugar Ray Leonard's upset win over Marvin Hagler in Las Vegas in April 1987. Again, I watched it 'live' at the Leicester Square Odeon and the place was packed. I saw Gary Stretch in there, and Roy Gumbs, and we could all see that Leonard was going to win from the very first round. Hagler was getting old and was actually trying to outbox Leonard in an attempt to humiliate him. If he had jumped on Leonard, he would have won. Also on the night, Mexico's rugged Lupe Aquino dished out a beating to Davey Moore until Moore was pulled out in the fifth round with a badly swollen right eye. Davey never really got over his defeat at the hands of Roberto Duran four years earlier. Argentina's Juan Domingo Roldan really stood out on the card against American contender James Kinchen. Roldan came out and hammered the gutsy Kinchen until everyone had seen enough in the ninth round.

[Frostieballs]

Sometimes I stay up.

But there is a certain charm to a Sunday morning, 10am bacon sandwich & coffee and watching a recording.

[Kilburn]

I couldn't do it these days. The thought of handling the little maniacs on a Sunday morning with no sleep gives me nightmares.

As a teenager I remember falling asleep pissed before Lewis v Golota back in 97. I was so scared of Golota as an opponent I couldn't bear to wind the tape back and watch it, I had to get straight onto Teletext for the result - "Lewis blows Golota away". Get in.

[hitman_hatton1]

that hopkins-joppy card left mental scars for years tbh.

[revporl]

Fights are nearly always uploaded to Youtube by the morning. So I usually watch Sunday morning for free. Still buy the fights that happen at a reasonable hour though.

[Fires]

I stay up for what is supposed to be a good fight. In other words I stay up for the UFC and very very few boxing nights. Brook vs Crawford I stayed up for.