Name The First Five Years...

[Goodnight, Irene]

2002-2007

No sh!t. Late starter, huh? What prompted that, then?

[Goodnight, Irene]

1966-71.

1966 saw the Ali Euro defenses of the title against Cooper, London and Mildenberger, all on ABC'S Wide World of Sports with Cosell calling the action.

The coming of Frazier plus the WBA elimination tournament featuring other excellent heavies.

Tiger, Griffith, Benvenuti, Foster, Cokes, Monzon are others of that era that quickly come to mind. Many, many others.

All climaxing in 1971 with arguably the most important athletic event of the century, featuring two undefeated heavyweight champions at the time when both were nearest their peak in easily the most important fight of their careers.

Not a bad stretch, but your first five years only climaxes with the Fight Of The Century. Mine climaxes with The Fight Of The Millenium ;)

I don' know, where you there for the Anarchimides v Lovhahdknobopoulos bout in 157 A.D.?

Who needs that, when I have confirmation from the poster tagline, baby... 8)

"De La Hoya. Trinidad. The Fight of the Millenium."

[sweetsci]

1976-1981, starting at age 8 3/4. First TV fight was Ali-Coopman, then Ali-Young, then Ali-Dunn. Three heavyweight title fights, three months in a row, all on free TV. First pro live fight was Whittaker-Ramirez II in Norfolk, VA, in 1989, when I was stationed there while in the Navy.

[m1kee50]

2002-2007

No sh!t. Late starter, huh? What prompted that, then?

I had a whole longer post written for that and then hit the back button by mistake lol...

I've always been around boxing, my two uncles boxed, and the way I grew up was around boxing gyms, snooker halls, scrap yards, it was the area I grew up in... anyways, I would watch bits and bobs but always with them or my dad... wasnt till Lewis-Tyson that I really took it upon myself to seek out a fight... since then I've owned every copy of Boxing News since 2004, I've been to as many shows as possible at my local venues, tho not yet made it further afield. Going to see my first fight at a football fround in May, Mitchell v Katsidis.

I dont really have any favourite fighters from that period tho... mainly my boxing influences are the lighter James Toney, the modern Hopkins (yeah i said it!) i dont like the idea of boxing being a sport where some big lump brains people for money... i like to watch fighters in whom that strength is augmented, and sometimes tempered, with a cleverness, an awareness.

[Crease]

My first fight that I ever watched was Mike Tyson vs Frank Bruno, o I guess that would be mid 90s.

[dberry]

Yeah, I watched that fight,a cracker G,I. I had to work the security in the public bar of the Village Green for that one, on short notice. I told them I'd only work for that fight if they understood that I was not, under any circumstances, to be disturbed during the main event. Sure enough a fight broke out at the bar during the fifth round, and as I was the only security on, the manager asked me to take care of it. I told him not till after the final bell, by which time these two, regulars, where buying each other drinks.
Not a bad stretch, but your first five years only climaxes with the Fight Of The Century. Mine climaxes with The Fight Of The Millenium ;)

I don' know, where you there for the Anarchimides v Lovhahdknobopoulos bout in 157 A.D.?

Who needs that, when I have confirmation from the poster tagline, baby... 8)

"De La Hoya. Trinidad. The Fight of the Millenium."