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What is your first memory of watching a fight?? For me, I was 6 and remember being sad after watching holmes beat ali. yours??

Ten years old, watching my first ever fight, & lucky enough to witness it live --- Foreman knocking out Moorer 8)

I don't remember a specific fight, but I remember my Dad letting me stay up with him to watch the "Gillette Friday Night Fights" on TV when I was 5 or 6 years old.

Tyson/Spinks. My dad bet me that it wouldn't go past 2 rounds.

Im sure it was either Lewis vs Bruno or Eubanks Benn II

For some reason i remember them being close together i could be wrong

DLH/Trinidad. My entire PR family was watching it. My aunt and her husband [who was Mexican] were the only two rooting for DLH. After everyone was hyped at the beginning I remember my aunt was the only one of out everyone talking trash throughout the fight. There wasn't a peep in the house as the scorecards were bring read everyone assuming a DLH victory but the house exploded when Trinidad was declared the winner.

i was 9 or 10 i watched the 2nd tyson-bruno fight with my uncle

Bruno fighting Bugner. I was only a kid and I knew nothing about boxing but everybody knew who Frank was. I remember thinking Frank was losing, although he probably wasn't and going mental when it was stopped. Probably running round making Rocky noises and punching the cushions of the armchair.

Gronk Vs Neanderthal Ned.......around 10,000BC.

No film, exists just stone tablet etched accounts that seem to conflict (eye of the beholder and all). As I recall Gronk was down about 2 dozen times before taking the previously undefeated NN out in the 238th round. Took a long time for that to play out ( a single round being a day long back then, each round ending at dusk at the sound of two rocks cracking together to signal the end and to begin the next round at dawn.)

Fighters have it easy these days. 12 rounds/ 3 minutes each....etc.

But to be fair, the best fighters only fought about 1 fight a year back then, hmm wait a minute that part hasn't changed much.

Tyson-Bonecrusher Smith. I was 7. My grand father taped it
on beta, and watched it the day after.

1946, I was ten years old, my dad and uncles took me to see Ike Williams fight Enrique Bolanos live for Williams's lightweight title, Wrigley Field, Los Angeles, Ca.

Chris Finnegan winning the gold medal in the 1968 Olympics.

The final Ali vs. Norton fight. Consensus view was that Norton got screwed.

Robinson wrote:Tyson-Bonecrusher Smith. I was 7. My grand father taped it
on beta, and watched it the day after.

haha that imence betamax were amazing

For me it was the Holyfield-Foreman fight, I fell in love instantly and was thoroughly intrigued by the size and style differences that makes that fight still intriguing to watch to this day.

I'm not sure...I only had 5 channels growing up and I'm not sure I ever saw any fights as a little kid. First one I can remember clearly was Tyson vs. Buster Mathis, Jr, which I saw at a family friend's house sometime near Christmas. I was probably about 12 then. I don't know if I saw any others until the first Bowe-Golata fight, which I think was about 3 years later off the top of my head. I always loved it every time I got to see one back then, though.

It was either Ali-Mildenberger or Ali-Bonavena; I just remember the more talented Ali going through hell against a very brave man.

Boxing was being watched in my house since long before I was born but the first fight I remember watching the build up to, and then the fight was that modern classic, Joe Bugner-Winston Allen.

HenryK wrote:The final Ali vs. Norton fight. Consensus view was that Norton got screwed.

Norton did receive a big-time screw job, imo.

raylawpc wrote:I don't remember a specific fight, but I remember my Dad letting me stay up with him to watch the "Gillette Friday Night Fights" on TV when I was 5 or 6 years old.

Same here.

I do remember reading the newspaper sports page about Patterson-McNeely the day after it happened.

bennie wrote:It was either Ali-Mildenberger or Ali-Bonavena; I just remember the more talented Ali going through hell against a very brave man.

Well, that would either be Sept, 1966 for the Mildenberger fight or December, 1970 for the Bonavena fight.

In the USA, the Mildenberger fight was shown live on ABC's Wide World of Sports.

yancey wrote:

bennie wrote:It was either Ali-Mildenberger or Ali-Bonavena; I just remember the more talented Ali going through hell against a very brave man.

Well, that would either be Sept, 1966 for the Mildenberger fight or December, 1970 for the Bonavena fight.

In the USA, the Mildenberger fight was shown live on ABC's Wide World of Sports.

How old would you have been in 1966, bennie?????

stracey vs lewis with my dad in the front room eating pie and mash