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what was the first fight you remember watching. im not looking for when you got big into boxing just the first time you remember watching it.

mine was barry mcguigan's last fight v jim mcdonnell.

jspain wrote:what was the first fight you remember watching. im not looking for when you got big into boxing just the first time you remember watching it.

mine was barry mcguigan's last fight v jim mcdonnell.

Colin Jones vs Milton McCrory was the first one i remember watching on tv

The first Tyson-Bruno fight.

I was 6 and remember my dad being all excited.

jspain wrote:what was the first fight you remember watching. im not looking for when you got big into boxing just the first time you remember watching it.

mine was barry mcguigan's last fight v jim mcdonnell.

I was in a Darlington pub called 'Lara's' watching that. What a blood tub that was (the pub I mean). I've just checked the date - I was 16, must have been one of my first nights out in the metropolis

I remember watching my dad watching Spinks v Ali I. The old man couldn't believe what he was seeing. I think that's my first memory of boxing on the telly.

shea neary and andy holligan the nark in the park, my first ever live boxing show an is what got me hooked on boxing

Two really strong ones.

Running into the kitchen screaming on a sunday night, after seeing big Tohn Tate get sparked out in the last round by Mike Weaver. I can still remember it vividly.

Ali losing to Spinks and my mum and Auntie crying.

Michael Carruth winning the Gold Medal for Ireland at Barcelona 92. I don't remember much of the fight but I remember my dad and uncle jumping around after the fight finished. Think he bet a Cuban in the final by a few points.

Deno1986 wrote:Michael Carruth winning the Gold Medal for Ireland at Barcelona 92. I don't remember much of the fight but I remember my dad and uncle jumping around after the fight finished. Think he bet a Cuban in the final by a few points.

i was actually staying with friends in dublin when that was on. i remember the ole's at the end. we used to pass michaels parents house every day and there was huge tricolours outside it.

and that and mcguigan's fight were the first 2 fights i watched. 3 years apart. i cant remember that much about either fight really. had no bbc or itv. just 2 irish channels. got sky eventually and bruno - mccall and collins eubank within a week of each other really got me into boxing. those were the days. it helped that collins eubank got massive publicity here.

Bruno Tyson 1. Bits of.

well it was actually me Dad taking us to watch Rocky 2 if that counts??

Ali vs Spinks on 'world of sport'.

I was more into Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks, Rollerball Rocco, Kendo Nagasaki, Alan Kilby etc those days - straight after tiswas!

jspain wrote:

Deno1986 wrote:Michael Carruth winning the Gold Medal for Ireland at Barcelona 92. I don't remember much of the fight but I remember my dad and uncle jumping around after the fight finished. Think he bet a Cuban in the final by a few points.

i was actually staying with friends in dublin when that was on. i remember the ole's at the end. we used to pass michaels parents house every day and there was huge tricolours outside it.

and that and mcguigan's fight were the first 2 fights i watched. 3 years apart. i cant remember that much about either fight really. had no bbc or itv. just 2 irish channels. got sky eventually and bruno - mccall and collins eubank within a week of each other really got me into boxing. those were the days. it helped that collins eubank got massive publicity here.

Collins got me into boxing properly. I got taken to his fight against Neville Brown in Cork by my da, never forget it. We had McCullough around that time aswell, his silver medal at Barcelona was completely overshadowed by Carruths achievements.

Seeing Holmes-Spinks 2 and wondering how Spinks got the decision. If a 10 year old that had never watched a boxing match before could see that he'd won it how couldn't the judges???

jamesmcdonnell wrote:
Ali losing to Spinks and my mum and Auntie crying.

me too mate.....my mum was in tears....probably the first time i saw her cry.

25 yrs later I name my son Cassius.

sure there must be some weird psychological reason for that.....

DEKKER87 wrote:

jamesmcdonnell wrote:
Ali losing to Spinks and my mum and Auntie crying.

me too mate.....my mum was in tears....probably the first time i saw her cry.

25 yrs later I name my son Cassius.

sure there must be some weird psychological reason for that.....

Maybe she was crying with joy because she was a fan of Spinks?! Lucky for your lad you didn't pick up on this or he'd have been called 'Neon Leon'!

mine was going to the ancor house in east london (canning town i think) to see the am's fighting on the club shows there

I got into it as Dennis Andries was training at my School, And dear old Harry Griver, my School was Colvestone in Dalston (Hackney) I started training there, then we moved to Leyton, And had a few bouts there trained by Lex Hunter who was Mo Hopes half Brother, and that was 1971..........

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

Mooresy wrote: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

ohh that was a great night, the circus tent in finsbury park, 4 title fights on,.

Bruno v Tyson in '89 on Sky Television for me.

McGuigan against Danilo Cabrera - seemed so dramatic. And the build up to WItherspoon-Bruno. I remember thinking what a decent guy Witherspoon was, though obviously I wanted Bruno to win at the time.

McGuigan against Danilo Cabrera - seemed so dramatic. And the build up to WItherspoon-Bruno. I remember thinking what a decent guy Witherspoon was, though obviously I wanted Bruno to win at the time.

1southpaw wrote:

Mooresy wrote: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.

Paulie Ayala-Bones Adams I in 2001. I was eleven, it was the first fight I can recall watching, and it was a war. Great introduction to boxing.

it was in a tent on Finnsbury park that fight.