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i was thinking of boxers that had come over here and which ones i would of liked to of seen live and 2 jumped out to me .
johnny tapia fought at the york hall about 10 years ago and i was supposed to go but i didn't make it because of work and tommy hearns was on a naz hamed bill about 15 years ago .hearns wasn't quite the hitman then a bit past his best but i would of loved to of seen him in the flesh.

Hearns showed brief glimpses of the old hitman but it was a poor showing/fight, you didn't miss much.

I never saw Lenny Lewis live, for some reason.

A mate that I'd been to the boxing with offered me a ticket to Benn/McClellan but I couldn't be arsed 'cos I knew what a faff docklands was.

orbtastic wrote:Hearns showed brief glimpses of the old hitman but it was a poor showing/fight, you didn't miss much.

I never saw Lenny Lewis live, for some reason.

A mate that I'd been to the boxing with offered me a ticket to Benn/McClellan but I couldn't be arsed 'cos I knew what a faff docklands was.

i see lennox win the EBU and i wasn't that impressed at the time ,shows i know f@ck all :)

I was trying to think of who I'd missed and couldn't think really. I'd have liked to have seen Morales live, I saw MAB on the Hamed UC in Atlantic City.

I guess if I could pick a fighter in my lifetime, McCallum, he boxed on the UC of Benn/McClellan. I was always a big bodysnatcher fan.

I don't think I ever saw Wharton live, either. Same with Ross Hale, but my car was an unreliable piece of crap back then.

I have seen who I wanted to really. I wanted to see Hearns fight and did in Sheffield, granted he wasnt the Hearns of old.

If anything would have like to have seen Herol Graham and Nigel Benn.

orbtastic wrote:I was trying to think of who I'd missed and couldn't think really. I'd have liked to have seen Morales live, I saw MAB on the Hamed UC in Atlantic City.

I guess if I could pick a fighter in my lifetime, McCallum, he boxed on the UC of Benn/McClellan. I was always a big bodysnatcher fan.

I don't think I ever saw Wharton live, either. Same with Ross Hale, but my car was an unreliable piece of crap back then.

I saw Wharton v Eubank live, the atmos was electric!

I watched it in a pub in York, was kinda sad seeing the heavily pro Wharton crowd slowly have its bubble deflated.

Hearns fought at the MEN. Last fight on the bill if I remember correctly, pretty sparse crowd by that time. Still got my press pass, found it last week.

orbtastic wrote:I watched it in a pub in York, was kinda sad seeing the heavily pro Wharton crowd slowly have its bubble deflated.

Hearns fought at the MEN. Last fight on the bill if I remember correctly, pretty sparse crowd by that time. Still got my press pass, found it last week.

I saw Hearns on the Hamed v Ingle undercard at Sheffield. Also back to the Wharton fight, its funny how you see fights differently live. I had Wharton the winner.

mimmy123 wrote:

orbtastic wrote:I watched it in a pub in York, was kinda sad seeing the heavily pro Wharton crowd slowly have its bubble deflated.

Hearns fought at the MEN. Last fight on the bill if I remember correctly, pretty sparse crowd by that time. Still got my press pass, found it last week.

I saw Hearns on the Hamed v Ingle undercard at Sheffield. Also back to the Wharton fight, its funny how you see fights differently live. I had Wharton the winner.

It was at the MEN mate.

What the hell were you smoking? I think I gave Wharton a couple of rounds at best, he never stopped trying (particularly in the last third) but was outclassed and had that horrible eye injury. It wasn't remotely competitive, unlike the Benn fight.

orbtastic wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:

orbtastic wrote:I watched it in a pub in York, was kinda sad seeing the heavily pro Wharton crowd slowly have its bubble deflated.

Hearns fought at the MEN. Last fight on the bill if I remember correctly, pretty sparse crowd by that time. Still got my press pass, found it last week.

I saw Hearns on the Hamed v Ingle undercard at Sheffield. Also back to the Wharton fight, its funny how you see fights differently live. I had Wharton the winner.

It was at the MEN mate.

What the hell were you smoking? I think I gave Wharton a couple of rounds at best, he never stopped trying (particularly in the last third) but was outclassed and had that horrible eye injury. It wasn't remotely competitive, unlike the Benn fight.

You are right it was The Big Reunion I saw in Sheffield

Would have loved to have seen hagler live

forcefraser wrote:Would have loved to have seen hagler live

Some of the Amercian boxers I would like to have seen are unrealistic because of the logistics of getting there, getting tickets & hoping it doesnt fall through & losing a shit load of money.
Over here definitely Tapia & probably Benn.

Dave Charnley!

mimmy123 wrote:I have seen who I wanted to really. I wanted to see Hearns fight and did in Sheffield, granted he wasnt the Hearns of old.

If anything would have like to have seen Herol Graham and Nigel Benn.

I've seen Benn and Graham. Herol getting hammered by Frank Grant and Benn beating Henry.

I guess Ali is an obvious one but also Frazier, Arguello. I guess I just wish I'd been around and able to go to fights back then.

Actually there is one boxer that I thought would only fight once in the UK so I went to see the fight and that was George Foreman in London 1990.

Pretty crappy fight and crappy undercard too, atmosphere wasnt that great but loads of stars there.

Never got to see Naz live. I wish I was I was there for the Kelly fight.

Interesting thread. I hadn't thought if how lucky I was until I thought about it. I saw the following live:
Lennox Lewis
Nigel Benn
Naseem Hamed
Chris Eubank
Joe Calzaghe
Ricky Hatton
Johnny Tapia
Steve Collins
Vitali Klitschko
Paul Ingle
Herol Graham

None of them were in the big, big fights but still great to see them.
Fighters from my era I wish I'd seen:

Mike Tyson (obviously)
George Foreman
Roberto Duran

TopGun wrote:Never got to see Naz live. I wish I was I was there for the Kelly fight.

Naz v Ingle was a great night. Atmosphere was bloody good too

mimmy123 wrote:

TopGun wrote:Never got to see Naz live. I wish I was I was there for the Kelly fight.

Naz v Ingle was a great night. Atmosphere was bloody good too

I saw Naz blast out Billy Hardy. To be honest it was both an anti climax and also I felt for Billy, a proud warrior who unluckily got caught early and somewhat humiliated

Oh I Also saw David Haye - Tony Booth....

mimmy123 wrote:

TopGun wrote:Never got to see Naz live. I wish I was I was there for the Kelly fight.

Naz v Ingle was a great night. Atmosphere was bloody good too

i see naz vs medina in dublin ,i went with my dad to see the hurling final and naz happened to be fighting the same weekend .
not his best show but a great weekend

Daniel Mendoza.

i forgot that tyson came over twice