What boxer got you into boxing?

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What boxer got you into boxing?

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Evander for me around 95ish.
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Roy Levesta Jones Jr.

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Naseem Hamed although i was brought up watching Benn and Eubank. When i started watching Naz in the early 90s my dad started getting me all the boxing magazines and then i joined the gym and went from there. I'm 35 and i remember as a youngster everyone in the playground were all talking about Naz...
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Loved RJJ. Wish he retired after Ruiz.
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I enjoyed boxing since I was a little kid (early 1980's), but Vinny Pazienza vs Greg Haugen took it to another level, Their first fight in Providence Rhode Island was like a straight up Rocky 4 war.

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McGuigan - he was massive in Belfast when I was a lad. Exciting as eff too.
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Mine is Arturo Gatti.
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Leonard. Specifically the Duran 2 fight.

Watched it with my dad. I’d never seen anything like it.

Bomber Graham made me want to box...... such skill
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Ali, Frazier, Foreman................
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Ali and the people he fought. And then strangely I became a big fan of Foreman after he lost in Zaire, not before.
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Stuarty wrote: 09 Nov 2019, 10:50 Loved RJJ. Wish he retired after Ruiz.
Or even after Tarver 1.. .. Would have been 49-1 with the 1 DQ loss..

Had he just left it there... Imagine.
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One more for Ali and his biggest opponents.
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My father got me into boxing and it was watching Saad Muhammad V John Conteh that got me hooked.

I would say watching Mark Kaylor was what kept me hooked.
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...I grew up watching amateur boxers and olympic champs from the Soviet Union Vyacheslav Lemeshev and Boris Kuznetsov..
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"When We Where Kings"

Ali's Charisma was magical!
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Ali, rocky Balboa and the 76 Olympic team. By the time I was 8 I was hooked and knew all the big fighters, got the mags, etc.. first favorite was Howard Davis.
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Re: What boxer got you into boxing?

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Muhammad Ali.
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Naseem hamed
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Benn v Watson in 89 got me instantly hooked, I gave up Martial Arts and had my first amateur bout a few months later🥊
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Ali. Believe it or not, during his banishment. Liked boxing before, but he really made me a huge fan. Big fan of the man.
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Logan Paul
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EduardosFist wrote: 09 Nov 2019, 15:31 Logan Paul
:lol:
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Yes - very good.

Dave "Boy" McAuley.
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David Tua
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