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Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 13:40
by Foggy
Bit of a tough one this for me, I remember the 90s boxing well as I would have been a teenager and have fond memories of Naz, Benn, Eubank, Lewis, even the lower guys like scrap iron Ryan, Thaxton, Piper, Crawford Ashley, robbie regan, spencer Oliver (really just watched the big fights and mainly just British boxing) but then between 2000 and 2010 I really got into boxing watching every weekend, going to shows etc when i was in my twenties.
I know every decade is different and has different talents and memories but I’ll have to go 2000-2010 not because of the fights it’s just personal to me because of how I embraced the sport.
What everyone’s favourite era?
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 13:45
by ironbeard
1970-1985.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 13:48
by bigjack
80's for me
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 13:59
by MasterG
Late 80s to late 90s by far
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 14:17
by giacomino
Same. Maybe 1986 thrown in. 1987 (Leonard vs Hagler) was the year the era jumped the shark for me
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 14:30
by JamesPhilips
Tyson to Hamed
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 14:51
by banjo
70's even though I wasn't born until 83.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 14:56
by ironbeard
giacomino wrote: ↑29 May 2021, 14:17
Same. Maybe 1986 thrown in. 1987 (Leonard vs Hagler) was the year the era jumped the shark for me
Good point.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 15:03
by DrDuke
The 90s. Although the 70s and the 80s are close.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 29 May 2021, 15:09
by tonyevs
I enjoy reading about the guys from the early 20th Century to the early 60's. Ketchel; Johnson; Grebb; Langford; Walker; Graziano; Robinson; Charles; Liston etc.
But from what era I have watched - it's got to be late 80's and 90's .. boxing was on TV back then, and some great British fights. The newly reintroduced British super-featherweight title provided superb action .. for a while nobody could keep hold of it.
So many fantastic small hall shows - and of course the big Friday/Saturday night fights.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 30 May 2021, 06:37
by bennie
Probably 1977 to about 1989, when the WBO made it four world titles in one world and I began to switch off.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 30 May 2021, 09:29
by maverick23
Foggy wrote: ↑29 May 2021, 13:40
Bit of a tough one this for me, I remember the 90s boxing well as I would have been a teenager and have fond memories of Naz, Benn, Eubank, Lewis, even the lower guys like scrap iron Ryan, Thaxton, Piper, Crawford Ashley, robbie regan, spencer Oliver (really just watched the big fights and mainly just British boxing) but then between 2000 and 2010 I really got into boxing watching every weekend, going to shows etc when i was in my twenties.
I know every decade is different and has different talents and memories but I’ll have to go 2000-2010 not because of the fights it’s just personal to me because of how I embraced the sport.
What everyone’s favourite era?
Same and for the same reasons. I started to properly get into boxing in the early 2000s (when my dad got Sky - he wouldn’t until my brother and I had finished exams!). I didn’t go to any shows when I was kid so it was the decade when I first started going to shows and training/fighting a little bit myself when I was at university.
I’ve got signed posters in my office of Moore/Macklin, Hatton/Tszyu and Haye/Maccarinelli and they’re all fights I loved and involved my 3 favourite fighters of that era. I got into a real bad mood straight after the Moore/Rhodes fight.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 30 May 2021, 09:50
by oogiebe
Clearly.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 30 May 2021, 10:06
by emallini
I loved the domestic scene in the 90s and early 2000s. Every Friday night on Sky. So many classic wars.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 07:05
by mickey1975
Mid 80's-mid 90's. Its easier to enjoy when you're naive!
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 10:38
by JC
1719-2021
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 11:48
by Offthehook
MasterG wrote: ↑29 May 2021, 13:59
Late 80s to late 90s by far
This!
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 12:48
by gilgamesh
Well. It's never as good as when you first start watching I guess. My enthusiasm couldn't have been higher than it was from 2002-2005, and with no HBO. I don't see it ever returning there.
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 01 Jun 2021, 20:50
by oogiebe
J-C wrote: ↑01 Jun 2021, 10:381719-2021
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 02 Jun 2021, 20:15
by coghaugen11
80s
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 02 Jun 2021, 20:16
by coghaugen11
Though most of the wider public will say the early to mid 90s
Re: Which Era of boxing is your favourite
Posted: 02 Jun 2021, 22:18
by SticknMove
oogiebe wrote: ↑01 Jun 2021, 20:50
J-C wrote: ↑01 Jun 2021, 10:381719-2021
2021..... Let's hope it doesn't stop there.
