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Come on guys - lets go with this one.

I am sat here getting excited - its been sometime I have got like this before a fight!!!

so here's the next question - name the fights that before they happened you thought f*ck me can't wait for that fight - so much so in the lead up to the fight you put in all the precautions to make sure you did not miss it.

I have got 4 alarms to make sure I don't miss this one - as I say been a long time since that has happened.

obviously back in december.

the tszyu fight as well.

hamed-barrera - been looking forward to that one for ages. i knew hamed was getting licked as well.

tyson-holyfield 1 and 2.

lewis-holyfield 1 and 2.

I remember getting up at 5am to drive to a pub in Dubai to watch Hamed Vs Barrera... only to be sitting there round after round watching it all slip away.
Had huge butterflies before the Kessler fight as the Dane looked so mean and I thought there was a very real chance he'd take Joe down.
Getting serious butterflies now though

Lewis-Tyson

Calzaghe Lacy .... the whole package. People split, the build up with americans claiming Lacy was the second coming of Tyson, then the performance and atmosphere.

DLH vs Mayweather.

Bruno-Lewis

Haye-Macca couldn't wait for that one!

Didn't have to wait long for the finish

In no particular order..

Tyson vs Holyfield

Naseem vs Barerra

Barerra vs Pacman II

Eubank vs Benn ..

hatton vs mayweather

Mayweather v Hatton

David Haye v Enzo Macrinelli

By far,Benn-Eubank 1

Lewis v Rahman 2 (build-up was awesome)
Calzaghe V Kessler
Corrales v Castillo 2 (big letdown)

Nothing beats that feeling before a massive fight :)

Tyson-Holyfield

Benn-McClellan

Lewis-Holyfield

Hamed-Barrera

Tyson V bonecrusher

Bruno v bugner

Benn v watson

benn v eubank

watson v eubank

holmes v cooney

tyson v holmes

tyson v bruno

haye v macca

hagler v hearns

hagler v hamsho 2

hagler v mugabi

hagler v sibson



this could go on...mostly 80's

to be honest all the dela hoya/mayweather/hopkins/jones/toney superfights have been the most unanticipated of all
:(

Lewis v Tyson,

of course come May 24th that will all change.

1) The proposed 1990 fight between Tyson & Holyfied was number 1 for me.

I was so gutted then Tyson got his bullying buttocks spanked, which then blew that one out of the water.

I got excited again, approaching November 1991, when the fight was mooted again, but again, Tyson let me down, this time out of the ring! :x

2) Eubank -v- Benn 1.

3) Leonard -v- Hagler.

4) Jones -v- Toney.

5) Hagler -v- Hearns.

Haye-Mormeck for me, closely followed by Haye-Enzo. I suppose if I'm being honest Audley-Williams I

This thread can mean different things to different people.
I will never forget the build up to Hamed v Robinson in September 2005 because I was there all the way through and milking it.
My first experience ever of the pschological aspects of boxing.
First time I KNEW the result three days before the event.
Naz did him in mentally as well as physically.
It's difficult to put it into words, maybe others in the boxing community know what I mean.
Spud - you've been around. Am I making sense ?

A few:

Holyfield -Tyson 1 & 2

Roy Jones -John Ruiz

Nigel Benn- Gerald Mcclenan.

Johhn Nelson vs Adam Watt (big strong aussie -very dangerous fight)

Johnny Nelson vs Enzo Maccrinelli (it never came off, but I think Johnny would have knocked him out and got the full respect that he deserves).

Joe Calzaghe -Jeff lacy

Joe Calzaghe -Mikkel Kessler (being half welsh/half danish, I was enjoying the build up + calzaghe is a big hero of mine -great atmoshpere on the night -I took my ex-girlfriend down and she really enjoyed it also).

De La Hoya -Mayweather.

Haye-Mormeck, Haye-Mac, Calzaghe-Kessler, Calzaghe-Lacy (really didn't want Joe to lose that one), Pavlik-Taylor, Toney-McCline (compounded by the fact that Toney got injured and the bout called off), but it was Holyfield-Tyson (I was a schoolby at the time, got my mum to wake me up with the results off radio 5 live) probably above all though.

twenty six wrote:This thread can mean different things to different people.
I will never forget the build up to Hamed v Robinson in September 2005 because I was there all the way through and milking it.
My first experience ever of the pschological aspects of boxing.
First time I KNEW the result three days before the event.
Naz did him in mentally as well as physically.
It's difficult to put it into words, maybe others in the boxing community know what I mean.
Spud - you've been around. Am I making sense ?

I know exactly what you mean by this point. I was down there for that event and thought that Naseem mentally obliterated Robinson (offering a winner takes all prize). I have read Geoff Beattie's account of it too (from the psychological standpoint) and it was a fascinating period.