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Not sure if that subject describes what I am asking :?? but I am going to bed after I send this baby off. Do you guys ever forget when a moment happened in your life and use boxing as a timeline to remember exactly when. I was just thinking of when I use to travel for my teleco company and which countries I visited and when I visited them and I couldn't decide what year it was and I was trying for the life of me remember what was going on in the world at the time I left but everything was hazy like who won the series, the superbowl, current events etc. but I friggin' remember I left the day of the young heavyweights card with Mesi and Williamson in the main event and came back a few days before Vassily Jirov and Mesi squared off. Same thing with other events when I dated such and such for the first time happened on the night of McClellan - Benn. I could care less about the fight and when I look back and can't believe it I must've been in LaLa land back then. Just a whole bunch more I could name. Ah was just wondering if anyone did the same? Uggg it's runnin through the veins maaan. :)

John

Effected my life?

To paraphrase Jasper Woodcock: "Geez, Farley, its just a game. . ."

Dunno abouta fight effecting my life, but there's been a few that changed my out look on the game and either a gain of respect or loss of respect for it. Holyfield-Valuev is one, where there was no respect won but lost. Holyfield shouldn't have fought Valuev anyways, he didn't deserve the shot, but even more disturbing is that he won, but was robbed blind. It was one of those nights where I hated to be a fan or even associated with boxing.

Tyson-Lewis was another. For the old timers, they have Marciano knocking out Joe Louis. For me, I have Tyson getting smashed to pieces by Lewis, and then going straight down into "bolivian", losing to Williams and later to McBride, only to end his career in Youngstown, Ohio in an exhibition "world tour" that ended as soon as it started against former sparring partner Corey Sanders.

I remember as a kid when Douglas won against Tyson, and in Columbus, Ohio there was a ticker tape parade. Considering he was labeled a 42-1 underdog, with no chance of winning, it effected at least my logic of thinking that ANYBODY can become what they want in life, as long as they try hard enough. Later on, Foreman would beat Moorer just a few days before his 46th birthday, and that just made the thought even more solidified.

There's many more, sure, I could go on. But there has not ever been a single fight that ever changed my life, not unless you want to call Rocky Balboa going up against Apollo Creed being a fight, then yeah, that one did, as it put into my head what I wanted to be when I grew up.

awesome, bad subject title on my part it was late last night :)

Because of the outcome of a couple key boxing matches, I am now in counseling.

they didn't change my life, but often if i can't remember a specific time i check the record book as a clue. for instance i delqayed my brother's wedding onthe aftenoon george foreman fought those five guys so ow when i want to find his wedding anniversary (my brother's..not george) i just look that up.

I remember watching the basilio-de marco rematch when my wife was in the polio ward and the staff and i pulled the group tv around (the other patients were mostly asleep) by the iron lung.

lots of others...these two just the most vivid...one a happy memory...the other a chilling one.

I wouldn't say it is a big play on day to day life at all.

But dates and times are a little hard to forget.
Why wouldn't I remember ?

Whitaker v Chavez
Hagler v Hearns

It's not to say I will remember the exact day,but yeah I will have a rough idea of the time.

Boxing is my major sport.
I know roughly when the superbowl is.
I know roughly when the FA Cup Final is.
I know roughly know when the Inauguration is.

Why wouldn't I know when bigger fights of the past took place ?

They were memorable,at least in my eyes.

When the great Roberto Duran quit against the great Sugar Ray Leonard, it still has an painful effect in my life....I watch that fight over and over again, and still, the pain is there.

Another painful memory is when the great Muhammad Ali lost to the great Larry Holmes...That year 1980, was not a great year for me in boxing, I guess.

Michael Moorer was a big part of my life when I was a kid. My trainer at the time, Jimmy Archer, asked me what the fornicate did I like that guy for, he's a pretender! I was shocked and started trying to really find out what made me dig the guy as a fighter. Then a few weeks later I told him I should be southpaw and I changed. It was a big improvement in my style and I felt at home.

I remember the Ring headlines for the fight with Cooper called 'Armageddon' with that sick picture. I was following Moorer before that but that bout really made me a believer. I wouldn't miss one of his fights. One of the first fights I really taped in SP mode was him and Bonecrusher. I tell people that one of the best days and worst days of my life was Moorer winning the title in Apr against Holyfield and then losing it against Foreman by KO a few months later. I was literally sitting at the TV with my mouth open in shock while my uncles aid at the time was watching with us. She was sayin' "Can't mess with Big George, noooo sir eyyyy!" Put Muhammad in there now and maybe!" I was just in total shock pleading with Michael to get up and hold on the last 2 1/2 rounds. I cut out the daily news article the next day and hung it up and used it as a motivational prop to get me back on the right track. HHAAH it really fuked with me. lol

When Jeremy Williams lost to Larry Donald my brother and I did like 80 laps around the football field in the rain we both wanted to be champions and that was a real letdown but hey hahah funny now that I think about it.

Let's see fights I remember watching in the basement with my dad and brother

Whitaker vs. Poli Diaz

oooh the big bet me with Julian the Hawk and my brother with the G-man. That prelude to the fight was just crazy with the olden film look and the bombs droppin' Oh I loved it. Then the fight started and time stood still.

Say Whitaker vs. Chavez at my uncles house - Just thinking at the time what an injustice!!! felt ripped!!!

Walking upstairs to my room at the end of the 7th to be alone while Tyson fought Douglas switching the knob of my cable box to 14 and watchin' the fight on HBO. The fight was over, Tyson the defeatist, It seemed to a 12 year old kid the world ended! How did that happen?!? I actually heard horns beeping people screaming out the doors in a suburban area. WOW! My brother walked up and first words were "did you see that?!" I was just like "yea..." looking at the screen. Woah hahah

My father, brother and I were big fans of Whitaker I remember at one of my brothers fights my father was talkin' and happened to notice Sweetpea at the bar and just -- timeless. What a memory. Another memory was seeing my father talk with Joe Fraziar it was funny this story they were both talking about. Joe kept calling him over and my father kept calling him out. I don't know all the details but it was in the 60's or something I am going to have to ask him tomorrow when I stop over.