Thread: Favourite moment in boxing

As fans, there has been and always will continue to be moments when we realise we are watching something special. As we're all different and each have our favourites, I thought it'd be interesting to ask you guys if there has been a moment in boxing that defines why you love the sport.

Great Topic Bz!
The first moment wher the hairs stood on the back of my neck was when i first saw Ali KO foreman. I felt as if the fight was live and was so emotionally involved, to this day i watch that fight, know what's coming yet i'm still captivated by every second in evry round, as if upon rewatching it Ali could get knocked out.

Another was Sugar Ray Leonard putting Benitez down the first time with his jab. It was the first entire Leonard fight i saw and i remeber how delicate he looked, yet his accuracy, sppeed and attitude had my jaw on the floor with his supremacy.

guess it has to be the moment I got into boxing and that was seeing the over-hyped sensationalist "I'm Back" TV advert for Leanord v Hagler fight

After that advert I became intrigued by the sport - so guess that's the moment I have to pick


strange eh

A friend of mine showed me a tape of Hagler Hearns, and ive never looked back i could feel the excitement as if it was live.

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Great Topic Bz!
The first moment wher the hairs stood on the back of my neck was when i first saw Ali KO foreman. I felt as if the fight was live and was so emotionally involved, to this day i watch that fight, know what's coming yet i'm still captivated by every second in evry round, as if upon rewatching it Ali could get knocked out.

Another was Sugar Ray Leonard putting Benitez down the first time with his jab. It was the first entire Leonard fight i saw and i remeber how delicate he looked, yet his accuracy, sppeed and attitude had my jaw on the floor with his supremacy.

CC on that.  I remember somthing similar happening to me...   

Actually come to think of it...  The first time I saw the Marciano Walcott!

Yeah Marciano Walcott must have been quite the talking point back in the day! It weas an entertaining fight even without the savage ending!

I have many moments that I've loved, but Round 10 of Corrales-Castillo was the best moment for me and is the first one I show my friends as a clear definition of why I love the sport.

Two moments for me.

1. Me and my dad watching a late night promo for the Tyson - Berbick fight. My dad who used to be the kind of guy who would listen to fights on the radio and would watch local boxing matches had completely given up on boxing by this stage. After nearly passing out at how good Tyson looked in the promo we both decided to get up early in the morning to watch the fight. We werent the only ones either, when I went back to school it seemed like everyone in the playground was talking about the fight and we were only about 9 or 10 at the time.

2. Chris Eubank v Nigel Benn build up to the first fight. Again, watching it with my dad. Benn was a big name at the time and Eubank was barely known, but we saw this young upstart talking like an effeminite member of the royal family. Saying how barbaric boxing was and that Benn was just a brawler and he could never lose to a brawler.
Me and my dad decided we had to see if he could back up his patter, and its a good job we did, as we witnessed one of the UKs best ever fights and without a doubt the Uks most popular and intriguing boxing rivalry. It was like The Beatles v The Rolling Stones of boxing.

It may suprise people from outside the UK but shortly every Eubank fight was a massive event. Even people who didnt like boxing wanted to see him. Granted, many wanted to see him lose but when Eubank came into the ring it was a real adrenaline rush and Eubank really got people going in a way that I doubt will happen again.

Oh also i have to mention at eight years old i cried my eyes out seeing the decision after Ali-Frazier 1...Embarassing That.

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Oh also i have to mention at eight years old i cried my eyes out seeing the decision after Ali-Frazier 1...Embarassing That.

That is my favourite golden oldie moment. I actually started typing that one but decided Corrales-Castillo was my ultimate.

Also Lewis handing out a one sided beating to Tyson, and the first Tyson-Holyfield fight go on the list.

Gettin to watch Marciano vs Walcott....Marciano started my interest in boxing.Going from "Marciano is the best that ever lived". To gradually learning about the brown bomber and Joe walcott and then thirsting for real knowledge.Eventually becoming a proper fan and gaining a real knowledge of the "sport".Not to mention the political ties boxing has in its history.which funnily is another of my great interests, politics.

But like i say the Brockton Blockbuster started it for me.Almost idolised Marciano at one point...and when someone gave me the full fight on DVD with commentary. I got to watch the man himself in action.

Mine has to be Hatton beating Tszyu and Mosley beating De Le Hoya in there first fight.

Barrera Morales 1

Benn-Eubank I. Harry Mullan said it started the modern era of boxing and I agree. The whole build-up was amazing, this smug-as-can-be black guy pretending to have a silver spoon in his mouth and denouncing Benn as 'intolerable', 'primitive puncher', 'shallow-minded puncher', 'fraudster' etc and boxing as 'barbaric', 'grotethque blood-thport', and 'a mugs game'. It really was a 'boom', Eubank just came from nowhere and it seemed everyone wanted to see Nigel Benn knock this arrogant fuckers block clean off

What was so intriguing was Eubank claimed to be a boxing master and a grand chess player in the ring etc, yet boxing insiders all thought he was crap. Nobody had really seen Eubank fight yet, so it was interesting to say the least.

The fight itself quickly became a see-saw epic, it was a Sunday night and I was just glued to the screen.

Eubank won everyone over with his post-fight speech and proposal, as if he hadn't (begrudgingly) with his fighting heart in the match itself.


Of course, by the time of the Watson 'robbery' he was hated even more than he was before the Benn fight, but in the end he won everyone over for good when his splattered eye socket from the Thompson cruiserweight fight was splashed over all the papers, so this whole thing was atleast a taster for things to come.

Benn-Eubank I - you'll never beat it!

The actual 'moment' I suppose was the face-off before the fight, because you just knew nobody could be as confidence as Eubank was appearing without KNOWING he was going to do as he said and make Benn look silly and cane him (because he wouldn't be able to live with the embarassment otherwise, surely?), while Benn - the most exciting fighter and hardest puncher ever - was really giving off a calm-before-the-storm thing and you could just tell that he really did really, really, really want to hurt this guy

It was something intangible before the bell had rang

Another 'moment', perhaps more of a confirmation, was just after the bell rang to end the second round