Thread: When you first started watching boxing who were the champions ?

I've been watching boxing since about 1999/2000. A lot has changed since then, but some fighters are still around. Best I can remember these were the champions back then:

Lightweight: Stevie Johnson/Jose Luis Castillo ?
Welterweight: Oscar De La Hoya/Tito Trinidad
Middleweight: Bernard Hopkins/William Joppy
Light Heavyweight: Roy Jones Jr.
Heavyweight: Evander Holyfield/ Lennox Lewis

For the sake of memory, as I was only 12 back then, I stuck with just the major weight classes of boxing.

The first fight I remember watching was when Steve Collins beat Chris Eubank in 95, to win the Super Middleweight title.

I was ten.

Jack Johnson was Heavyweight champion of the world....alot has changed since...them were the days


Job Biscuit (can't reach me remote)!!!


eh eh!!!

Originally Posted by Otley

Jack Johnson was Heavyweight champion of the world....alot has changed since...them were the days


Job Biscuit (can't reach me remote)!!!


eh eh!!!

I knew you was old mate but not that old.

Originally Posted by boxingbantz

Originally Posted by Otley

Jack Johnson was Heavyweight champion of the world....alot has changed since...them were the days


Job Biscuit (can't reach me remote)!!!


eh eh!!!

I knew you was old mate but not that old.

further proves the fact that he's senile

Hagler Leonard and Hearns in the early 80's..

Well this thread has stimulated conversation and proved just as insightful as I had hoped...

From the year where I started understanding boxing more was around 88/89 and that's because of my uncles. The 2 names I remember most and 2 names whom I memorized were Jorge Paez & JCC.

I started watching boxing more and more around 91/92 so I the champs then were;
The Canizales Bros, Eubank, Nunn, 'Hawk' Jackson, Evander, Norris, Pernell, Esparragoza & Villasana to name some...

Originally Posted by Hulk

Well this thread has stimulated conversation and proved just as insightful as I had hoped...

It says a lot about you...

Originally Posted by CutMeMick

Originally Posted by Hulk

Well this thread has stimulated conversation and proved just as insightful as I had hoped...

It says a lot about you...

Yes after years of backing Ricardo Mayorga and James Toney, my opinion is held in very high regards on here...

Roberto Duran.....late mid to late 70's and early 80's

Larry Holmes destroying guys like Alfredo Evangelista and Gerry Cooney.

Mike Tyson was the unbeatable monster, everywhere in the media. The guys like Hagler Hearns SRL and Duran were at the twilights of their careers. Newer guys like Meldrick Taylor and Terry Norris were coming up, ODLH too. I liked heavyweights more then because you had Riddick Bowe, Lennox Lewis, Tommy Morrison, Razor Ruddock(I actually wanted him to beat Tyson)Holyfield, Moorer , but my favorite was Big George on his comeback. He was knocking people out and it looked like he was in slow motion doing it. Pernell Whitaker was one of the top p4p guys.

Tyson vs Bruno 1 was my first boxing match I watch. So 1989 I started watching it but really didn't love it until around 1992 when I saw Holyfield-Bowe 1. You know when the HW division didn't suck.

Smokin Joe Frazier was champ and I was in 1st grade. Still remember hearing about that fight all the way home from school--guess it was a monday---, things were still buzzing from the previous Im guessing saturday night at MSG.

dont remember any other weight class champs back then. was only 7 years old.