When you first started watching boxing who were the champions ?

An old Ali, Larry Holmes v Reynaldo Snipes, Big George, Ernie Shavers on ITV Saturday afternoons back in the day, Jim Watt, Charlie Magri, on BBC 1 Saturday nights after the footy, in my late teens Sugar Ray, Duran, Mc guigan early twentys Eubank, Watson, Benn etc. O the good old days lol

Heavy weight - Sonny Liston <-/ Cassius Clay <- Winner

McGuigan

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McGuigan

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Barry's fight with Pedroza, that was the first fight I remember sitting down to watch with the family, both mum and stepdad loved boxing and what a great fight to watch and remember as the first. Back in the day when they fought 15rds rather than the pussy 12 nowadays :)

Mid 80's onwards was when i first got into it, remember Terry Marsh being a big name back then and the man to follow on the british scene. Never lost a bout, such a shame about him really :-X

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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.

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I think we started around the same time. Douglas was heavyweight champ :) for a minute. Sweet Pea was there, Carbajal was big out here as a local boy. JCC was riding the gravy train. Foreman hadn't even come out with his grill yet.

Just came back to fulfill my bet with you anyway, I'm off again have a good one fellas.

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McGuigan

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Barry's fight with Pedroza, that was the first fight I remember sitting down to watch with the family, both mum and stepdad loved boxing and what a great fight to watch and remember as the first. Back in the day when they fought 15rds rather than the pussy 12 nowadays :)

Mid 80's onwards was when i first got into it, remember Terry Marsh being a big name back then and the man to follow on the british scene. Never lost a bout, such a shame about him really :-X

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i cant really remember which fights they were but i watched a few of his fights in the build up to the Pedroza fight, my dad is irish and mcguigan was massive news amongst the paddys

we couldnt watch the cruz (if thats how you spell it) fight coz we were on a plane going on holiday i think, probably for the best

My mother started taking me to the fights at the Olympic Auditorium when I was 8 or 9, which would have been around 1973. She was a Bobby Chacon and Armando Muniz fan, while I was do-or-die with Litrtle Red Lopez. When he won the featherweight title, it was the first time I got excited about a fighter winning a title. The Muniz-Palomino fights were great fights, too. I remember Zamora and Zarate, and feeling bad about liking them because they had each defeated Alberto Davila, who lived a couple blocks away from me. The fight between them, Zarate and Zamora, was a war as well; it wasn't on television so I stayed up late to hear the results on the local news.
Ali was champ then, after Foreman, and I watched his fights (and whatever fights were on) but mostly he fought bums (Richard Dunn comes to mind, and Leon Spinks) and I have never been too impressed by heavyweights in general. Bob Foster was LHW champ then, at the end of his career, but it was only years later that I watched him. Then it was Mathew Franklin (later Saad Muhammad) and Marvin Johnson engaging in epic wars, and Victor Galindez. Marvin Hagler. Duran.
Mostly, though, my memlories focus on the top-flight Mexican fighters, champions and no, that were fighting around the LA area then. And Andy Ganigan and Randy Shields.

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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.

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I think we started around the same time. Douglas was heavyweight champ :) for a minute. Sweet Pea was there, Carbajal was big out here as a local boy. JCC was riding the gravy train. Foreman hadn't even come out with his grill yet.

Just came back to fulfill my bet with you anyway, I'm off again have a good one fellas.

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Bloody hell mate, thought you'd left the planet !!

Good to see your ok and doing well Killer !!

Mike Tyson, Terry Norris, Michael Nunn, Chavez Sr............. stands out.

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Mike Tyson, Terry Norris, Michael Nunn, Chavez Sr............. stands out.

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Ditto McCallum, Hearns, Holyfield at cruiser, Galaxy, Chitlada, Moon

PS although remember McGuigan and Holmes v Ali.

My Dad was a big Roy Jones fan and I remember watching Jones fight Julio Gonzalez on ppv and dominating. Later he dominated John Ruiz, whom neither me or my Dad ever thought would beat Holyfield, let alone produce the most boring trilogy boxing has ever seen.

Roy Jones seemed untouchable, no one stood a chance. Then Tarver got that one in a thousand counter shot in...

Muhammad ALI 1978 vs Leon Spinx. Ali threw the slowest 3 piece combo I ever seen. My pops jumped up yelling, thats the old champ, get em champ. Now I know he was just a big Ali fan and couldnt let the old Ali Dreams go. Ali won that fight. Also the build up to Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran. I thought they saying Roberto the Ram. After that fight I thought Roberto the Ram was invincible. 1978 to 1981 is my intro. Saad Muhammad, Dwight Qawi, Marvin Johnson, Mustafa Muhammad were all big back then. Love that era. Watch boxing for free. Wide World of Sports.

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Muhammad ALI 1978 vs Leon Spinx. Ali threw the slowest 3 piece combo I ever seen. My pops jumped up yelling, thats the old champ, get em champ. Now I know he was just a big Ali fan and couldnt let the old Ali Dreams go. Ali won that fight. Also the build up to Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran. I thought they saying Roberto the Ram. After that fight I thought Roberto the Ram was invincible. 1978 to 1981 is my intro. Saad Muhammad, Dwight Qawi, Marvin Johnson, Mustafa Muhammad were all big back then. Love that era. Watch boxing for free. Wide World of Sports.

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Those were the days when boxing was free, there will not be as many young fans watching now with less and less people watching the sport.

Remember Jorge Paez all over the networks. Vs Espinosa and Dorsey. Nigel Benn destroyed DeWitt....Simon Brown..Carbajal coming up...Williams vs Czyz....Holyfield on Showtime and Tyson walking through Carl Williams.

Maybe its the age but DAMN I miss the late 80's-early 90's of boxing ;D

Not to mention quality matches were everywhere to be found on the tube!! and not U-tube haha

It's hard to say... Big fights always popped up that I was interested in ever since I was 6 (Tyson Bruno I)

Then there was Benn/ Eubank where in Primary school you would argue over who was best and was only allowed to like on of the fighters. (Nothing changes! ;D )

Then there was Lewis, Prince Naseem, More Tyson... They were the fights you stayed up late for round your mates house while trying to sneak a few bears and girls in because the house was empty.

Then there was BBC fighters like Junior Witter & Esham Pickering, who I used to think was the dogs bollocks.

Then I'd finally heard of Roy Jones Jnr after seeing him batter Clinton Woods.

Then Fight Night 2004 came out and I was like '' Who is this fat dude James Toney :confused: ''

After that I gained access to the Web and all hell broke loose.


But yeah 2004 was the year. Antonio Tarver beating Roy Jones Jnr was the first boxing story I read about.