Who Was Your Boxing Heros When Growing Up ??

Shea Neary, my dad was in the army with him and I went to see him a few times at everton park when I was 5-6.

I didn't really start watching boxing til i was 17 and the first real fight i ever watched was ali-chuvalo 1 on espn classic. After that, the rest is history.

Archie Moore, Floyd Patterson and later on, Emile Griffith.

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Originally Posted by ICE COLD BOXING

Mine was Holyfield because he beat the bully Tyson thats when i first started to watch boxing and that fight got me into boxing so Holyfield was my hero when growing up and also Barrera he was one of my favorites and when he beat Naz that made me even bigger fan Roy Jones aswell because he had amazing skills it was like wow when i watched him because i had never seen anything like it before i didn't really have anymore boxing heros at that time because i didn't know too much about boxing then what about you ??

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Joe Louis,Marven Hagler,Rocky Marciano and Holyfield

Besides my boxing smart uncle who shares the same name as my father and I...

Jake LaMotta. The movie Raging Bull was out and I thought the nickname sounded tuff. I actually didn't have a favorite fighter until I got older. It was the sport itself that I loved at first. I remember watching my moms brothers boxing and thinking it was sooo damn cool.

My uncle would force the gloves on you and make you spar with him. Young or old, male or female. It did not matter.

I would cry and tell my mom when he hit me.