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Hey guys,

What is your first boxing memory? Like, the very first time boxing was introduced into your life. Not when you fell in love with the sport, but what piqued your interest in it.

My first memory was seeing a Sports Illustrated magazine of the fight between Tyson v Frazier and that now gloriously infamous picture of Iron Mike landing that huge uppercut that nearly made Frazier a vegetable. That picture would forever be etched in my mind. I was at a doctor's office and they had the magazines spread out on the table, I picked up the SI and there was Tyson nearly killing Frazier. I was like... WOW... I was just struck by the photo.
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The second thing I remember was when Leonard fought Hagler. I remember the fight build up and the aftermath... I even remember the ring walks. lol... What a time to be alive. Hagler was build up to be this destroyer of worlds and Leonard was built up as what we would call now the "A side" or in Wrasslin', the "babyface." lolol....

What are your first memories?
My first ever boxing memory was seeing a sports magazine of some kind and the front cover had Sugar Ray Robinson on.
He’d probably retired about 15 years earlier and the magazine was probably deciding ATG Sportsmen or something. I had no clue who he was , but I was mad about any sport.
And then , probably like a lot of people , my earliest memories are of Muhammad Ali.
But I also remember seeing the Frazier v Foreman fight on Saturday Lunchtime on Grandstand probably a week after it happened. I couldn’t believe it. This guy just beat the shit out of the World Champion, who had previously beaten Ali.
And I will never forget , perhaps the 4th knockdown when Foreman actually punched Frazier off his feet.