Quote Originally Posted by Canvasback
Yep, 55, watched Cavalcade of Sports boxing with my dad when I was a kid. I guess that's how I got hooked. Funny thing about my dad's generation. He was never really into sports. I don't recall him following baseball or football too much, but like a lot of his generation he knew about the popular fighters of the day.
My father was a boxing fan. I remember being a very young child and seeing him watch the old boxing shows on tv sponsored by Gillette. It was in black and white, and he watched fighters such as Fullmer, Sugar Ray Robinson, Ezzard Charles, etc. His favorite fighter was Ezzard Charles. I preferred Marciano, but he would have rather that I appreciated more of a boxer, a thinking fighter. Children always like punchers more than boxers because punching is easier to understand!