Who Was Your Boxing Heros When Growing Up ??

[Tysonbruno]

Are you looking for the word were

That is indeed a word 6 year olds learn as a second language

Appreciate you making me look like a fool :P

Im just playing

[Gandalf]

Are you looking for the word were

That is indeed a word 6 year olds learn as a second language

Appreciate you making me look like a fool :P

Actually, sorry if Ive sounded rude. You know im an English teacher and where I live is later than where you are. You are cool, Ice Cold...just watch that grammar! You are from England and grammar is secondary but you must remember the rules..

[ICB]

Are you looking for the word were

That is indeed a word 6 year olds learn as a second language

Appreciate you making me look like a fool :P

Actually, sorry if Ive sounded rude. You know im an English teacher and where I live is later than where you are. You are cool, Ice Cold...just watch that grammar! You are from England and grammar is secondary but you must remember the rules..

Actually i didn't know you was English teacher and no harm done just can't believe i done it lol but thanks anyway Mr Miles

[Wacko3205]

Sugar Ray Robinson & ofcourse Ali when I was young. Coming up through the years it was Hopkins (aka: the Terror), RJJ, Winky, Oscar, Lewis, Floyd, & Calzaghe.

Now...still Hopkins, Floyd, & Winky.

[CutMeMick]

lol Mick cc

CC#32 Monkey....

[JT Rock]

Sugar Ray Leonard

Mike Tyson

George Foreman(During his Comeback)


Evander Holyfield

Jeff Lacy

Floyd Mayweather jr

Leonard when I 1st started following Boxing, then Mike Tyson, Followed By George Foreman and then Evander Holyfield ever since.....

Worst fight for me to watch and root for was Foreman vs Holyfield, I felt like I was betraying one by picking the other... So I went with big George since it was an incredible story and the man had heart, he had the strength, confidence and steadiness of a father figure when he spoke you listened, Call his comeback a PR stunt, call it a feel good story but George won me over and finally shut up all the detractors by KO'ING Michael Moorer... Glad he was able to get a measure recompense for what happened on October 30th 1974 in Zaire

[Trainer Monkey]

Sugar Ray Leonard

Mike Tyson

George Foreman(During his Comeback)


Evander Holyfield

Leonard when I 1st started following Boxing, then Mike Tyson, Followed By George Foreman and then Evander Holyfield ever since.....

Worst fight for me to watch and root for was Foreman vs Holyfield, I felt like I was betraying one by picking the other... So I went with big George since it was an incredible story and the man had heart, he had the strength, confidence and steadiness of a father figure when he spoke you listened, Call his comeback a PR stunt, call it a feel good story but George won me over and finally shut up all the detractors by KO'ING Michael Moorer... Glad he was able to get a measure recompense for what happened on October 30th 1974 in Zaire

I started taking Foremans comeback seriously during the Guido Trane fight,for 5 rounds he just abused the guy,when they finally stopped the fight in 5th Trane face was reduced to wreckage,everything that could be broken,or cut,was.
Guy went from Italian Heavyeight Champ to retired in 5 short rounds
And that was just a tune up bought for Big George

[Trainer Monkey]

Here ya go JT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xkg9EMFUE

[JT Rock]

Here ya go JT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xkg9EMFUE

  #33   Nice One 

[Sugar_Shaw]

ODLH
Tyson
RJJ
Mosley

[Tysonbruno]

Foreman was an animal when he was young he once said he did'nt train to beat a man he trained to kill him

[diamonddavestafford]

I was watching boxing ever since I can remember...influenced by my dad mainly because he was big boxing fan---huge Duran fan. So for the first years of my life we are watching all mainly Duran and he is having me root for Duran. As i got to be about four or five I can remember really starting to think for myself, when, during the Duran-Leonard fight, I decided that I liked the other boxer better. I think it was at the end when they both raised their hands and Duran grabbed Leonards and pulled them down. Or maybe because Duran just seemed so mean and Leonard was always smiling and that garners more trust and/or favoritism from a kid. Anyway, it was the first great sports rivalry we had between father and son.

So that little jog down memory lane revisited, my favorite fighters growing up were...


Roberto Duran
Sugar Ray Leonard
"Iron" Mike Tyson (i know...i know...some might say a poor choice for a hero, but growing up, who didnt have him here?)
"The Real Deal" Evander Holyfield
Tommy "The Duke" Morrison
Muhammad Ali
"The Professor" Azumah Nelson
Roy Jones Jr.
Lennox Lewis
James "Lights Out" Toney
Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins
Pernell "Sweet Pea" Whitaker
Julio Cesar Chavez
George Foreman (2nd comeback)

[luvfightgame]

Another one for me was Boom Boom Mancini,wasnt the most technically proficient fighter,wasnt the fastest fighter,but he had the absolute heart of a lion
Also adored Larry Holmes,I might have been the only person not named Larry Holmes,that thought he was going to kick Cooney's butt.Hated the Ali/Holmes fight,because it was one of my idols at the end of his road,and a burgeoning new one
Everybody knew what the result of that one was going to be,and I for one didnt want to see it

You beat me to the punch!! I was seriously thinking of both of them.

Have to add in

Hagler
SRL
and of course Tyson.

I remember thinking I wished my name was Mike cause the big 3 at the time was Mike Tyson, Mike Jordan, and Mike Jackson. They were on the top of their respective professions at the same time. I'm talking about Michael Jackson when he was "Bad". Not the white girl.

[Trainer Monkey]

Another one for me was Boom Boom Mancini,wasnt the most technically proficient fighter,wasnt the fastest fighter,but he had the absolute heart of a lion
Also adored Larry Holmes,I might have been the only person not named Larry Holmes,that thought he was going to kick Cooney's butt.Hated the Ali/Holmes fight,because it was one of my idols at the end of his road,and a burgeoning new one
Everybody knew what the result of that one was going to be,and I for one didnt want to see it

You beat me to the punch!! I was seriously thinking of both of them.

Have to add in

Hagler
SRL
and of course Tyson.

I remember thinking I wished my name was Mike cause the big 3 at the time was Mike Tyson, Mike Jordan, and Mike Jackson. They were on the top of their respective professions at the same time. I'm talking about Michael Jackson when he was "Bad". Not the white girl.

Ever hear the Warren Zevon song about Boom Boom?
Heres the lyrics,its one of my faves
Boom Boom Mancini
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

>From Youngstown, Ohio, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini
A lightweight contender, like father like son
He fought for the title with Frias in Vegas
And he put him away in round number one

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

When Alexis Arguello gave Boom Boom a beating
Seven weeks later he was back in the ring
Some have the speed and the right combinations
If you can't take the punches, it don't mean a thing

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

When they asked him who was responsible
For the death of Du Koo Kim
He said, "Some one should have stopped the fight
And told me it was him."
They made hypocrite judgements after the fact
But the name of the game is be hit and hit back

Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon
Hurry home early hurry on home
Boom Boom Mancini's fighting Bobby Chacon

[amat]

Pernell Whitaker is my favorite fighter of all time, and my childhood hero. I started school in Norfolk, Virginia at the height of Sweet Pea's popularity, around 94. Honestly, he was my first favorite sports team. And he was a fighter. Ingleside, Elementary One of the best moments of my early childhood was him coming to my school when I was in kindergarten. Absolutely insane in there. Just the feeling of the excitement, I've never seen so much excitement at a school. Kindergarten and I can still remember it like it was yestarday. When he came on stage, I was in front because it was the lower grades in front, and it was the wierdest thing seeing a proper, refined school teacher old enough to be my mom SCREAMING for Whitaker. He was wearing a Norfolk Tides baseball jersey and black shorts and the mayor was there. He took a picture with us kindergartners and it was on the front page of the newspaper. My mom had it until a flood took everything