How much do you REALLY know about boxing???

[Kel]

Loved boxing since watching it regular on 'The Big Fight Live' on ITV when I was about 10 or 11. Watching Eubank, Naz and Benn with my pot noodle and single can of beer my dad would give me.

I boxed for 3 years in my teens without really watching much boxing as it all started to go PPV and what not and my tight arsed parents were content with 5 terrestrial channels.

Once I got a job at 17 I started buying PPV's on cable and once again got massively into it.

Got the internet installed a year or so after we got cable and that was it. I was a reader of this place quite a while before I joined and I reckon about 60% of all I know about boxing came from Saddo's.

A MASSIVE thrill for me was watching all the ODLH,Vargas,Mosley,Trinidad,Mayorga fights I'd missed over the years which I got thanks to this site. Catching up on boxing and having a place to access it all gave me the buzz back in a big way.

Anyway what was the question? Jotting down my fucking life story here.........Yeah I think I know quite a lot but it's mainly due to this place. There is no better way to learn stuff other than talking to other fans.

[Nameless]

I went to professional matches 5-6 times, mainly to see Joachim Alcine, Eric Lucas, Leonard Dorin and Bute fighting, every fights were in Montreal and one in Leipzig Germany when Lucas lost against Beyer. As for my general knowledge of boxing, I would rate myself in the middle of those following it very often, know a decent bit, have a load to learn, this place is perfect to discuss, put out my arguments, correct them when peoples give me facts I didn't consider or didn't know about and improve my culture on something I do really enjoy.

[Kirkland Laing]

The first fight I saw on TV was a John Conteh fight. I just went to boxrec to try and work out which one but can't, it was around 1975 and I always watched any boxing on the three UK TV channels after that. The first fight I saw live was a Billy Hardy fight in Sunderland when I was 17 or 18. I got right into boxing when I was eight or so and trained for a while but had to stop due to family problems. Saw almost all the big UK fights 1991-95 live and a lot of the big American ones 95-2000, but 1991-2006ish I paid no real attention to the sport other than going to fights or watching them on telly so there's a lot I missed. I've got to say that even over the past few years when I have been paying attention I'll forget fights. Fights or fighters get mentioned on here and I'll think who the hell is that, is he any good and I'll check boxrec and think oh yeah, I've seen his last two fights.