When you first started watching boxing who were the champions ?

[CutMeMick]

Well this thread has stimulated conversation and proved just as insightful as I had hoped...

It says a lot about you...

[Hulk]

Well this thread has stimulated conversation and proved just as insightful as I had hoped...

It says a lot about you...

Yes after years of backing Ricardo Mayorga and James Toney, my opinion is held in very high regards on here...

[fan johnny]

Roberto Duran.....late mid to late 70's and early 80's

[miron_lang]

Larry Holmes destroying guys like Alfredo Evangelista and Gerry Cooney.

[No Contest]

Mike Tyson was the unbeatable monster, everywhere in the media. The guys like Hagler Hearns SRL and Duran were at the twilights of their careers. Newer guys like Meldrick Taylor and Terry Norris were coming up, ODLH too. I liked heavyweights more then because you had Riddick Bowe, Lennox Lewis, Tommy Morrison, Razor Ruddock(I actually wanted him to beat Tyson)Holyfield, Moorer , but my favorite was Big George on his comeback. He was knocking people out and it looked like he was in slow motion doing it. Pernell Whitaker was one of the top p4p guys.

[generalbulldog]

Tyson vs Bruno 1 was my first boxing match I watch. So 1989 I started watching it but really didn't love it until around 1992 when I saw Holyfield-Bowe 1. You know when the HW division didn't suck.

[brocktonblockbust]

Smokin Joe Frazier was champ and I was in 1st grade. Still remember hearing about that fight all the way home from school--guess it was a monday---, things were still buzzing from the previous Im guessing saturday night at MSG.

dont remember any other weight class champs back then. was only 7 years old.

[superheavyrhun]

Tyson vs Bruno 1 was my first boxing match I watch. So 1989 I started watching it but really didn't love it until around 1992 when I saw Holyfield-Bowe 1. You know when the HW division didn't suck.

This was probably the first one that I remember watching, I had to sneak from my room into my grandad's room to watch that fight as it was past my bedtime, and I had to hide behind the sofa when dad brought my grandad a cuppa about halfway through.

I think I did something similar for one of the Benn Eubank fights, probably the first one, as after those fights Boxing disappeared to sky so I didn't watch much more after that for years.

[killersheep]

Mike Tyson was the unbeatable monster, everywhere in the media. The guys like Hagler Hearns SRL and Duran were at the twilights of their careers. Newer guys like Meldrick Taylor and Terry Norris were coming up, ODLH too. I liked heavyweights more then because you had Riddick Bowe, Lennox Lewis, Tommy Morrison, Razor Ruddock(I actually wanted him to beat Tyson)Holyfield, Moorer , but my favorite was Big George on his comeback. He was knocking people out and it looked like he was in slow motion doing it. Pernell Whitaker was one of the top p4p guys.

I think we started around the same time. Douglas was heavyweight champ for a minute. Sweet Pea was there, Carbajal was big out here as a local boy. JCC was riding the gravy train. Foreman hadn't even come out with his grill yet.

Just came back to fulfill my bet with you anyway, I'm off again have a good one fellas.

[greynotsoold]

My mother started taking me to the fights at the Olympic Auditorium when I was 8 or 9, which would have been around 1973. She was a Bobby Chacon and Armando Muniz fan, while I was do-or-die with Litrtle Red Lopez. When he won the featherweight title, it was the first time I got excited about a fighter winning a title. The Muniz-Palomino fights were great fights, too. I remember Zamora and Zarate, and feeling bad about liking them because they had each defeated Alberto Davila, who lived a couple blocks away from me. The fight between them, Zarate and Zamora, was a war as well; it wasn't on television so I stayed up late to hear the results on the local news.
Ali was champ then, after Foreman, and I watched his fights (and whatever fights were on) but mostly he fought bums (Richard Dunn comes to mind, and Leon Spinks) and I have never been too impressed by heavyweights in general. Bob Foster was LHW champ then, at the end of his career, but it was only years later that I watched him. Then it was Mathew Franklin (later Saad Muhammad) and Marvin Johnson engaging in epic wars, and Victor Galindez. Marvin Hagler. Duran.
Mostly, though, my memlories focus on the top-flight Mexican fighters, champions and no, that were fighting around the LA area then. And Andy Ganigan and Randy Shields.

[Mattyhitman]

Mike Tyson was the unbeatable monster, everywhere in the media. The guys like Hagler Hearns SRL and Duran were at the twilights of their careers. Newer guys like Meldrick Taylor and Terry Norris were coming up, ODLH too. I liked heavyweights more then because you had Riddick Bowe, Lennox Lewis, Tommy Morrison, Razor Ruddock(I actually wanted him to beat Tyson)Holyfield, Moorer , but my favorite was Big George on his comeback. He was knocking people out and it looked like he was in slow motion doing it. Pernell Whitaker was one of the top p4p guys.

I think we started around the same time. Douglas was heavyweight champ for a minute. Sweet Pea was there, Carbajal was big out here as a local boy. JCC was riding the gravy train. Foreman hadn't even come out with his grill yet.

Just came back to fulfill my bet with you anyway, I'm off again have a good one fellas.

Bloody hell mate, thought you'd left the planet !!

Good to see your ok and doing well Killer !!