What was your single most indelible boxing memory or moment?

[HattonTheHammer]

Lennox Lewis fighting Razor Ruddock. Big step up and Lennox smashed him.

hatton-tszyu takes some beating. Nobody really gave the unbeaten hatton much of a chance as he was stepping in with someone 5times better than he`d been in with before. Head and heart both suggested ricky was perhaps gonna get stopped around 7-8 but he just took the fight to tszyu and that iconic moment at the end of the 11th will always be with me as i remember having goosebumps all over.

Also the night hopkins beat pavlik when again nobody gave him a chance. That moment at the end of the fight where hopkins just stood infront press row and gave that emotional look is something i will take to my grave with me!!

[ono]

Lennox Lewis fighting Razor Ruddock. Big step up and Lennox smashed him.

hatton-tszyu takes some beating. Nobody really gave the unbeaten hatton much of a chance as he was stepping in with someone 5times better than he`d been in with before. Head and heart both suggested ricky was perhaps gonna get stopped around 7-8 but he just took the fight to tszyu and that iconic moment at the end of the 11th will always be with me as i remember having goosebumps all over.

Also the night hopkins beat pavlik when again nobody gave him a chance. That moment at the end of the fight where hopkins just stood infront press row and gave that emotional look is something i will take to my grave with me!!

I remember reading Boxing Monthly before the Hatton - Tszyu fight and all 25 supposed experts had Tszyu, most by KO. So i suppose it was quite a big upset at the time.

[Lefty]

Personally it has to be Haye v Maccarinelli. 50/50 fight at the time, one of the biggest British domestic fights in the past few years.

Fight that really got me into boxing was Calzaghe v Lacy, nobody gave Calzaghe a chance and he kicked ten shades of shiit out of Lacy.

[holmcall]

3 weird ones with a link

The "Fan Man," James Miller, landed during the 1993 heavyweight fight
between Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield. When the lines of his paraglide
tangled, he hit the canvas, and one of his legs got caught in the top rope of the
ring. Fans dragged him down and gave him a beating. After his release from the
hospital, he was charged with dangerous flying and released on bail. As it turned
out, he was the only one who got knocked out, as Holyfield beat Bowe by a
majority descision.

In 1997, Oliver McCall suffered an emotional breakdown in his heavyweight
title fight with Lennox Lewis. This was altogether a chilling memory, but not
altogether unexpected.

Also in 1997, Mike Tyson was disqualified for twice biting Holyfield’s ears,
claiming he was retaliating because of head butting by Holyfield.
Now each of these incidents is a notable entry in my memory bank, but what
truly makes them memorable is that each was held in Las Vegas, each was for a
heavyweight title, and each was refereed by Mills Lane.

[No Contest]

I would have to say Buster Douglas upsetting Tyson. Everyone basically wrote this fight off, I didnt remember it even being shown on HBO or PPV.(was it?) Then next day everyone is talking about it and your like yeah right, quit bullshitting. I didnt believe it until I finally saw it on the news.

[paddy448]

My best moment is a toss up between hattons win over tszyu or winning my first amateur bout. I've got loads of great memories but these 2 stand out

[jdonaher1]

I think one of the most satisfying boxing moments for me was when Johhny Tapia boxed circles around Danny Romero. I was such a big fan of Tapia's and it always drove me nuts that he had to play 2nd fiddle to Danny. The Romero family so badly disrespected Tapia and made him wait to get that fight. They had to move the fight out of Albuqerque to Vegas becasue they thought they might need the Nation Guard to do security LOL. Johnny fought so beautiful and just dominated Danny. It was great.

[paddy448]

I think one of the most satisfying boxing moments for me was when Johhny Tapia boxed circles around Danny Romero. I was such a big fan of Tapia's and it always drove me nuts that he had to play 2nd fiddle to Danny. The Romero family so badly disrespected Tapia and made him wait to get that fight. They had to move the fight out of Albuqerque to Vegas becasue they thought they might need the Nation Guard to do security LOL. Johnny fought so beautiful and just dominated Danny. It was great.

good call

[holmcall]

Bobby and Valorie

This wasn’t “Stoker” (Robert Ryan) and Julie (Audrey Totter) in the movie The Set-Up; this was the real thing.

In 1982 after losing to Cornelius Boza Edwards in the 14th round, Bobby Chacon regrouped and beat Augustin Rivera and Renan Marota in succession. On March 16, he was scheduled to fight Salvador Ugalde.

Meanwhile, after the Boza Edawards fight, his wife, Valorie, begged him to quit boxing and move to Hawaii to settle down. Somehow, some way, perhaps the warning signs were not understood. Of coures, hindsight is 20-20 and it’s easy to second guess. Maybe Bobby thought it was just something that would pass. At any rate, he didn’t see what was coming. Valorie flew back to Sacramento from Hawaii and reportedly pleaded with Bobby to quit. But Bobby felt he had more to give. Tragically, on March 14, 1982, shortly before he was to square off against Ugalde, Valorie committed suicide.

Incredibly, Bobby decided to go through with the bout and knocked out Ugalde. As the ring announcer was about to speak, the guilt-rdden Bobby grabbed the microphone and tearfully dedicated his win to his fallen wife.

He then won two more fights in the next three months before beating Bazooka Limon in an epic battle for the WBC junior lightweight title. It was voted Fight of the Year as The Schoolboy won a remarkable fifteen round decision.

In 1983, he would go on to defend against Boza Edwards and retain his crown in still another Fight of the Year avenging his early loss to the tough Boza Edwards. These two fights were also indelible memories for me, particularly the Limon bout which may well have been the most exciting one I have ever witnessed.


It was just a little piece of time in history, but it contained enough drama for a lifetime.

[Violent Demise]

Lennox Lewis fighting Razor Ruddock. Big step up and Lennox smashed him.

hatton-tszyu takes some beating. Nobody really gave the unbeaten hatton much of a chance as he was stepping in with someone 5times better than he`d been in with before. Head and heart both suggested ricky was perhaps gonna get stopped around 7-8 but he just took the fight to tszyu and that iconic moment at the end of the 11th will always be with me as i remember having goosebumps all over.

Also the night hopkins beat pavlik when again nobody gave him a chance. That moment at the end of the fight where hopkins just stood infront press row and gave that emotional look is something i will take to my grave with me!!

I remember reading Boxing Monthly before the Hatton - Tszyu fight and all 25 supposed experts had Tszyu, most by KO. So i suppose it was quite a big upset at the time.

Everybody expected a one on one fight. Which is why everybody picked Tszyu. He was past his prime. Coming off multiple surgery. And had been pretty inactive. But he was still clearly the better fighter. What nobody expected was the fight would be a handicap fight. Tszyu vs Ricky Hatton & Dave Paris. It was a shameful charade.

[JazMerkin]

There are a few that really stick out for me.

One of the first was watching TV in the middle of the night on my summer holidays when I was 10 years old and seeing an excellent American boxer fighting during the 96 Olympics. I'd been waiting for the football, but instead got caught up in this. The American appeared to win to the fans & commentators, only for the victory to be given to his Bulgarian opponent. I was annoyed and became a fan of the American, both because I thought he should have won & I thought he had a name like a cowboy, Floyd Mayweather Jr.

There was the Naz/Kevin Kelley fight and Naz dancing to Men In Black (my favourite song at 11), which always sticks with me. The images of the fight that I have come from having re-watched it later, but that one mental image of him dancing I stilll have from when I was 11.

Shane Mosley being announced the winner over Oscar in their first fight remains a favourite, as it marked out Shane as my favourite fighter until the PED use came out. I was watching a replay like a week later, but we didn't have internet then so I didn't have a clue what the result was.

The Mayweather/Hatton fight also has what is probably the most indelible moment to me, and that is the moment Hatton falls away from the punches and Mayweather turns to run up to the ringpost. This one moment probably sticks with me more than anything, and I'm not sure why. It's always my first thought when I think of KO's, boxing etc

Lastly, I've gotta agree with Hammer, the moment where Hopkins stood staring out into the crowd was one of my favourite sporting images of all time, it was spine-chlling & really sticks with me. There was another moment from that fight that did, and it was a point where Hopkins threw a bolo punch into Pavlik, who just stayed covered up & B-Hop made a face at him as if to say 'c'mon kid you've got to have SOMETHING'

[palmerq]

I found Lewis v rahman to be very memorable...... It was on bbc(there wasnt much on the bbc then and even now i think :S) and it as early in the morning wasnt it even though it was south africa and Rahman takes a bit of a beating and looked to be on the way out then he gets lewis with a few jabs and one big punch....... The bbc guy doing the interviews backstage looked like he might start crying :S..... It was quite a shock lewis was a great heavyweight on good form and gets knocked out with one punch..

Also i find the way hatton gets knocked out to be very memorable too.... he just falls in a great way...

[CutMeMick]

This.

'Get in there Frank!' RIP Harry

You can clearly see Fenster from the 3:20 mark all the way to the 3:30 mark way in the back with the sunglasses and the mustache...

[Andre]

Ali V Foreman, they showed at the cinema here in OZ!

You old b@stard, me too.

[holmcall]

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