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Post by londonerryan on Jan 30, 2012 14:32:41 GMT -5
I can't quite pin point the exact moment when i got interested. I think maybe i'd seen a few bouts on TV and they interested me.
But, i think my earliest memory was when i was about 7 or 8 and i was going through my parent's cupboard. I found a box full of boxing books of my Dad's. There was a book about HW greats, another about 80s greats and the ones that fascinated me the most were the ones about Muhammad Ali. I took them all to my room and kept them.
I also remember going round my grandparent's house and looking at their video collection and seeing some Ali videos and my granddad let me have them. There was Ali-Liston I+II, Ali-Foreman and not sure what else.
So i think Ali was the first boxer i really knew about. Then as i became more aware of boxing bouts, Nigel Benn became my favourite boxer.
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Post by chris on Feb 4, 2012 15:29:36 GMT -5
In a tent, four posts in the ground, and some old rope rapped around it with saw dust and dirt on the floor. I, can only try and understand what it could of been like to fight in a booths as me and a mate of mine Terry Fitzgerald was put forward by the school to go to a John Bosco camp for boys for one week in 1982 run by monks, maybe to help with our behaviour problems who knows!!, we were both 11 years old at the time and the camp was running a boxing team, there pride and joy fighters were walking around the camp like Billy big bollox, Me and Terry put our names down to have a box and a laugh, two scaly wags from Dagenham. First fight I knocked the crap out off some kid but he really he couldn't fight, Terry done the same. Time for the big boys and they reckon they could fight but the kid aged 13 who I fought, punched me right in the eye and that was it, I knocked him all round the ring, then his team through the towel in, I won 10p and a certificate!!. Terry also won his fight, we where the kings off the camp and got the best dinners, and lots of sweets, but deep down we knew we upset the camp but they let us play, and did what we liked, we were outcasted and none of the kids would play with us, but we didn’t care! maybe they were scared of us, or they just didn’t like us for beating up there little angel boxers. good fun, I know it's not the same as the boxing booths of the 1920s but I’d like to think so, and that’s what got me into boxing. I when on to box for Tate & Lyle in north Woolwich. Chris Walsh
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Post by bdeskins1 on Jul 29, 2012 11:35:01 GMT -5
The Ken Norton-Larry Holmes bout was the spark that lit a life long fire for boxing...I was six, or seven at the time. As I got a little older I became more and more interested in the history of the sport and I very much was interested in fighter records and stats. I started to take research very seriously around 1986-1987 and since then I have put together a pretty solid personal library of magazines, books, newspapers, etc!
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Post by roberto on Feb 6, 2013 13:36:22 GMT -5
I think my interest must have started through the family watching bouts on tv. I can remember watching and preferring amateur matches - Dick McTaggart among others. One year in 1961 there was a set of matches GB against USA and GB won all of the matches. Billy Walker knocked out Cornelius Perry, a giant of a man, to win the final match. A brilliant day for British Boxing. I always felt that Billy Walker should have stayed in Britain and that his career was ruined in America.
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Post by catherinegs on Nov 28, 2015 9:46:23 GMT -5
I think my earliest fight that I can remember being excited about was probably Tyson vs someone. But since then it has been more of the lower weight classes i.e. jrWelter, WW, LMW, MW. couragetrainingcentre.com/category/mma/
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