What are the fights that got you hooked?

[BlackAchilles]

Which are the fights that really got u hooked on watching boxing/UFC?

For me:

Pacquiao vs Cotto: Had the bar packed, was a crazy atmosphere

Mayweather vs Canelo: Had never seen technical boxing like that before

Lesnar vs Mir II: First time having ppl over for UFC and it was a card for the ages

 

[Knockout_LR_Freshmart]

I remember watching a lot of UFC Unleashed when I was young Liddell/Rashad/Rampage/Forrest/Silva etc.

Ali is probably the most famous athlete ever, so I started watching boxing with his fights on Comcast On Demand as a kid.

 

[TheNig]

No idea what I was watching. I like 6 or 7 years old and my grandfather was watching this. My eyes were just glued to the TV.

 

[Erratic415]

A bunch of fights in 90-91, especially:

Julio Cesar Chavez-Meldrick Taylor 1
Mike Tyson-Razor Ruddock 1
Evander Holyfield-George Foreman

I remember being a kid and really looking forward to the Tyson-Ruddock rematch, which was only 3 months after the 1st bout. The Holyfield-Tyson in November 91’ bout being cancelled was a real letdown. I remember they announced it during that Ray Mercer-Tommy Morrison card.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

The first 2 of the Barrera vs Morales trilogy sent my ass straight to the gym. Didnt look back after

 

[NZA]

floyd v augustus

 

[profound]

Lesnar vs Mir II: First time having ppl over for UFC and it was a card for the ages

surprised to see this answer, i got the same answer

First ppv I ordered, the feeling i got seeing lesnar lay waste to mir was only ever replicated by seeing nunes faceplant cyborg

mir wasnt the only one to talk shyt then proceed to eat it on that card, the H-bomb (and follow up) really solidified things

 

[Adonis]

Rocky Balboa vs Apollo Creed

 

[Bigblackted4]

Season 2 of the contender

 

[NormanConnors]

Haglar vs Hearns, significant because it was days close to my birthday too

Hagler vs Mugabi

Seeing Tyson start out

Seeing Sweet Pea start out

Hearns vs Duran

Hearns vs Leonard Pryor vs Arguello (didn't see those live time, but did a few years later on replay respectively)

Really any 80's fades, the contender and title fights were dope but you had a lot of random scraps/no names that were classic as well, quite a few I can't remember, all of the weight classes had some heat

Saturday mornings were legit/a must see as well on ABC. Marlin Starling and Jorge Piaz were low-key favs, I thought it was cool Piaz would do those flips (Teo bit his shyt imo).

I was a bit of a Sharmba Mitchell stan earlier on. I remember correctly he used to come out in suspenders and I thought that was dope

By the time the 90's started I was already hooked.

 

[patscorpio]

For me its not really a fight per se it was the vibe...when i was young...my dad used to have ppl over back in the day..uncles, the other fathers on my street over to watch fights...esp the ppv on the hotbox in the 80s...and they used to be carrying on and all that and i used to wonder why..shyt had me hooked

 

[xXMASHERXx]

Boxing: Whitaker vs De La Hoya
UFC: Newton vs Hughes

Interesting, in both fights I think champion should have kept their belt

 

[P90]

Mayweather v Gatti and then Zab Judah v Miguel Cotto

 

[Kornball The Conqueror]