When you were young, who was your favorite fighter in the sport of boxing?

Question

When you first started to like the sport of boxing, who was your favorite boxer? Has that changed over the years?

Answer 1

My first favorite was Joe Frazier and I loved it the night he beat Ali and knocked him down in their historic fight. Later on I was a big fan of Salvador Sanchez and I always thought that Alexis Arguello had a lot of class and a great fighter too. Also I loved to watch Roberto Duran fight. No it has not changed over the years either.

Answer 2

I was about ten years old, and about 25 or thirty of us kids were following Muhammad Ali down the street. I remember grabbing his hand and marveling at how big his hand was and thinking wow, the champ of the world, in my neighborhood, and he's shaking my hand. He was young and clear headed and the moment burned into my mind.

Many years later I ran into Ali at a boxing show at the Palace of Auburn Hills, just outside of Detroit, and was lucky enough to sit a couple seats from him the whole night. We watched a young Oba Carr and a young Michael Moorer. He was early to mid stage with his neurological problem by then, and what I remember most was the sparkling intelligence in his eyes as he tried to speak. His great intellect was still intact, it was just somewhere between the brain and the lips, something slowed his speech. I haven't seen him since, and I wish him only the best of God's blessings.

He will always be the fighter who most influenced me, favorite is too small a word to describe the man. I am old now, with grown children of my own, and I choke up at the thought of meeting the man. He was so much more than a boxer, words can't do justice to the man. Historical circumstance will never allow the likes of him again. He really in the strictest sense of the word was "the greatest".

Answer 3

Actually I didn't get to see all the PPV's and HBO fights when I was young just Tuesday Night Fights on USA and a regular on there that always put on a show was Vinny Pazienza "the Pazmanian Devil" HE would get knocked down and jump up and hit the guy back before the ref could start counting and was always the aggressor. I guess I haven't changed much I still like the same style whether it is Arturo Ghatti fighting Mickey Ward or Marco Antonio Barerra fighting Erik Morales I always like the brawler and the aggressor. Most every one else I knew could only talk about Tyson which was also entertaining but I always rooted against him. I became a big Hollyfield fan when he came into the picture and rooted for Foreman as well during his comeback.

Good question! :o)

Answer 4

When I first started boxing I loved Joe Frazier and I learned to throw a big left hook. As I got more and more into it, I started to like Pretty Boy Floyd a lot more. My hook was not working in the gym and that was all I had. I learned more technique and tried to become more like PBF. Joe Frazier is still my favorite though and I have the picture of Ali being knocked down by Frazier taped in my locker.

Answer 5

Evander Holyfield, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Rocky Balboa..

Answer 6

Well I am 31. Tyson was knocking out everyone in his way in the 80's era. So he would have to be my favorite. I also remember and really liked watching Marvin Hagler. He was robbed when they gave Leonard the decision!

Answer 7

My favorite boxer growing up was Mike Tyson. I used to watch him in awe as he picked apart his opponents. He is just plain scary. Sometimes, his opponents have lost even before the fight has begun. He still is one of my favorites, although he has retired. Now, my favorite is Manny Pacquiao. They are both mirror images of one another in different weight classes.

Answer 8

I was young, and his name was Cassius Clay, he was always winning and in the news (although my father didn't like him because he was a loudmouth and draft dodger and he had served in WW2) ...I got older and a friend of ours (Mardo Roybal) was boxing super middles and went to camp in palm springs and worked out with Donald Curry and Marvin Hagler who was preparing for the Hearns fight, he had said what I had always suspected, that Marvin was the hardest working , down to earth fighter he knew and respected him a lot...I was a big fan of Haglers, but still just a big boxing fan...I always thought George Foreman was special, when he was young, then after he came back...another friend of ours (Jamie 'Babs' Bills) was a sparring partner of Big Georges later in his career and said 'George would hit you with big telephone pole punches, you could see them coming but if he hit you he would oooof you' Ive always liked how George seemed like he never took anything too seriously, I still remember that crazy fight he had with Ron Lyle, no modern heavyweight could ever take punishment like that for one round much less over 6 and still win (12 knockdowns total), I was fortunate enough to spend a day with Winky Wright and his family in Disneyland about two years ago, he seemed like an originally nice guy and had told me 'this upcoming fight with Trinidad is a huge opportunity for me and my family' always a hard worker and overlooked Winky went off 9/5 underdog to Felix in that fight...he would send Trinidad to retirement with a unanamous decision...I wish him well now and always...

Answer 9

When I was in my early teens the boxer I held in high regard, and still do, was Salvador Sanchez. Later on Hagler came very close, and of course Ali.
My favorites: in order; Sanchez, Hagler, Ali.

Answer 10

determine skating... And sure that's a game. in case you do not think of that's attempt doing an axel. See how issues artwork out for ya. i like it! It makes me be happy and it takes a super sort of attempt yet i like it anyhow