As indicated in Part II of last week’s article, “101 Reasons to Love Boxing,” many of you responded to the list, and gave me the reasons why you love boxing so much.  Even though some of responses are quite similar to what I already had on my list, as promised, I have included all of your responses, and copied and pasted them in the list below.  So here now, from the BoxingTalk readers, are even more reasons to love boxing that I apparently and unintentionally left out.

102. The heavyweight champion is also a doctor.
 
103. Never knowing what will happen in a Zab Judah fight.

 
104. Ricardo Mayorga giving Trinidad 3 "free" shots to the jaw, and the 3rd one wobbling him.


105. Mike Tyson's stare down of Peter McNeeley when he came back from prison.


106. When We Were Kings.


107. Prince Naseem Hamed's ring entrances/flip over the top rope.


108. Prince Naseem Hamed's Boxing style with hand's by his legs encouraging other fighters to go for the big knock out, only then to miss and be knocked out themselves by a devastating power punch.


109. Witnessing what true fans are like when witnessing a British Boxer being cheered on by fellow countrymen no matter how bad they are boxing, and almost taking every punch with them.


110. Lennox Lewis winning every fight as a pro boxer by avenging his only 2 losses and 1 draw and being undisputed heavyweight champion and maybe being the most underrated boxer of the last decade and heavyweight of all time because he is not from the USA!

111. Watching and listening to so called "US boxing
pundits" only liking and rating boxers from North and South America and totally disregarding boxers from Britain.  Hopefully Ricky Hatton, Junior Witter, David Haye, Amir Kahn, Joe
Calzaghe, Carl Froch, Enzo Maccrinelli, Gavin Rees, Clinton Woods, Paul Smith, and a shed load of others can start getting noticed and prove people over there wrong.

Editors Note: #107-111 were all from the same guy from, you guessed it…Great Britain.


112. Watching Jimmy Lennon Jr announce a fight on HBO and knowing you won't have to hear him say "IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIt's Showtime!"


113. A fighter's fans are true fans, and will make any excuse they can think of to defend why their fighter lost, (ex.) Had trouble making weight, hurt his hand early in the fight, didn't get to wear his choice of gloves, the referee didn't like him, personal problems, the list goes on.. If the Red Sox lose, it's because the other team beat them.
 
114. Teddy Atlas
 
115. Arturo Gatti and Diego Corrales
 
116. Grant's custom color gloves
 
117. Watching prospects like Andre Berto and the Peterson brothers come up, and waiting in anticipation with each fight to see where their careers will go.
 
118. An argument as to who won a close fight can go on for months, even years, after the fight. If the Red Sox lose to the Yankees by one point, it's because the Yankees beat them by one point, and that can't be argued.
 
119. One of the greatest songs of all time is not called “The Hockey Player” or “The Basketball Player,” it is “The Boxer” by Simon and Garfunkel.
 
120. Hagler-Hearns (I could have sworn I included this in my list)
 
And my personal favorite, and one that I was surprised I left out…

121. Joe Goosen's shirts!
 

 

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