When boxing is hitting on all cylinders it’s really exciting to be around a big fight. I say around it as I spent a good amount of my younger days around fight people. I may have even met
@k9cane.
The boxing teams start showing up to the Vegas hotel on a Tuesday and then each day more and more fight people arrive. There’s a level of excitement in the air that builds that is indescribable. You have the press conference on Wednesday or Thursday (I can’t remember) and of course the weigh in, if I recall, on Friday. By the time the event starts on Saturday night, the atmosphere is just pumped up and powerful.
I can honestly say, as someone who has covered hundreds of boxing events, nights like when Pacquiao fought Marquez and Morales(I went to all of those fights) or GGG-Canelo I and II, or Morales-Barrera(went to all three of those wars), major bouts at Madison Square Garden etc, are really special, even to this day
As RVA stated, for the truly big fights -- or ones that turn out to be all-time classics like Ruslan Provodnikov-Tim Bradley -- you still have this incredible feeling that you are at something special. For the really big fights, the entrances themselves are memorable. There's really nothing like it.
For me, big Miami games (especially the ones at the Orange Bowl) and fights are my personal favorites. I like all sports basically, but these are the only two I'd really take time out of my schedule to go and attend. And one is my job(covering boxing), the other is my passion(Miami Hurricanes football)
I can honestly say that the two most memorable/favorite events Ive attended are Diego Corrales-Jose Luis Castillo I(which is the greatest fight I've ever seen ringside, and nothing will probably ever top it) and Miami-UCLA (December 5th, 1998, a day that will live in Bruin infamy) which was my first OB experience. Unreal game, Edge doing what he did, rushing the field after(and I still have a piece of sod in my office as a keepsake from the field, lol, yeah, Im a nut)
