Which boxing memory from 2024 will live with you longest?

The boxing year of 2024 spawned plenty of memorable moments. The BoxingScene writers attempt to pinpoint the one that will live longest.

What will live longest in your memory?

Kieran Mulvaney: Being at AT&T Stadium for Jake Paul-Mike Tyson. The whole thing felt surreal, but I’ll always remember not only the roar for Tyson’s ring entry and introduction, but also almost physically feeling the sense of disappointment and disillusionment in the crowd the moment it became clear that, shockingly, the 58-year-old wasn’t going to be competitive.

Lucas Ketelle: Usyk rocking Fury in round nine, when it looked like Fury was on his way to stopping him.

Owen Lewis: Usyk landing that vicious left hand on Fury in round nine of their first fight. To that point, we had no evidence that Usyk could hurt Fury that badly or at all, then Usyk proved otherwise when the fight was essentially dead-even. That punch should go down as the defining blow of Usyk’s career. Even in the moment, I knew he’d made himself a legend whether he went on to win the fight or not.

Matt Christie: Watching Fury-Usyk in a television studio alongside Barry McGuigan.

Declan Warrington: The moments before Fury-Usyk I. The significance of the occasion, the years of waiting, and the recognition that two such very good fighters were about to contest the undisputed heavyweight title in a fight that was so difficult to predict made it almost surreal to be ringside. For that night at least, it felt like the sport at its very best.

Jason Langendorf: Usyk’s grace and perspective as he trained and fought away from Ukraine during a time when his home country was under siege. It’s hard enough for any of us to know the right things to do and say in our daily lives. Usyk’s navigation to the pinnacle of his craft through a daily nightmare – handling it with purpose and equanimity – was a rare display of the modern sportsman embodying the best of the human spirit.

Lance Pugmire: Seeing Phoenix’s Footprint Center packed with fans for the first main-card undercard bout in June. On the night Jesse “Bam” Rodriguez stopped Mexican legend and WBC super-flyweight champion Juan Francisco Estrada after being knocked down himself, a fight town was fully reborn as promoters have fully come to expand the sport’s reach beyond the safe, predictable destinations.

Tris Dixon: Being at the Tokyo Dome when Inoue was dropped by Luis Nery. Good grief, talk about scripts almost being ripped up. As it turned out, it was all part of the story.

Eric Raskin: I’m giving two answers here. From my couch, it was watching Usyk pinball Fury from one side of the ring to the other in the ninth round of their first fight — with my good friends Nigel Collins and Bill Dettloff reacting excitedly right alongside me. At ringside, it’s hard to shake the experience of taking in the undercard of “Boots” Ennis vs. David Avanesyan in Philly as word spread gradually through the press section that elsewhere in Pennsylvania minutes earlier, a gunman had fired bullets at Donald Trump in a failed assassination attempt. It was a challenge to focus on the fights that night as instead my mind raced through the various repercussions of the news of the day.

Elliot Worsell: Round nine of Usyk vs. Fury I will stay with me and continue to remind me of why I still watch and get excited by big fights. On the flipside, Jake Paul and Mike Tyson – and everybody surrounding that spectacle – did all they could to stop me watching ever again.