What got you into boxing ???

[DAN916]

Mike tyson

[jvsnypes]

I was fascinated catching some of Ali's older fights as a kid. Didn't get hooked until Hagler vs Hearns. Been a major fan ever since.

[urrah]

I was a huge fan of mma and only casually watched boxing, but a couple of years ago I started watching boxing a bit more and the more I watched it the more I realised how terrible the striking in mma is.

I still like mma, but I find that boxing has much more strategy and depth to it, as Mayweather said, "mma is checkers, boxing is chess". I also find that a good boxing fight has more of an ebb and flow to it than mma, too often in mma you get guys lay n' praying the entire fight.

But I like both sports, and I wish that boxing had the same promotional set up as mma so that there'd never be these Bowe Lewis, Pacquiao Mayweather, Tyson Holyfield, Hopkins Jones II situations.

[Shabba Rank$]

My dad started watching UFC/MMA in 1993.

He got me watching it when I was 4 years old, then I introduced myself to boxing during a party.

The rest is history.

[Dubbed90]

I was brand new in a school disrtict starting High School, I knew nobody and found the new enviornment rather snobbish. That year a school had closed and those students were all transfered to the school that I was now attending. So there were the cliques of the one school, the cliques of the other and me standing some where in the middle with my goofy hair cut. I got through the 1st semester just laying low and planned to do the same through this semester, then came the 1st day of 4th hour English class.

I enter the class room to the familiar feeling of knowing nobody, nothing but faces of people that I knew nothing about. I head up the 1st isle of desks. There was a goofy looking kid with braces looking through his text book so I made my way to the desk behind him. As I started to place my books on the desk the kid turns around telling me that I can't sit there, I chuckle and sit down. He gets a scowl on his face and angrily turns back around.

The teacher begins his attendance checks by calling out names. The kid turns around and says I'll kick your ass, I'm a boxer. I'll pay your membership fee and I'll kick your ass. The rest is Rockin' history..........Rockin'

haha Great story.

In the past, I used to play a lot of football (soccer). Wasn't really that good. But I never gave. I used to play it non stop. Few years later, when I was 15, I became very good.

A year ago, I went with a friend of mine to the boxing gym. I had never seen anything like it. The place reeked of sweat, and blood. But yet I was curious. I started going there casually, coaches told me "don't bother, if you come in once or twice a week", I quit.

As I was leaving I read the banner at the top of the gym wall 'Quitter never win, and winners never quit'.

Went on with my life, for about 6 months. In that time I couldn't stop thinking about boxing, and that something was missing from my life.

I decided to rejoin the gym again, with a new mindset. 'No matter what happens you gotta brave through it'. Although, it's a different sport from football (soccer). Totally different.
If you work hard at it, you will reap the rewards.

lol There's my soppy story.

All in all, I love the deep history behind boxing, and the different types of fighters, all contributing to the sport in their own way.

[Weebler I]

My father watching it.

ditto, it used to be on terrestrial tv and everyone watched it.

[P4P_No1]

I used to always go with my Dad when he used to go round his friends house when a big Tyson fight was on. I wasn't that old at the time but I just remember seeing this guy completely rip apart his opponents inside a few rounds & I was like dam.

But I never really followed up on that interest & football (soccer for the Yanks) took over.

I got interested again when Nazeem came on the scene but once again when he left I kind of lost interest again.

But I've started following it properly after, oddly enough, seeing Khan at the Olympics & the first season of The Contender. Since then I've been hooked & whilst I don't know as much in terms of history & that like some of the posters on here, I've tried to learn as much as possible.

Definitely has become my favourite sport.

[PureBoxingCEO]

During my childhood, the Trinidad fights meant a reunion in my family. I had some uncles and members of the family that only i would see when Tito was fighting.. But since the Hopkins fight.. there was a big hole and i didnt even cared about boxing until 2006 when i saw Cotto spanking Paulie. Since that 2006 summer boxing has been a priority in my life.

[Bushbaby]

Chiquita Gonzales- Micheal Carbahal. That fight turned me from just a young spectator to avid boxing fan. For those who never saw that fight, I urge you to watch it. It's really an atg fight.

[zcm]

My brother is 12 years older than me n he always had his friends round way watching fights like Eubanks/Benn n Tyson fights n I was only a child so wanted 2 watch it with them. Worked out gd tho my brother took me 2 Vegas 4 my 18th bday (mayweather/hatton)