I normally just say "i go to the gym"

[JF91]

If they ask, I tell them.

If they dont ask, I tell them that I am ****ing amazing and untouchable and that I am sooo good and omfg I rock at boxing omg look at my arms I do boxing do you wanna come to my house and watch me box I'm so good I bet you wish you were me omg you should see me box I'm amazing its so good when I box im amazing do you think I'm amazing I love boxing everyone thinks I'm amazing.

But yeah, ****ing hate braggers..

[DELETED ACCOUNT 06]

I bet they all think your ****. Haha.

I tell a few but you do get a load of **** from people saying I bet I can have ya easy ****** ****s lol.

Yeah they do. They can't comprehend how an "old man" can do it. The kids have no perception of age, i'm 22 years old for ****s sakes. I think they think i should be playing lawn bowls and drinking peppermint tea.

It blows there minds to think i might visit a nightclub every so often and train in an exciting sport 5 nights a week.

I've been trying to get a video to some of the lads for weeks! haha. Just to shut them up.

[Kayo]

I only bring it up when asked or offered drugs i kind of use it as a anti drug like "no i cant smoke its hella bad for stamina and i need all i can for kickboxing"

[Danster0507]

Same and I also have to tell people so they know I'm not going out drinking cos I'm an anti-social bastard but because I have trainingin the morning.

[brian123]

i tell people when i have a fight coming up so they come thats about it

[jberg]

i sort of mention it, but just like i would any other sport.
some people are suprised because they think im too middle class or 'white' to box

[DutchDynamite]

i sort of mention it, but just like i would any other sport.
some people are suprised because they think im too middle class or 'white' to box

i was your age when i started boxing, my grandma was so worried. She tried to talk me out of boxing but it didn't help much. She wanted me to play soccer. How is your family about you and boxing?

[JayCoe]

I am not a guy that goes around telling people that i box or do other martial arts. Only when people ask me sort of directly, so what sports do you do, i will tell. Last week 2 of my former colleagues walked in to the gym planning to join and they saw me, and were very surprised. They signed up.

I have trained in very disciplined gyms around asia where showing of is not tolerated by the trainers and were you will not dare to question them. Showing of will put you in the ring with pros and it will not be a pain free experience. They do that just to shut you up.

Do you guys look for every opportunity to tell people or you also just do your own thing?

As of yet I don't box. I understand the requirements for boxing and feel that in order to maintain dignity I need to get stronger and fitter before I join a club. Whenever I went to the gym and people asked why (can you believe people ask why you go to the gym now?!) I would reply "oo because I want to get into boxing"...Now I don't, now I just say "to get healthy". I'm the type of person who wants to learn, read and study what it is i'm getting into, that aside, I found an interesting book on Mike Tyson aswell. My mate let me used his amazon account (he gets next day) to get some boxing training books etc, letting me know what i'm in for and so I could get ready over the long University holidays so I could just join when I get back. People asked what i'd got, mate told them and they initially replied with "oh that's pretty cool, if there was any sport for you it'd be boxing" and I was quite relaxed about it and happy. Later on the little jibes come on, basically "boxers are psychos" "nuts" "have no brains" "violent" and the only reason people ever want to learn it is so they can beat up other people...So, it's like, I don't even properly do it yet and people have judged me. Truth is, in modern-day-Britain boxing is not seen to be a respectable sport. They think it's all about fighting and hurting, not even knowing that amatuer exists, thinking it's all heavyweight pros who knock each other out. So, that's my story so far, I can't even imagine what people say to you lot who have been doing it for years.

[makaveli_uk]

I learnt this the hard way by telling some folks I boxed, and a load of ****ers from my school turned up.. Ffs.. No more bragging for me.

[Rockin']

I rarely talk about it, it seems that other people seem to like doing it for me.

I just show up, do my work and they see what they need to.........Rockin'