What got you into boxing?

lol ask el puma that RIGHT NOW

 

i was a casual fan up until late 2007 and then the hype for mayweather/hatton drew me in and ever since then my love for the sport has grown.

I will watch anyone box now and will watch old fights and study fighters on youtube.

love to bet on it and do very well

a lot of people blast sky sports but the hype for may/hatton was unreal, they nailed it

 

Well I'm only 17 years old,
and from being pretty young I used to watch K1 and shitloads of muay-thai/mma..
Started training muay-thai from since I was 11 till when I was 14, then my dad's friend who trains boxing started taking me on the pads and stuff every once in a while..
Then I started to watch it on the tv because I liked to try and point out technicalities and stuff, and now I have a pretty big obsession with it

 

Watching Naseem Hamed Vs. Jose Badillo while I was in hospital getting my appendix out. I think I was 6 at the time.

 

my dads love for Ali got me into it..

and this:

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my fellow fans from the 90's during tysons era will remember this puppy!!

 

Roy Jones jr took me from casual half-a-fan to full on boxing fan.

 

My dad used to box and has always been a fan of the sport, so growing up, he used to tell me stories about all the different fighters throughout the ages, which I loved even as a young kid. I have an older brother too, so me and him would always be play fighting and my dad would teach us little thing about the sport. I think the actual thing which got me really interested though was a boxing game. It was on the Sega Megadrive and I loved it. I even remember one time I played my brother and the game went on so long, my dad took over from us, when our fingers got tired I was Jack Dempsey and my brother was Rocky Marciano. It's funny how I still remember that, but I think that's where my love came from.

Anyone else remember this?: [ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Heavyweights_of_the_Ring[/ame]

 

i was an exceptionally talented fighter, used to beat people on the streets just for the fun of it so i was always into violence from a young age.

at around 6 or 7 i used to love watching boxing, my dad bought me ali video's and when i got a bit older i was into larry holmes, ray leonard, hagler, hearns, tyson, chavez, nigel benn, roy jones.

to this day i still have a ridiculous collection of video's that i taped off tv from the above mentioned fighters.

 

Tyson

 

I'm calling you out, as soon as I find some cheap Ryanair flights you're going down.

 

It's funny read comments from older fans. I love this sport so much, I feel a lot of envy towards those who have seen so much more than me. I listened to a Bert Sugar story the other day, and he was talking about how he first fell in love with boxing and I was left thinking "Damn, I wish I could have been around for Robinson, Frazier and Napoles"

Though I've only been a hardcore fan for less than a decade, so I have a lot of great fights and fighters to see yet.

 

i would ferociously maul you, brutally dismantle you in jeff lacy fashion :deal

your face would be like your avatar within one minute