How did you get into boxing?

I grew up watching Mike Tyson and playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out.

 

Was at a local boys club when I was probably 10 years old and they had a boxing section and I was just drawn to it and started to learn.

 

One word -

TUA

 

Ali then Hagler, Hearns, Duran, Leonard. Boxed as a youth for a couple of years, until age 13.

 

My father was a huge boxing fan. Just became a part of my weekend since I was a old enough to remember.

 

I watched Charlie Zelenoff grow as a fighter until he became the undisputed chumpion of the world.

 

Naz

 

I was raised by Mexicans.

 

VBOX on fire with the stories and one line punchlines in this thread!

 

But what does that make you?

 

Mayweather Vs Dela Hoya really got me into but always the crazy British heavyweight scene in early 2000s was wild all the fighters gave everything just for that Lonsdale belt

 

it was gradual.. The names just stuck out at me and the magazines did help. They were so exciting to read at that time. Today does not have 5 percent of the excitement as those early years and fighters.

 

Mike Tyson's punch out.
1996 Atlanta olympics.
Rocky Balboa.
Knockout kings 2000.

In that order.

 

I wanted to know what strength really was, and become strong. So I started to box.

 

It was during the great depression. The year was 1931.

I couldn't get a job so I decided to fight for a living. I became a journey man, and after I broke my hand they black listed me from boxing.

My manger worked out a deal to get me a fight, one last fight so I can pay the electricity bill and buy food for my family. I won that fight, a total fluke. I got another fight and won, and then another and another as I kept winning.

Some people today still call me Cinderella Man.