for Me it all started when i saw that Ali Movie with will Smith in it. i was like was that how Ali really did them, got ban and came back and won the Heavyweight title of the world. that did it for me i wanted to start boxing. I didn't want to do martial arts no more and i did it for like 7 years. won many of trophys that was taller than me at the time. i was the type to kick you on top of your head and say forget a punch that was not my style.then i started to do the Ali shuffle when we sparred. Then when i got to shcool i would start slap boxing with my class mates. they started calling me zab judah.then me and my cousin would be hangin out and out of no where he would ask sombody did they want to salpbox with me. i didn't want him to that most of the time.but being the type of fighter i am i never back down from a challenge. some would make up excuses and some would fight me and a lot look bad against me. people on the side line would be saying dam his lil ass speed bag him.people started telling me i needed to start boxing i'll say i know but i never went. i didnt start boxing to the end of my junior year of high school i'm a senior now. i guess i still would be slap boxing in the streets if my mother didn't go to a community center were they had a boxing gym in it. if i would have started when i was 14 when i saw that Ali movie. no telling were i be at now. the boxing coach love in there, he said i was a natural. he threw me in the ring the second second week i was there. i did good the first two round slipping punches, countering but in third round i was dead tired. i ain't never been that tired in my life. no lie. i was glad that round was over lol.
Back in 7th grade we had to do some gay reading thing so i picked an Ali book and even though I didn't finish it, I really thought Ali was great.
After in seeing tyson back in 1986, I won'ted to fight but my mother said NO, but when I turned 13 I went to the gym and started to fight
my brother played mike tysons punchout and he started to like the sport alot and started watching it and when he got his 1st job he bought some punch mitts and other equipment....i was 6 at the time when i started hitting them with him now im 16 and still love it
after taking tae kwon do, I realized how gay it was and decided to do a real martial art. ever since then, the ****'s been in my blood.
mix of rocky, Ali, and love of street fights. then i started getting into some trouble(with other kids and my parents, not cops) with street fights and decided i should still fight, just not on the street. after 2 years of trying to convince my mom, i joined a gym and never looked back.
i took karate for 5 years and loved it, but it cost too much and there wasnt enough contact. it also took a lot out of my legs. i love mma and wouldve prolly gone into that more but i cant kick too much anymore so i narrowed it down to boxing and im happy i did cuz i love it. its more like family at the gym too than it ever was when i took karate which is another aspect of it i like