Reason why you guys box

1. Weight - I wanted to loose weight, i was pretty chubby when i started out

2. Anger - Just to let my frustration at teachers out on the bag

3. Succsess - To hopefully become somebody in the boxing world.

 

1. Weight/fitness

2. As a personal challenge. Like you said, I want to accomplish something I can look back on later in life with fondness.

3. To surprise people who know me. I'm a mild-mannered professional and when people find out I box, it always surprises them.

 

well my brother grew up playing mike tysons punchout and also grew up watching tyson fight and he fell in love with the sport.......so he bought punch mitts when he got older and i was 6 at the time and i started hitting them and have been doing it for 10 yrs since....best sport in the world

 

Well I've been a big boxing fan since 95/96, I remember my first fight still - Mitchell Rose Vs Butterbean. Mitchell Rose stopped the big fat tub of lard, who at the time, I believed was unstoppable. At that moment I decided Mitchell Rose would be my favourite boxer. Sadly he didn't have the most successful career.

In truth, this is only half the tale though - There was an incident, 7 years ago now, where two guys from my school beat me to a pulp in public - I still have two bodily scars to remind me of it every day, and truth be told I suffered a lot mentally from the humiliation and emasculation of the experience. A couple years later I turned to bodybuilding, to be big and strong, and hopefully intimidating :good I did manage to get myself from a scrawny 62kg to a beefier 80kg in a few years.

But eventually I thought to myself - Why not start boxing? I love the sport, and realised it would teach me to defend myself, it would teach confidence, and get me fit and athletic, which I no longer was since I started smashing the weights!

I guess I saw boxing as some sort of way to restore my manhood, these days I would die if it was taken away from me. I don't compete, but I'm at the gym 5-6 days a week and loving it!

I actually didn't realise what my "reason" was until I read the thread title and thought about it. I think everyone has a reason for wanting to box beyond the simple appreciation of the sport.

 

haha i remember mine to i was in a hotel bc in was going to florida the next day.....it was micheal grant vs lou savarese

 

i always liked watching boxing, and was always into all sorts of different sports, one day after a basketball practice i got bullied and hit and i thought someday i am going to learn to box, after 3 or 4 years i started.

 

It's a great workout. Plus it makes me feel confident and like a badass. I also find it impresses people when you tell them you box, since not many people box, at least where I am.

 

And Rocky.

 

I just love the sport. Simple as that.

 

Yea that too That had to be the bigest inspiration to me, what a GREAT movie.

 

i started so i cold learn to fight better. im not gunna lie. my stand up was ****.

 

I grew up watching boxing with my dad. I've always loved it. I like doing anything that is a challenge so boxing is good for me.

 

I don't rightly know. I shoulda stuck with baseball or football.

 

Watched it for about 4 years and one day decided..I want to box, now its my favorite thing to do. Nothing amazing in that reason.