Reason why you guys box

building character, self-esteem, confidence
fitness
self-defense
the adrenaline rush
the honor/respect you get

 

sheesh, i started boxing because my girlfriend was a heartless bi tch! lol, i thought i was hitting her when i was hitting the bag!!!!!!

 

I am training in boxing right now so I can be in peak shape when I got back to my MMA school. I also want to have sharper hands than what I would have just taking the Muay Thai.

I started boxing because I like to fight. Not to hurt people but the sense of pride I get after walking out of a sparring match that was a very good fight.

I love to fight but am scared shitless before I spar guys that are way better than me. I know that they are going to **** me up and I get scared. I just man up and get in the ring though.

 

i love sparring, you hit each other as hard as you can and in the end you are friends again.

 

I started as a kid to lose weight and have confidence that I could defend myself when kids picked on me, but when I started to really seriously box, I was 19. I didn't want to go to college right after high school and I had no direction in my life, so I took up boxing again and stuck with it for about 4 years. I loved to fight and I loved to train - it gave me a real feeling of accomplishment and worth...had 45 amateur fights and 11 exhibitions.

After I quit boxing, I went to college for 7 years and if I could do it over again, I wouldn't do anything differently.

 

Such an awesome thread.

I started boxing to see what I'm made of. To see what I can accomplish if I really give it my all. Besides, nothing makes me feel more alive than training/fighting, it really is a feeling that you can't simulate.

And this is my first post, so I'd like to say .... What's up to the ESB community!?$!?@!$$#$!

**pretty cool seeing why people box, what motivates them

 

I'm going to be completely honest. Video games. I got Fight night 2004 when it came out, then in 05 I got Fightnight Round 2 for my birth day, played that for about 4 months, then I asked my dad if he would take me to the nearest gym to box. Well, that gym happened to be Larry Holmes's. We went there first thing in January (06) and Ive been boxing ever since. Boxing seemed like it would be fun, and I was wrong, but I enjoy it A LOT. A few months ago, TV people came to Larry's to do a small documentary. They interviewed me, and they asked the same question as this one....I was too straight forward and honest for them to put my interview on. I know that my interview wasn't the best considering that I answered that I got into boxing because of a video game, and that I mainly answered with yes and no answers. I did get about 30 seconds of fame with them showing me hitting the heavybag though.

 

I always liked boxin and wanted to be a boxer . when I get older I just want to look back and say that I've done what I wanted to do and did the best that I could without having any regrets.

 

b4 i started i knew very little of the sport and what i knew of it i didn't like. i thought it was one of those things that ppl did if they were thugs or needed some $$. i went to a boxing gym near my house because i wanted to get fit for footy, and the moment i started training i fell in love with it and knew it was something i had to do. i pretty much straight away learnt that every1 in the gym was realy friendly and the opposite of the stereo type. i just live and breathe boxing and plan to really succeed in it (not being arrogant, its alot easier said than done).
Ironically i now hate it when ppl stereotype boxers because they know very little of it, iv learnt from that and i look into something a bit further befor i say its ****.

 

I started "boxing" because I was fat. I had no intention of sparring, the idea of being hit scared the **** out of me. I hit the bag twice a week, and did some running. Then my father got killed, and I was left with anger issues. That's when I really started boxing. I got addicted to it, and now I do it just for fun.

 

for me, just like some of the other guys, i like the thought of being powerful. It could be too many movies or videogames but i like the idea of being strong and able to handle yourself.
I took up karate in 2002 and trained for 4 years. Im tall for my weight (6 ft 2, 167lbs) so karate was great for me because kicks are used so much. One my first martial arts tournament which had about 20 competitors from different clubs. And I thought that I was unstoppable. A "Fight Club" was arranged by some school guys and i was the first person to be chosen to fight. We had gloves on though, hands only. I was put up against a fat guy who wasnt quite as tall as me, and i got slaughtered, completely smashed.
From that i realised that martial arts, although its good for fitness will do nothing in helping you fist fight. So after a few months i gave that up and just started to do some boxing sparing with friends.
Although i dont go to a gym i do alot of sparing both boxing and MMA.
I love boxing because of the feeling of strength and power, because of the challenge, the thought that every bit of training helps and because i like putting everything i have against everything my opposition has.
Ive got my first unofficial MMA fight coming up in 2 weeks against a 209lb bouncer (42 lbs more than me). Ive been training hard for that and i see this as the ultimate challenge of pride and power.


and rocky played a big part!

 

Well I still have yet to pick out a gym/trainer but ill answer this one anyways. I have gotten obsessed with boxing really for two main reasons. One is to be able to protect myself/family/friends. I found out that all the weightlifting I used to do just didn't translate to fighting ability when I was jumped and beaten pretty badly. My other reason is because my dad and grandpa were both gold glovers so once I wanted to learn how to actually defend myself (not just push weight around) boxing was the first natural thing I turned to. I have since gained huge respect for it because it involves your entire body; physically AND mentally. Awesome thread

 

I like hurting people...

 

I need it to protect me from the aliens.

 

Cause I like the sport, I just enjoy doing it alot.