What is the reason you started liking Boxing or why you got in to it

My grandfather was a big boxing fan. Great guy. He used to record all the old Tyson fights on VHS. I still have a gold mine of great fights on VHS, like Duran-Barkley, Leonard-Hearns II, et cet). Lampley was youthful and Larry Merchant was just beginning his gradual descent into drunken senility. A golden era.

As I reached adolescence, my grandfather continued to record HBO and Showtime bouts, and I would still watch them, but sometimes I would fast forward past the boxing to see if the recording ran past midnight and he'd inadvertently recorded late night softcore pornography. This was a dark, dark time in history known as "pre-internet adolescence". I was born in 1983, making me one of the last stages of American males to not have access to a limitless treasure trove of fleshy, depraved trollops. So my boxing acumen was temporarily stunted by my hormones.

In high school I read a book by Robert Lipsyte called The Contender. Outstanding novel. His description of Madison Square Garden during a middleweight fight was captivating, as was the training, self-discipline, and redemption of the narrator. To this day, I find that aspect of boxing incredibly appealing, the solitude and redemption, the forging of a man through self-sacrifice.

However, for years I remained a casual boxing fan - serious perhaps relative to most of my generation, but nowhere near the passion displayed on this board. I was a big Ali fan. I very much enjoyed reading boxing books. But I had many other interests greater than boxing. Even had a stint where I preferred MMA.

For the past couple of years, however, boxing has grown into a true obsession. All other sports have faded to a dull gray. I ****ing love boxing. I love the fusion of technical science with animalistic fury. I love the steely intangibles of Carlos Monzon, I love when flashy guys like Leonard and Ali are forced into the trenches and display their inner warrior. And I love their foils, the men who pushed them towards greatness, Hearns with that pulverizing right hand, Joe Frazier charging forward like a truth machine. Most recently I love how an underdog like Joseito Lopez comes out swinging fearlessly at Ortiz. The dramatic, courageous, narrative aspect of the sport - something that grabbed Hemingway, Mailer, London, and countless other writers. I love the history of the sport, as Liebling wrote, "the Sweet Science is joined onto the past like a man's arm to his shoulder".

I come to this board nearly every day now and some of the posters here leave me utterly humbled - their technical knowledge, sense of history, and eloquence is remarkable.

Boxing is the mother****ing ****, *****.

 

My dad made me a fan of boxing. I was hot-tempered, and had absolutely no discipline at the time.

 

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watching with my dad when I was a kid

 

Dad and Grandfather were big fans and I started watching with them. Plus,my uncle was destroyed in the golden gloves I believe.

 

****, I forgot Hearns, Pryor, Camacho, McClellan, Paz, Mancini, Paez. I could go on forever.

 

Plain & simple. Cassius Clay. --- The Greatest.

 

This^

 

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Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank & Micheal Watson.

Watching them fight as a kid got me started

 

:rofl

Good ****! :good

 

was the ringcard girls walking around inbetween rounds flashing those big ripe tits and sexy rump ass's that got me into boxing, just sat their thinking that i would absolutely destroy them bitches and **** the **** outta them atsch

 

Got into boxing because of my Dad. He was a bare knuckle fighter when he was younger and never liked any other sports. The only sport the grumpy ****er would take me too and pick me up from was boxing so i was sort of forced to go at first, then fell in love with it. Only gave it up 6 years ago when my Manager told me that if i came in with one more mark on my face that wasn't lipstick, he would fire me

 

Rocky

 

Hagler - Hearns.

Beautiful brutality.

 

Two men got me interested in Boxing

Eubank

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Hamed

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Pac would cry if he felt these punches ^^^