I just turned 26 and have been watching boxing for nearly two decades now. I used to go over to my uncles house who lived down the street at a very young age and watch/learn about the sweet science. My dad and uncle were huge fight fans and when they grew up they were best friends with a heavyweight contender named Boone Kirkman. Kirkman was semi successful fighting the likes of George Foreman, Jimmy Ellis...they worshiped Boone and still talk about him to this day, they always argue that Boone would have kicked ass in this era but after reviewing a lot of Boone tapes I have to diagree. So my dad and my uncle got me into this sport a long time ago and I fell in love with it, the very first fight I ever scored was Greg Haugen vs. Vinny Pazienza 1, I am from Seattle so Haugen was a big deal back when I was a little ****.

Anyways I would love to hear how all of you got to be so passionate about this sport, there is nothing I would rather do than watch a good prize fight!

as a kid i loved to see Leonard, Hagler and Hearns...but Tyson is the one who made me a boxing fanatic...

What led you to liking that ***** in your avatar?

What led you to liking that ***** in your avatar?

ok Will Smith aka jack_my_*****, i became a Tito fan after his fight with Yory Boy Campas.... :cool:

ok Will Smith aka jack_my_*****, i became a Tito fan after his fight with Yory Boy Campas.... :cool:

some of his movies are ok
but not al of them

When Evander Holyfield beat Riddick Bowe. Everyone was saying Bowe would stop the old guy but he shocked the world and i feel in love with boxing!

when i was about 8 during a snowday they were rerunning an episode of friday night fights and i enjoyed the roughness

i fought as an amateur and in french and thai kickboxing so obviously that s were my interrest came from.

even now that i m not fighting anymore , i still think that when a fight is great , the mix of brutality , grace , blood and guts is above any other sport.

however i almost stopped watching boxing after seeing rocky V, god that movie sucked

however i almost stopped watching boxing after seeing rocky V, god that movie sucked

loooooooool

i saw some boxing clips of a young tyson just destroying people when i was little, that got me hooked

I was a fighter since I was 10 years old. I remember watching guys in my gym fighting and that really hooked me up with boxing. Also old Duran and Hagler fights. But what made me a hardcore fight fan was the Bowe-Holyfield and Tyson Holyfield fights.

Vitali Klitschko!
Are you with me on this?

I grew up watching Hagler, Hearns, Duran and Sugar Ray. Was first a big middleweight fight fan until Iron Mike came along. But the fight I remember that actually got me hooked forever was the Nunn vs Kalambay first round knockout. I never missed many boxing televised fights after this.

I just turned 26 and have been watching boxing for nearly two decades now. I used to go over to my uncles house who lived down the street at a very young age and watch/learn about the sweet science. My dad and uncle were huge fight fans and when they grew up they were best friends with a heavyweight contender named Boone Kirkman. Kirkman was semi successful fighting the likes of George Foreman, Jimmy Ellis...they worshiped Boone and still talk about him to this day, they always argue that Boone would have kicked ass in this era but after reviewing a lot of Boone tapes I have to diagree. So my dad and my uncle got me into this sport a long time ago and I fell in love with it, the very first fight I ever scored was Greg Haugen vs. Vinny Pazienza 1, I am from Seattle so Haugen was a big deal back when I was a little ****.

Anyways I would love to hear how all of you got to be so passionate about this sport, there is nothing I would rather do than watch a good prize fight!


I am young compared to a lot of people on here (22) i became obsessed with boxing after witnessing the first Holyfield vs. Tyson fight. I was astonished. I had seen boxing before, but not a war like that.

in the early 90's i started watching featherweight boxing, i think the first fight i ever saw was Azumah Nelson. The Professor got me hooked, once i started watching i couldn't stop

oh, i forgot something, also when James toney knocked out Michael Nunn, i still remember that like it was yesterday

I got into a fight with my girlfriend when I was about 13 and I hit her with a hook so hard and this guy at school says, "Wow you look like Joe Frazier." I went to find out who that was and ever since I saw him fight I became a fan of his style. I went to a gym to learn how to box. Got my ass kicked a dozen times and decided to stick to not fighting other guys. I rather watch

I guess i was about 8 the first time i saw Rocky and that did it for me, and since than its been an obsession.

I got hooked when I was a kid watching TV with my Dad, he was a great fan of ALI, and I also became a fan of Ali's....

then after fell in Love with boxing, when came Sugar Ray Leonard, and I could not think of this guy without thinking of Hearns, Duran & Hagler these guys are my favorite...

Roberto Duran vs Sugar Ray Leonard 1....after that, I was hooked.

i saw some boxing clips of a young tyson just destroying people when i was little, that got me hooked

Tyson got me hooked on boxing also

I first started getting into boxing after watching Rocky IV. My

friends and I put on winter mittens and beat the crap out of

each other! After that my dad bought me The thrilla in Manila

video to show me what boxing really looked like. I was hooked

after that and know I love to watch any kind of boxing,

including Boxeo en estina, even though I dont understand any

Spanish.

When my uncle in Mexico got me my first pair (set) of boxing gloves, I was about 12 or so, as I was fading from the boxing world, the first Morales vs Barrera fight in 1999 help me get back into it,after being a big Barrera fan and seeing him get beat in the fight I became a morales fan over night.

Cocaine got me hooked to boxing. One time me and Pernell Whitaker shared a whole cake together...and I was hooked.

when i was a freshman i wanted to learn how to fight how to be a good street fighter

so i took kickboxin
then i met some guy who was a boxer n he went to a good gym and i went to a crap garbage gym that dun even care bout u n dunno what they doinn
so i always planned to go to his gym so i said i'm only gonna start boxin
ever since that i said **** tha street fightin
i wanna fight in tha ring!
i wanna be a boxer!

then i moved n started goin to a good gym with great fighters n trainers
now that's where i got my dreams from

Cocaine got me hooked to boxing. One time me and Pernell Whitaker shared a whole cake together...and I was hooked.


hahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

After watching SRL, Hearns, Hagler, Duran, Sanchez & Holmes with my dad & uncles.

Early college years, our professors will not come to class 'coz Mike Tyson is fighting. Even saw the MT-Spinks peeping at the school faculty room. :D

My father was a fan of Sugar ray Leonard, and the first fight I've watched was Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Duran. Since then i became a fan.

Muhammad Ali vs Holmes was emotional for me :(

My father is an avid boxing fan until now . . . I stay out late nights watching boxing fights with him . . . so I grew up loving the sports. Ali, Sugar Ray, Hearns, Jesus Cesar Chaves, Hagler, Salvador Sanchez really made me got hook up on the sport.

My dad first told me about it when he said he used to box at little clubs and watch muhammad ali fights on tv all the time. So i started watching some ali figths and i loved him. That was untill i saw ali-frazier I. Since then, I've been a HUGE frazier fan, even though my dad doesnt like his style.

During my grade school days, I used to watch boxing matches on black and white television together with my father and uncles that's when I got hooked with boxing. I really loved watching Ali, Frazier, Ken Norton, Sugar Ray Leonard, Duran, etc. I also didn't pass the Rocky movies of Sly Stallone.

i got hooked on boxing in june of 03...not too long ago ;) my uncle took me to the boxing hall of fame with him in canastota, ny...there on friday june 6th, 2003 at roughly 11pm i met Chris Byrd...from that point on my interest and love for boxing has only grown :cool:

I am going to honest I got completly hooked on Boxing from a video game :D . After playing Knockout Kings 2002 I became very interested in the sport. I started following it and thought to my self why didn't I find this sooner? Then I watched De La Hoya vs. Vargas and loved it. After De La Hoya vs. Vargas I turned into a boxing fanatic. I started ordering PPV's, videos, books, magazines, following it on the internet and watching it HBO. I just wish I could have found out about the sport sooner so I could have seen great fights from the past live. In the two and half years I have watched and followed the sport I have learned alot and hope to continue to learn about the sweet science in the future.

Favorite Fighters
1.)Roy Jones Jr.
2.)Mike Tyson
3.)Floyd Mayweather Jr.
4.)Bernard Hopkins
5.)Muhammad Ali
6.)Sugar Shane Mosley
7.)Sugar Ray Leonard
8.)Zab Judah
9.)Jermain Taylor(my prospect)
10.)Felix Trinidad
11.)James Toney

I would definately have to say Tyson was a huge factor for me. I was awesome watching him box in this prime and like Mayweatherfan a video game also got he hooked except it was Fight Night 2004. Man that is a great game.

Seeing these fights made me a boxing fan:

Ali-Frazier (Thrilla in Manila)
Leonard-Duran 1

Hey, do you have any idea what Boone Kirkman is up to these days? Is he still in the Seattle area? I am trying to contact him for something that I am writing. Anyone who might have any info would be GREATLY appreciated! You can reach me at roldan24@hotmail.com

How Did I Get Into Boxing Welll My Dad Would Always Wach The Fights And I Would Get Into It. The First Boxer I Member Waching Was De La Hoya.

My dad was lightweight champion in the Paratroopers in WW2 so he was and still is a big boxing fan and this rubbed off on me. Plus my grandad smoked himself to death collecting the cigarette cards to send off for the Park Drive (cigarett brand) Book Of Boxing 1973, which I still have. I knew about jack Johnson when I was 8 years old!

Lol

my dad is a huge boxing fan, and i started to watch classic ali fights on tapes, ali-liston, ali-chuvalo, ali-mildenberger, ali-foreman, ali-fraizer. Got into boxing after that, love it when it comes on espn, look for it on the internet, but dont have enough money to keep ordering ppv's.

one of my biggest boxing regrets is that ive never seen hagler hearns, "three rounds of boxing fury" i cant find that damn fight anywhere.
Fight night helped as well

favorite fighters:
Muhammad ALi
Floyd Mayweather
Marvelous Marvin Hagler

My Uncles were HUGE boxing fans and so was my Dad, I apparently watched Frank Bruno on BBC from a very young age, I probably watched him win the ABA's on BBC and many of his early fights but can't really remember anything vividly. I then saw many fights at the Royal Albert Hall when I was a kid with my Uncle but I wasn't all that interested. The first time I Really became interested in boxing was watching Mike Tyson coming through the ranks on Grandstand, then Tyson beat Berbick on ITV and I taped the rest of his fights right upto Bruno 89, I watched Tyson's fights in his prime over and over again and became obsessed. I also took a fancy to Nigel Benn coming through the ranks on ITV, and then fell in love with Chris Eubank after seeing him fight Anthony Logan on a Benn undercard where he stole the show. The first big British fight I saw live on TV was Tyson-Bruno 1, then a couple of months later Benn-Watson was a huge and memorable event. Great stuff, I was definately hooked by 1990.

1. watching James Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson. Even being a Tyson fan, the courage that Douglas displayed in that fight and the way the electricity built as the crowd realized that they might be about to see something historical was great. it was a magical moment to me to see such a huge underdog come out on top.

2. arturo gatti vs. mickey ward I.
up until this fight all i had really been exposed to as far as boxing went was heavyweight championship fights. i never had seen two guys with so much guts and it showed me the side of the sport that i have come to love.

When I was a kid, i would always watch my dads videos of Ali's matches.. My dad had every Ali fight and I watched them all. And now I'm obssesed with boxing now.

When I was a kid, i would always watch my dads videos of Ali's matches.. My dad had every Ali fight and I watched them all. And now I'm obssesed with boxing now.


Ali vs. Liston I is a lesson every boxing fan should learn.


sometimes i think about the years that Ali lost and it makes me sick to my stomach. period.

May God Bless Muhammad Ali after his death for he has given so much of himself to you and i.

first time i saw joe frazier fight, the rest is history

I saw Evander Holyfield knock Mike Tyson out, saw the people around me flipping out, fell in love with the sport

I just turned 26 and have been watching boxing for nearly two decades now. I used to go over to my uncles house who lived down the street at a very young age and watch/learn about the sweet science. My dad and uncle were huge fight fans and when they grew up they were best friends with a heavyweight contender named Boone Kirkman. Kirkman was semi successful fighting the likes of George Foreman, Jimmy Ellis...they worshiped Boone and still talk about him to this day, they always argue that Boone would have kicked ass in this era but after reviewing a lot of Boone tapes I have to diagree. So my dad and my uncle got me into this sport a long time ago and I fell in love with it, the very first fight I ever scored was Greg Haugen vs. Vinny Pazienza 1, I am from Seattle so Haugen was a big deal back when I was a little ****.

Anyways I would love to hear how all of you got to be so passionate about this sport, there is nothing I would rather do than watch a good prize fight!


TO Whom it may concern
I was a big fan of boone Kirkmans I was wondering if you could tell me wheir you got the tapes of his old fights. id love to watch them again. i still think if boone would have got a shot a Ali he would of won. Styles make fights and boone had the style to beat Ali. Would appreciate your help. my email is johnstimac3@comcast.net

john stimac

I believe it was the Gatti ward fights for me.

TO Whom it may concern
I was a big fan of boone Kirkmans I was wondering if you could tell me wheir you got the tapes of his old fights. id love to watch them again. i still think if boone would have got a shot a Ali he would of won. Styles make fights and boone had the style to beat Ali. Would appreciate your help. my email is johnstimac3@comcast.net

john stimac


Hey John,


Did you grow up in Renton? If so where-thats where I was born and raised...I have some of his fights and would love to share them with you but I dont have them n a format where I can emial them to you.

Are you still a fight fan and how the hell old are ya? Fans of Boone Kirkman dont come any younger then 50...not that it matters just flippin ya ****.

Boone beating Ali? Are you my dad?

I was just at a party for my uncle and Boone was there and I was drunk and the first thing I said to him was what was it like when Foreman bumrushed you and threw you down? My dad and my uncle were gonna **** when I said that-apparently it is something Boone still does not like to talk about-or so they said.

I was waisted and disrespectful-I wish I could have said something like, "great victory against Ellis or Machen" no I have to insult him.

I'll have to email you!

Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali - After watching their fights on TV

im 23. Old tape of tyson destroying tomato cans pretty much what made me realize how tough boxing is, and that it's no joke. before that I seriously didnt even think boxing was fun to watch, it looked like a stupid sport to me as a child. people hitting each other with pillows, big deal right? then mcclellan fought benn and when I saw what happened to g-man, i was shocked and realized just how risky the sport is, and that these guys are putting it all on the line here, this is some real ****. from there on, I was hooked

In the early 80's, my uncle was a huge Tyson fan,I was about 7.He use to watch over me when my parents went to work, he forced me to watch.After awhile I just started to love seeing it and now I'm as much, if not more, of a boxing fan than him!

I watched all the Rocky's + boxing history was on BBC and the episode was showing Thrilla in Manilla, Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier got me into boxing :D

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I don't think I have to explain a damn thing.

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I don't think I have to explain a damn thing.


Im a bit confused here spoon...

You got into boxing because you had a love affair with cocaine?

You got into boxing because you were legally dead 6 seperate times?

You got into boxing because you fell in love with Johnny Tapia?

I have to say the first fight I remember watching that made me really like Boxing was Hagler/Leonard in 87.I was like 10 and my dad took me to some place where we watched it on the big screen in like some sort of auditorium......watch Wrestlemania III there too but anyway I was pissed at the result..... being from Boston I was brought up to be a Hagler fan but the sheer emotion and everything that boxing brings had me.I did not keep up with it as much as I would have like but started seriously watching every fight I could get my hands on around 98 and 99 and have been since. :cool: :boxing:

Im a bit confused here spoon...

You got into boxing because you had a love affair with cocaine?

You got into boxing because you were legally dead 6 seperate times?

You got into boxing because you fell in love with Johnny Tapia?

Keep adding reasons and you might hit the nail on the head.

I was just kind of bored one day so I went to the gym and started boxing.

I was a kid, Maybe around 8 or 9, I forgot, and the first fight I saw was Spinks vs. Homes. Everyone was rooting for Homes and I was the only guy that rooted for Spinks to be different. Spinks was my favorite from then on, when everyone was talking Tyson, I said Spinks was better. I watched hagler vs. hearns and Hagler and Marvin became another favorite. I was sad when both of these fighters lost.

I was really ****ing high i had just smoked two fat blunts of some sweet BC Bud the watched the CHAVEZ-TAYLOR fight and i was so impressed with taylors speed anc chavezes power that i became a fan

2 blunts? that mustve been some swag...BC bud I smoked was almost like a job just to share a jernt..

heh, jsut ****in with ya im sure it was that fiya

2 blunts? that mustve been some swag...BC bud I smoked was almost like a job just to share a jernt..

heh, jsut ****in with ya im sure it was that fiya
u gotta agree that BC bud is the best bud in the world....well just imagine how ****ing impressed i was when i saw chavez KO taylor after 2 blunts ahahahahah i was damn man

as a kid i loved to see Leonard, Hagler and Hearns...but Tyson is the one who made me a boxing fanatic...

tyson's rage got me hooked 2

pac did it for me man, ive been a passive fan before pac came and bumrushed the scene

I got into a fight with my girlfriend when I was about 13 and I hit her with a hook so hard and this guy at school says, "Wow you look like Joe Frazier." I went to find out who that was and ever since I saw him fight I became a fan of his style.

You sir are an inspiration.

my father always watched boxing.. he never forced to me to like it like soccer.. i liked watching it on my own.. since i was around 7 or 8 i watched the big names in action.. i was bored one day in the summer(2005) and i watched some fights on showtime replay.. ever since then.. im hooked..

my friends dad would always throw a party when the big fights used to be on national TV in the early 80's. so i was influenced by watching the mega fights of that era. then my friends and i would box in the front yard for fun. it end up like a tournament with all the neighborhood kids. that lasted for a few weeks, but after that all settled we would box to settle our differences.

i was like a little chris byrd and no one wanted to fight me because they couldn't hit me. even the older kids were like, " he doesn't stand still, he's always moving he fights on the move." that pissed a lot of people off, but everyone was bigger than me so i had no choice but to give a little shake and bake.
and from then on i always watched boxing.

but not till i was 11 or 12 is when i started to follow boxing and learning all that i could about the sport.

i moved to vegas from long beach at 17yrs old and got to check out all sorts of gyms out here when i first moved and got to really know things inside the ring and out. i also got to see the business side at a young age and i found out then that most of the fighting and some of the harder fighting was done on the outside of the ring instead of inside.

now i'm totally obsessed. i'm just lucky that i can write about it and have two outlets for my opinions about boxing here at boxingscene.com and docsports.com/boxing............

history in the making, one day at a time.................

My first real boxing experience was Ricardo Mayorga KO 3 Vernon Forrest, but watching the brillance of Roy Jones Jr. made me a hardcore fan.

I believe it was the Gatti ward fights for me.

That is my first boxing match I ever seen it was about 1 1/2 year ago.

Here is something funny and a bit embarssing. I got hooked into boxing by watching a japanese anime " Hajime Ippo" about a school kid who got bullied turned to pro. There was few episode that i seen and got love with the anime and the i couldnt find any anime so a started reading the manga til i they was any update in that site. I wanted more of this stuff so i started seening real boxing and downloading boxing video.

Tyson vicious attacks is the reason why im hook with boxing

I started out with Muay Thai, something I always wanted to do and finally got to do it... its still Muay Thai.

I started sparring a year after I began training, and watched Ramon Dekker's videos (the guy is one of the best kickboxers), and started watching videos of Tyson, Ali, Hagler, Mayweather and eventually Pacquiao (my favourite boxer who is still fighting).

in my personal training I just focus on boxing techniques first before moving to making use of the arsenal of Muay Thai (elbows knees and kicks). But I love to watch boxing fights... I should have got cable TV, so I can keep up to date with the fights.

loved watching fights when i was a kid, it just grew from there.

I always watched boxing with my dad, fights like bowe v holyfield. Then i saw gatti v ward 1, and i started to get more interested but for me the turnin point for my obsession was the destruction of gatti by mayweather...It was poetry!

when i moved out to cali when i was 12. i moved in w/ some friends of my family, long story. anyway, they were a mexican family and Ramon Perez, the father of the family fought on a couple of undercards for a great mexican champ by the name of Jose Becerra - i saw some old clippings of him in his trunks and posing for the camera and the more i asked, the more he'd tell me and i eventually got hooked, big time. since i wasn't his kid, it was weird how close it brought us, to the point that his biological kids started to resent me a bit, well i ultimately became like a son to Ramon and a sibling to his kids. being puerto rican it made the whole pr/mexican rivalry all the more great, w/ a mutual respect that lacks on these boards.

well the more perez told me, the more he remembered, and reminisced and not before long he's getting his entire family together on saturday nights and were all watching the fights together. i'm back in DC now, and just turned 26 and the guys basically my dad so we speak frequently about life, boxing and somehow always make it relative.

man i miss perez.

well after i learned about his career and becerra, i was introduced to el leon de culiacan and after that, tito.

the greatest fight that we watched together, where we like all lost our heads ... was the barrera/hamed fight, i'll never forget that fight.

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I don't think I have to explain a damn thing.

i feel u on that dude.