which boxer actually made you wanna start up boxing...like made you go to a gym and workout to become like them...

for me it was Evander Hoylfield

Wooo This is a good one... I would have to say Barrera.. That dude is the man. A good role model....

Yeah, good topic!

For me it was seeing Ayub Kalule win the WBA light middleweight title in 1979, when I was 7 years old (Kalule was from Uganda, but his manager was Mikkel Kessler's manager Mogens Palle). From that moment on I just loved boxing. :)

The Rocky films first got me interested in boxing and I bet I'm not the only one. But for a fighter, it's probably Lennox Lewis.

He was my first boxing idol.

Hasim Rahman winning the world title and capping off a string of excellent sporting accomplishments in Baltimore.

Muhammad ali planted the seed. Id watch old ali fights if i saw them but only his and very rarely. Then marciano cought my eye. I Watched a marathon of his fights and i was so excited i had to find out more. I became obsessed with muhammad ali and marciano. I began reading biographys watching their fights looking them up online. But i kept noticing that joe louis was talked alot about. So i did a little light research on him. Just an internet search is all. In reading about joe louis i heard of surgar ray robinson. I looked him up on youtube and was amazed. I fipped through the channels on my tv one day and saw the countdown to gati mayweather. I recorded it and i became obsessed with gati. My brother became obsessed with mayweather. it became a feud and still is to this day. When mayweathr won I was embafassed and as a result had to prove that i knew as much about boxing as he did. I looked up boxing online and read about winly wright. After that i became the hard core fan that i am today.

I'd have to say Marvin Hagler and later on (although I'd already fought by this point) Barry McGuigan

I was taken to see Minter v Hagler in 1980 and that was that then I cemented it with McGuigan v Pedroza.

mostley Tommy Morrison

Bernard Hopkins, just the fact that he would always win and was in superiour conditioning... made me wanna be like that too

Muhammad Ali, plain and simple.

Muhammad Ali, Naseem Hamed, Mike Tyson.

Chavez and Tyson both great legends.

Oscar De La Hoya and Arturo Gatti

Nigel Benn, ITV Big Fight live, damn i can even remeber the phil Collins Music, memories.......

Peter Manfredo jr :cool:

roy jones jr.

I think it was probably McGirt or Terry Norris. I used to want to be like Vinny Pazienza growing up. I thought he was a cool guy.

ricky hatton

ricky hatton

no **** lol!


My brother got me into boxing. The boxer who got me into boxing was chris eubank

Ive always wanted to box, but when I attended my first Arturo Gatti fight in Atlantic city, and saw how the crowd loved him and saw how much heart he really gave into a fight it was inspirational to start training

none...........

really? so you just got up one day and said..i wanna fight?

i was expecting tyson :p :)

Andrew Golota and Ricardo Mayorga....still my favorites.

Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, and Jack Dempsey.

tyson... .

roy jones jr

James Toney and Julio Caesar Chavez.

I hope that the people picked these old school fighters Like Ali are not little youngsters because Ali is way back in the days and you would have to be pretty old for Ali to be the boxer that got you into boxing. Unless you did your history and went and downloaded all his fights.

My mother....

Arturo Gatti

Ali, Rocky Marciano, Joe Louis, and Jack Dempsey.

yeah, just thinking about marciano makes me want to get in the ring. the first fight i saw that made me want to fight had azumah nelson in it

Louis and Marciano made me realize that you didn't need to be an ******* to be a great boxer. I read "The Great Black Hope" by Richard Bak and "Biography of a First Son" by Everett Skehan about Louis and Marciano respectively and became instant fans. I also read "King of the World" about Ali.

I had watched boxing a little at the time, but was more into martial arts and kung fu movies. Reading these books, I began to have serious respect for boxers as individuals as well as for the sport itself. I think that's when the "boxing bug" bit me, reading about Louis and Marciano and getting their fights on VHS and watching them over and over while shadowboxing and imagining what it would be like to fight in front of thousands of people. I was maybe 14-15 at this time.

Then I joined a local boxing gym and started watching any fight I could see. Went to live local boxing matches. Fell in love with the sport.

The Klitschko Bros. Growing up seeing their fights from Germany in Ukraine while they where coming up, seeing my contries flag waved in a foreign country made me proud, and from there on I became interested in the sport.

Felix Trinidad. dude was exciting

im filipino so...manny pacquiao... oh and also... fight night 2004 lol, oh and uh... that one guy lol i forgot his name...oh ricky hatton, there you go

Rocky Marciano, Jake LaMotta, and Bernard Hopkins.

Tyson, sometimes I'd hate to admit it. He was my idol in the 80's Holyfield, Bowe and Lewis kept me though. But Tyson inspired me, **** my style is a Tyson knock off.

**** my style is a Tyson knock off.

Not that thats a bad thing.

i think the other day i said tyson and he did make me want to box but acctully it was when i was about 13 and i got a dvd collection of oscar dlh that a started really get exited about boxing

Roy Jones Jnr., Barrera and B-Hop.

barrera and nasseem hamed, i remember admiring naz cuz he just looked crazy and original in the ring, and barrera cuz he was disciplined and seemed tougher.

Mike Tyson and Nigel Benn.

Loved watching Tyson coming through the ranks on Grandstand and Benn blasting everybody in the amateurs, then both of them as pro's on ITV.

My mate, an Calzaghe after the Lacy fight

Muhammad Ali got me into boxing

my entire family loves Lennox lewis...even my dad who HATES boxing. He's pretty much the reason i started...but the reason i continue boxing are the people who are in the gym...they're my inspiration.

My dad got me into boxing, he was national /ussr champ n boxing pro turned trainer

Felix Tito Trinidad..

That man is incredible.

Mighty Mike Anchondo.. former WBO champ...and plus I sort of personally know him.

the rockymovies made me interrrested in the sport but my all time hero is joe frazier

i used to watch all of tysons fights when i was a kid and he made me fall in love with da sport the way he destroyed everyone so i got started plus my dad was a fighter and my bro is a fighter now too.

Rocky Balboa, Sugar Ray Leonard, Ray Mancini, Tyson, Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward.