Who got you interested in boxing ?

My uncle opened up a gym in the neighborhood, and I've been boxing and a fan of the sport ever since. ________ HOTELS IN MEXICO CITY

1st fight of Manny vs Morales :boxing::notworthy

Benn/Eubank/Watson era. Good times and intense.

tyson back in the 80's. tyson vs spinks was my first pay per view. when tyson come back from prison i never missed a fight.

The Benn/Eubank/Watson era of the late 80/early 90's probably.

I kickbox so it was kind of a natural transition... as well as seeing Oscar De La Hoya fight

I accidentally walked into a boxing gym and ended up talking to the owner of the GYM, he was an old Guy just like Mickey out of the Rocky movies. I was a pretty lost teenager and started training and sparring. I found out a few weeks later that the Trainer used to hang out with my Grandfather and some of my other family when they were younger. Around the time I got into the fight game DLH was fighting Chavez and he was in his prime yet to be beaten.

Gotta be honest Arturo Gatti made me start watching boxing.

Rocky...Balboa that is

The Contender

great pic of vitali. i heard vitali was an excellent swimmer. wlad tried the sport but he always got knocked unconscious when he jumped in the water head first..... lol! pretty funny

A friend of mine from school got me interested. great pic of vitali. i heard vitali was an excellent swimmer. wlad tried the sport but he always got knocked unconscious when he jumped in the water head first.....

i got into MMA, then trained in Muay thai and favored the stand up art a bit more, and now here i am! i like most types of combat sports, but boxing got my #1 interest, MMA is #2.

Rocky 4 lead me to reading boxing history (I'm a history buff). While doing this I came across the epic fights such as Louis vs Schmeling II, the Ali-Frazier trilogy, and ect. Truth is boxing has several memorable heroes and villians (who is which depends on ones opinion), and many great stories. All this combined with my love for fighting it just stuck with me and I became a modern era fan. So in short Rocky Balboa. Good thread btw.

Oscar de la Hoya at the '92 Olympics in Barcelona.

When I was a little boy my dad would take me to go see chavez fight!!!

My brother and Father got me into watching boxing when i was a kid. Ofcourse this was the mid 90's and the only person I watched was Tyson. I was never interested in too many ppl below heavyweight until 3 or 4 years ago. But I became an overall fan of every weightclass myself

A friend of mine from school got me interested.

My grandad. I remember been about 6 or 7 and I was really bored in the house and he put on one of those Boxing videos which had knockouts, people falling over the ropes, people flyin into the arena type videos. from there I became a fan and Naz was always on the tele at the time and become a fan of his at the time. I

as a kid my family would order all the JCC sr fights and thats when I got hooked on boxing. stoped for a bit after I left high school, but got into boxing againg about 4 years ago.