What Year Did You Get Into Boxing?

Back when Roy was P4P. I guess I was around 14

I haven't seen an actual biography for either though I believe some of the guys in the History section have at least one on Wilde. Monte Cox has a terrific on-line article on Fitzsimmons, don't know if you've seen it yet :boxing: Poet Got link? Can't seem to find it. Appreciation in advance.

i don't know i have always liked boxing as far as i can remember even when i was five if i seen something to with boxing i had to get it but started boxing for real when i was 10 or 11 and still going

i think it was in 2010 im not sure

I'm guessing you're a Brit? If so, have you read up on Bob Fitzsimmons and Jimmy Wilde? :boxing: Poet Indeed, but only on the net. If you have any book recommendations I'd be glad to hear them.

I dont have a year per se, but I do remember watching Kevin Kelly and Arturo Gatti (RIP) with my pops after my soccer tournaments and games when i was younger.. as young as 10..

It had to be around 86-87 during the Tyson craze. I was about 7yrs old. I can remember my entire family getting together and talking about how fast Tyson was going KO his opponent. I've been hooked ever since.

2004 :boxing:

2007 DLH-Mayweather. A friend I worked with was the first person I knew to have HBO. Growing up I didn't even have cable TV and no friends had HBO or Showtime to give me any boxing exposure. The most I saw before that was old fights of Ali and Tyson on EPSN classic.

I watched the big fights from aged 9/10 after the Tyson-Bruno rematch. Some of my family had gone to Vegas to support Bruno and came back dissapointed, with a fight poster and a t-shirt about eight times too big for me as gifts - I can still wear it today, although it fits like Under Armour! I was really interested to see the fight having heard my relatives discuss Tyson like he was some of monster and they finally got me a copy on VHS (or VCR to Americans). I was completely stunned by Tyson and badgered my Step-Dad to get me more videos, all of which stunned me even more to see an even more vicious, powerful fighter. Obviously as a kid I didn't really have a way of keeping up with boxing like I do today, so I relied on my parents letting me know about big fights and getting me the VHS copy. I drifted away from the sport a little in my early teens. I got into boxing properly back in 2004 aged 16/17 because of Muhammad Ali. I just became fascinated in him as a man as much as a fighter thanks to the fantastic biography 'Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times' by Thomas Hauser. Since then I just became more and more interested in the sport. I'm a bit of a nerd about the things I like, so I can't just follow a sport casually, I have to know nearly everything and it quickly became like that for me with boxing, even to the point where I tried amateur boxing myself for a year.

1996 at the age of 11. :D Time flies. I was 26, deployed, and Holyfield beat Tyson. wow

Back 1996 was when I first remember watching it (Tyson-Holyfield II and De La Hoya-Whitaker are the two fights that stick out in my mind). 2006 at Cotto-Malignaggi was when I really got into it (Went to MSG for Tommy Zbikowski's debut). I've been hooked ever since.

2008 jones VS chalzaghe

Quite recently, actually - 2006 when I was 17.

I saw almost every Tito Trinidad fight when I was a kid with my whole family.. But my interest in boxing came in 2006 since the Cotto-Malignaggi fight.

1994 at the age of 23. I had just gotten out of the service and wasnt working for the first time in my life so I watched a lot of tv for the first time in my life. Most of it was pointless, but I fell in love with the sport of boxing and have been a huge fan ever since.

First big fight I remember seeing was Tyson/Spinks. Read every Ring mag I could get my hands on after that. And they were always like 2 months behind on current events. Had to actually watch the fight, get a copy or SOL. We didn't have Youtube, like some Youtube historians here (Jrosales). Didn't start fighting though until 2002.

Been 'curious' for as long as I can remember, first really got into it in 2008 aged 16. Joe Calzaghe I suppose, and the Hatton-Mayweather fight.

Prob late 80's or early 90's, I can't remember. I was just a young lad back then..

What exact year did you get into Boxing? Every1 post! :boxing: well if you mean following boxing, around 1975 when I was about 9 i guess,my dad was an ex golden glover and watched boxing boxing all the time ,so we watched together.but when i really got into it was at 13 when i started to box some myself,then i really started to follow certain fighters.