How do you start having a passion for boxing?

[KING •]

Sisters boyfriend asked me if he could watch a fight in my room being that my sister and mother were watching some gay **** downstairs. It was a Prince Naseem fight - been hooked ever since.

[supermandathoe]

You got lucky, the first fight you payed attention was Roy Jones at his ABSOLUTE peak.

[THe TRiNiTY]

It started for my love for movies and from my father. I've ALWAYS loved watching movies and I'm relatively young. So, about 12 years ago was the first time I watched Raging Bull. I was born about 6 and a half years after it's original release date, so I ended up watching the movie when I was about 7 or 8. When the movie was about 14 years old, or so. Anyway, the movie got me hooked, mainly due to the fight scenes being SO over-dramatized. But it worked. It also turned me on to Ray Robinson. As a child, it was impressive to hear of some guy fighting the same person so many times and whooping his ass. It impressed me. Lol.

So I learned about great movies, an amazing story, the best sport to ever have existed and the best fighter to ever fight all within the same 2 and a half hours.

I later got into all the little facets of boxing with my father. His love for Chavez started that when I was about 13 or 14 and I have been soaking it up since then. Not just watching the big fights. Watching ANY fights I can.

I've been a fan of boxing for about 13 or 14 years, now.

[Gonzalez_Boxing]

I would always watch the big heavyweight fights from the 80's and also remember a few megafights Duran/Leonard, Arguello/Pryor(remember family members yelling about the bottle), Leonard/Hagler when I was younger. I knew most of the big names, but didn't care for boxing.

I didn't have a passion for it till early to mid 90's when I started doing a little Thai boxing and a gym mate let me borrow some fight tapes to study(Whitaker,Taylor,Nelson). That's when it really clicked and I was hooked ever since. Somewhere around the Trinidad/Campas, Chavez/Randall, Gatti/Patterson, Barrera/McKinney, Delahoya/Molina, Benn/McClellan around that time is when the passion began.

[Shem]

Through my mum. Big fan, I remember she used to watch it in the 80's whilst she was doing her housework. She was a big fan of Muhammad Ali and then later Tyson, Lewis, Benn, Eubank. I became ****** into the sport because of Tyson really. My dad is a fan of mexican fighters. My grandad was a boxer. It's always a big thing when there's a boxing event on in our family.

[CraigM]

I've always enjoyed watching boxing, people like Lewis and Hamed... but the time when i started to really get passionate about boxing was watching Calzaghe vs Lacy.

[beecherhq]

Watching people getting knocked the **** out first attracted me to watching boxing all the other components quickly became a love fairly quickly.

[Sugarj]

I was into martial arts before I got into boxing. My great Grandfather was a pro boxer (champion of north England) but I wasn't all that bothered until I was a teenager in 1995.

It was one Saturday in early February 1995 and I watched Frank Bruno on ITV knock out some bum in one round enroute to getting another title shot. After the fight there was a preview for Benn against McClellan. McClellan was saying how he was going to knock out Benn in one round, how Benn only thought he was a puncher and I thought 'I've got to see that fight next week!'

As we all know how amazing the fight was and how emotionally charged the fighters were..............these guys fought for their lives and McClellan nearly lost his! I was hooked from that point on, no sport, martial art could come close!

The next week after that a guy called Naseem Hamed destroyed some hapless lad called Sergio Liendo, later that year Chris Eubank and Collins tussled, Mike Tyson came back, Roy Jones was at the peak of his powers, De la Hoya was becoming well known, Rid**** Bowe KO'd Holyfield, Naz becomes champ, Bruno becomes champ, Joe Calzaghe hit terrestrial TV! Any wonder I got hooked? 1995 was a good year for boxing!

[Point Blank]

i got my passion for boxing when manny pacquiao entered the ring. now i am a big time nuthugger. if u say bad **** about pacquiao i will have internet wars with you, with passion.


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[PoetryInMotion]

I started watching with my dad and uncle's, they would watch every Julio Cesar Chavez fight and i would sit and watch with them. I was too young to truely love the sport back then, but it never bored me either. As time went by, I slowly became what my dad and uncle's are, a boxing junkie.