What was your first experience with boxing?

[MidnightSpecial]

Mine was when i was about 10 years old.

i snuck into a local boxing match with my brother who was old enough to go.

it was put on by the local casino and it was a bucnh of club fighters

i forget the names but the main event was a pretty good one.

each fighter went down like 2 or 3 times each in 7 rounds and finally one of them one by TKO.

i have been hooked ever since

Edit: in hindsight maybe i was closer to 13 or 14....hell i dont know it was BITD

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Watching Oscar in the olympics.

[GT-R]

Mine was when i was about 10 years old.

i snuck into a local boxing match with my brother who was old enough to go.

it was put on by the local casino and it was a bucnh of club fighters

i forget the names but the main event was a pretty good one.

each fighter went down like 2 or 3 times each in 7 rounds and finally one of them one by TKO.

i have been hooked ever since

Edit: in hindsight maybe i was closer to 13 or 14....hell i dont know it was BITD

does fighting to resolve issues count? or boxing a friend at a racquetball court? if so, i used to fight alot when I was a kid, i kinda grew up similar to mannys slums. ive knocked out a friend few years ago

[MidnightSpecial]

does fighting to resolve issues count? or boxing a friend at a racquetball court? if so, i used to fight alot when I was a kid, i kinda grew up similar to mannys slums. ive knocked out a friend few years ago

i meant like the sport of boxing

me and my brother used to slug it out all the time

and that ******* kid who used to always try and steal my toys

****in hated that guy.....

[CrackYourJaw]

I think I was like 8 or something...

Went to a gym with my cousin, just hanging out there because my uncle was a trainer there or something. We didn't do much, we just hit each other a little and some of the older dudes let us hit them.

After that I never went back to a boxing gym.

LOL.

It didn't really interest me until I started watching when I was like 12 or something.

[American Dream]

nice thread...
first experience was when I saw a tape of my dad fighting Julian Jackson for the WBC title..back in the 80s..
but the the impact came when I was 9 or 10 years old..my dad took me to a fight night charity event with him..I met RJJ/Foreman/SRL/Ronnie Shields/Frazier..all in one night..though I knew who they were..I wasnt a die hard fan..and I researched them via tapes my dad had..and then I became a huge RJJ fan in the 90s along with Pea.

[American Dream]

also and didnt hurt my dad later became a trainer when I was growing up..so its hard not to be influenced by that alone..

[MidnightSpecial]

I think I was like 8 or something...

Went to a gym with my cousin, just hanging out there because my uncle was a trainer there or something. We didn't do much, we just hit each other a little and some of the older dudes let us hit them.

After that I never went back to a boxing gym.

LOL.

It didn't really interest me until I started watching when I was like 12 or something.

man i remember dieing as a kid to get into the boxing ring.

but i was the smart kid in the family so dad refused to let me box.

but he let me play other sports that put my body on the line haha

[F l i c k e r]

I knew about boxing since I was [single-digit] years old. Just never interested in it.

My first taste of boxing was beating my friend in a spar who boxed, with my martial arts. Then the second time we sparred, I got my ass whooped. So, easy enough, I dropped TKD and started flip flopping martial arts. (we sparred with no gloves or protection.)

Then crazy enough, Bernard Hopkins would teach me how to throw a proper punch and a hook but I still wasn't a boxing fan. (which is why I always show love for B-Hop.)

I didn't become a boxing fan until I watched Marciano ktfo Walcott. Which led to me going through archives of boxing and the rest is history.

[MidnightSpecial]

nice thread...
first experience was when I saw a tape of my dad fighting Julian Jackson for the WBC title..back in the 80s..
but the the impact came when I was 9 or 10 years old..my dad took me to a fight night charity event with him..I met RJJ/Foreman/SRL/Ronnie Shields/Frazier..all in one night..though I knew who they were..I wasnt a die hard fan..and I researched them via tapes my dad had..and then I became a huge RJJ fan in the 90s along with Pea.

i would take a stab at who your dad was but Julian Jackson fought for all kinds of titles

thats cool though your dad made it all the way up there