How did you get into boxing?

[bigcursedawg]

My dad was a casual fan and took me to a few pro fights when I was in elementary school. And when I was around the same age we had 2 champs from Albuquerque where I grew up. Johnny Tapia and Danny Romero were both champs and the two biggest sports figures out of New Mexico. Bob Foster was also a good fighter from Albuquerque. It used to have a big boxing scene, but now it's been weak for some time. I started to really follow boxing around 2004-2005 after watching the first Marquez Pacquiao fight and the first Corrales Castillo fight.

[Mr. Philadel]

born and raised in Philly..so its like second nature to like a good scrap....ever since I can remember there was ALWAYS a fight on TV in my house....I was a daddy's boy so I was always hanging around my dad...just so happens he was a huge fight fan....also I used to go with my dad to the Blue Horizon sometimes and thats when I REALLY fell in love with the sport....I was about 11 or 12 when I started to REALLY follow the sport

[$Full Clip$]

Felix Trindad vs Pernell Whitaker. I watched that and instantly had to see more.

[HBGBoxingFan]

It was in the mid 90's. I was 7 years old and would watch all the Tyson fights at my aunt's house on the black box. Once the black boxes become obsolete, I didn't really follow boxing that much, until I went to see Tommy Z. make his debut at MSG on the Cotto-Malignaggi undercard (Big ND fan). It was the night before the Puerto Rican Day Parade, atomosphere was sick.

Even if you aren't a fan of boxing, attending a fight at MSG is something that must be on your bucket list, if your fan of sports IMO.

[Biolink]

Father got me into it. He's a big boxing fan. Used to watch a lot of Sugar Shane and Prince Naseem growing up.

[Squizz]

I was interested in seeing Mike Tyson after he got out of jail. I watched some of his fights. But the fight that REALLY got me, was the first Holyfield fight. Everybody had written Holyfield off, but he showed tremendous heart and courage to beat the seemingly unstoppable Tyson.

Holyfield's bravery won me over. And if you ask me, Holyfield/Tyson is still a very entertaining/dramatic fight. I was hooked after that.

I was about 12 years old.

[Clyde Barrow]

My father loves boxing. As a boy it just grew on me after watching so many fights with him on the old betamax.

[mathed]

Always watched the Tyson fights when I was a kid then it was RJJ fights on HBO. Really started following the sport about 5 years ago.....now I record almost every fight on TV and have over 1000 DVD's or about 3000 fights.

[S.G.]

My dad and grandad are both boxing fans, so it was just always the co-sport of choice in our household (along with the obvious football (soccer)). I coincidentally found that a lot of my favourite fiction as a teenager, e.g. The Black Dahlia and Raging Bull, glamourised the sport which helped to convert me from a casual fan to a bona fide boxing nut.

[Weebler I]

It was free-to-air on terrestrial tv in the UK when growing up, there were only 4 channels so 'The Big Fight Live' was quite an event. Just followed it from there.