How did you get into boxing?

[Jay Volcano]

Watching Tyson wiping the floor with his opponents. His fights got me into boxing.

[VERSION1 (V1)]

i was seven when i got into boxing my uncle had lots of tapes of old fights

[jijthejungleboy]

2 words MUHAMMAD ALI

[5burowz]

ABC Wide World of Sports in the 80's

[JourneymanUK]

Got into it because of my father. He loved watching heavyweight actions during the 90's on telly when we were still little kids. Ali and Holmes fights and their contemporaries were being shown on a regular basis.

Pacquiao's 2007 fight with Barrera (2nd fight) got me back into it. I've been an active fan since.

[McGoorty]

For me, growing up in a "fight town" (Brockton, MA.) led me to be very interested in boxing. I would always read the magazines (KO, Ring, etc..) whenever I could get them. I was just fascinated with all things boxing. The first fight I remember just having to see was the first fight between Leonard and Hearns. A man down the street had the fight showing in his house (and me being only 11) I could not go with my Dad to see it. Growing up, the Middleweight Champion was from my town (Hagler), a former undefeated Heavyweight Champion (Marciano) was from my town, so I just grew up with it all around me.

30 years later, I'm as into boxing as ever.

How about you, how did you get into boxing?

As a tin-lid, it was mostly ALI, there really was no one else, you had to like him, or the Aboriginal kids'd beat yer lights out, but seriously, I loved him as a kid, he was larger than life to anyone my age,....... I suppose Rocky Balboa too, and the fact that every second "WESTERN film had some guy, playin' John L. Sullivan, walkin' in'ter a bar an bellowing "I'll lick any damn SUN- BEECH in-a-this-a-here SAY-LOON", that always had an effect on me that did,.......... Then Fenech came along,......... he started talkin' about Henry Armstrong and others, and his sucess got me really interested,...... AND then I saw Erroll Flynn as "Gentleman Jim", one of the greatest boxing movies,... love that movie !!!!!! and of course the Darcy legend looms large over all Aussies memories, once I saw him on film, and the BASILIO Vs De MARCO II fight,....... well who wouldn't love Boxing after all those memories ?????,..... anybody with barbarian blood, that's who.

[fitefanSHO]

Thanks for resurrecting this one McGoorty, maybe I should repost it in the Boxing History section?

[PunchesNbuncheS]

Im 27 so for me it was watching Tyson beat the living crap out of everyone in the late 80's and early 90's and also watching Chavez brutalize fighters. My father always watched those fights and my uncle boxed a little when he was younger so thats what got me into boxing. Later on it was De La Hoya, everytime he fought the whole family got together and either had a carne asada or ordered some pizzas and just watched him fight.

Good memories!