What Year Did You Get Into Boxing?

[ballgamessuck]

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.

[PureBoxingCEO]

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.

[-MAKAVELLI-]

always watched it as a kid with my pops and uncle...but the first time i was really excited and couldn't wait had to be in 85...Hagler-Hearns...i was 8yrs old and was still buzzing from the Hamsho fight

[MeiXiang]

Quite recently, actually - 2006 when I was 17.

[MRBOOMER]

2008 jones VS chalzaghe

[Guest]

in 2003 after watchin the mosley de la hoya rematch i was 10....then i started watching all the fights and started following the sport hardcore...when i was 12 i started boxing

[HBGBoxingFan]

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.

[fitefanSHO]

1996 at the age of 11.

Time flies. I was 26, deployed, and Holyfield beat Tyson. wow

[Poet682006]

What exact year did you get into Boxing?

Every1 post!

1973 when I was 5

[P4P Opinion]

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.