How did you guys start to follow boxing?

[TwistedChimp]

Years ago in the California Youth Authority-Paso I had a Landscape instructor name Tom Ogren. He looks like a huge biker. He use to be professional Boxer decades ago. He is now an author. Anyways I was learning how to put my punches together and throw down. He would put tapes on of fights that were recorded on "the outs" he taught me how to watch Boxing. What this guy is doing and the other reacts. How this ones standing or blocking. The methods used to trick or break down the opponent. That's how I learned what to watch for and what to pay attention to. I used to slap box with this big dude. He really taught me how to keep my hands up. Tom was a good man and caught heat for it from the other guards and Superintendant. When I got out I was referred to the La Habra Boxing Club over in the OC where Maro Mero Paez and Julio Gonzalez R.I.P. trained. Anyways, that was years ago but that is when and how I became in love with the sport.

[..David..]

thats pretty cool man sparring with world champs

yeah bro thats when you realize that this guys are in a whole different dimension of fighting hahaha

[Showtime..]

I got into boxing a month ago hence the new account from the Lucian Bute (fellow Romanian) vs Jean Pascal fight

[Syf]

As a kid in the 80s. Rocky movies, Ray Leonard, and Tyson were the main reasons

This...

my dad got me into boxing. We would watch it whenever it came on.. one fight that was memorable was the one where Foreman became world champ again.

[lizard_man]

My first boxing match that that I ever watched was with my dad when he took me to go watch Tyson holyfield when Tyson bit his ear off. I became a fan watching odlh. Margarito Cotton 1 turned me into a hardcore fan

[lefthook2daliva]

Boxing is a not really a mainstream sport right now as in most friends circle people talk about the nba kobe vs lebron and Kd , football about micheal vick and stuff and If you as them about floyd they say tmt or talk about money.I found boxing through a friend who introduced me into knowing some great fighters.How did you guys start to follow boxing?

Watched ABC Wide World Of Sports w/pops as a kid.

[Queen_Leia]

I went over to my boo apartment to have sex, after we were done boxing happened to be on TV....rolled up an L to watch and been hooked every since.

[tibbar]

Ali shuffle, "Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee", Thrilla in Manila. Ali was so funny and entertaining, he was a Hero, our Hero, He was superman, Can do everything and cannot go wrong. I still remember how painful it was seeing our hero defeated by his sparmate. Inspite of all these years I still cannot make myself call prizefighting as "The Sweet Science", if theres science to it, its far from being sweet, Its brutal, violent, it was fighting to be the last man standing. Until health comes first, too much sweetness overcomes the brutality and violence of the science of the sports, which originally is not even called a sport, it was a way of life.

[soul_survivor]

I grew up watching Tyson, Holy, Oscar, Chavez and co. Got me into the sport and tehn at 10, when I first started boxing, I was hooked.

[removed]

Watched Benn vs McClellan as a kid. Been hooked ever since.