Who taught you your boxing knowledge?

[leff]

Myself. None of my relatives or close friends enjoy boxing at all. A handful of years ago I was just flipping through channels and stopped on some classic fights on ESPN... chose to watch them and realized how much I enjoyed it. Everything else I know I learned by reading forums, articles, and watching fights.

same with me, except my trainer has thought me some

[-EX-]

Nobody straight up told me everything but my father and my uncles taught me different things.

[.::EnRiQuE::.]

it's puerto rican tradition to order every ppv event, invite like 20,000,000 people and get glue'd onto the tv

rly?
see, i just steal cable and PPV events
now THAT is puerto rican tradition

[GEOFFHAYES]

I taught myself, the standard of coaching in England in the 80's was horses piss. I watched guys like Nigel Benn (amateur), Rod Douglas (amateur), Mike Tyson, Barry McGuigan and Don Curry in the mid-80's and picked up a lot from that.

I wasn't interested in being straight up like a piece of board and only throwing straight punches, and so I had to study the American fighters then go and practice the moves and punches myself.

[GEOFFHAYES]

When I was heavily into the London amateur circuit I liked watching old fight films and dreamed of being able to feint as well as Jersey Joe Walcott or bob and weave as well as Floyd Patterson. I also felt Nigel Benn had very good technique when he wasn't in wild mode, he could keep his forehead nice and low and his punches were often perfect, his stance often perfect too.