How Many people on this board actually BOX ?

[1bad65]

I been boxing for about 3.5 years. I also train in MMA. I've never fought, but I spar alot and have cornered quite a few of our gyms fighters.

[The Texican]

I have a lot of equipment in my garage like heavy bag, speed bag, weights, etc. But I only use them to workout with. I am pretty fundamentally sound though, and I have inspired my nephews to box, a scrappy welterweight and long, tall jr. lightweight ( think a southpaw Tommy Hearns)

[Hitman18]

2 months now. Used to box when I was younger for 9 months. But picked it up just 2 months ago after a few years.

[Nacho_Analstain]

i have been boxin about 3 months,had a few spars and train 3 times a week

[-EX-]

I plan to start soon.

Flyweight champ! lol

[Rudyo]

Been boxing for about 9-10 months.

[ferocity]

Just wondering how many members here are armchair fans (nothing wrong with that, there are many sports i watch from the sideline and never actually do) and how many actually box whether to actually fight or just for the training ?

I ask because of all the PBF hate.

As a boxing fan, sure he can be a ****, you can certaintly take him or leave him.

BUT AS A BOXER, i love watching ever second of him in the ring to learn from his technical adaptability and pure structure. Which boxer can't learn something from his different types of defence ? etc

What you said conserning Floyd can be said about any boxer. Of course because you are specificly a fan of Floyd its easier for you to not critque Floyd.

I used to box, right now just training at home.

[ferocity]

I grew up in a small, rural community in Tennessee that didn't have any boxing facilites; no gym, no trainer, etc. When I was 4 or 5, I remember being introduced to Muhammad Ali via television; he was everywhere it seemed, telling me to brush my teeth, obey my mom and dad, stay in school, and stay away from dope, whatever that was. I can still remember watching him lose the title to Leon Spinks and asking my Dad why he doesn't just knock him out? Ali was invincible to me, you see. My dad shook his head and said, "Old Ali underestimated him."

From these early days in my childhood and exposure to Ali, my love for the sport of boxing was born. In my teen years, my mom found some boxing gloves at a yard sale and got them for me. It wasn't too long before I'd talked all the kids in the neighborhood, or at least many of them, into weekly "matches" of sorts. We had no headgear, no gumshield....and no freakin' idea what we were doing. I watched every single fight I could and with the advent of VCR's, or at least our purchase of one, began taping fight after fight, even if I'd never heard of the guys, just so I could watch and rewatch the tape and try to pick up on how they moved, when they threw punches, etc., etc.

What does all this mean? Does it mean I consider myself an ex- boxer? No. It means I had a love of the game which remains within me to this day. I see boxing for the ugly politcally controlled entity it is, the business it is, the wonderful artistry that is performed on occasion, the sheer unadulterated brutality that it can embody, and I see it on many more symbolic levels as how it is representative of man's struggle and plight in life, itself. Boxing, to me, is a microcosm of the trials and tribulations we all face each and every day and how, if we are to overcome them, we must dig down into our very essences and fight our way out of it.....get our second wind.....roll with the punches....and every other cliche' you could possibly imagine.

One does not need to be or have been a boxer or practice boxing to appreciate this wonderfully naked sport and to express one's views on it or understand what it takes to be a fighter. It is true that it helps because it give incredible insight; but that insight can be gained by talking with any fighter who loves his craft. It takes a special kind of person to be a fighter; but one doesn't have to be actively engaged in the sport to be emotionally connected to it.

Boxing is artistic, scientific, and primal at the same time. There is no purer form of competition and it's sheer naked brutality turns off only those who are afraid to see the "primtive" within.....or, maybe I'm full of it.

Great post, thanks for sharing! The bold part, is what i used to do after the first time i went to the gym. If you remember USA Tuesday Night Fights, sure they had some great fights, but they also had some boring fights -like any network- but i always stayed through the whole show no matter who was fighting or how borring the fight was, i was geared to learn from every and any boxer. I learned a lot too. Messed up thing for me is that i never stuck with boxing when i was younger, it wasn't till i was older that i finally got an amature fight. But through out the years i've been in and out of gyms, meaning i've quite so many times and gone back many times that i lost track of how many times i've quite boxing only to go back again. Thats why i too respect the boxer and for the effort the put into their craft.

[ferocity]

i have been boxin about 3 months,had a few spars and train 3 times a week

My coach used to say a boxer needs to train at least 5 days a week.

[Mishra100]

I'm going to be taking classes at a athletic club... Nothing serious but I get to wrap my hands and hit heavy bags, speed bags, and the hand targets.