Why Do You Box?

[2OSouzaSuarez12]

Today I was asked this question and it really got me thinking. A friend of mine who plays Football and Baseball asked me "Why do you box when you could play other sports and still stay in shape and have competitive competition?" I'm a pretty good athlete but for some reason team sports dont appeal as much as the hard solo work of boxing. Allthough being on a team would be a nice brotherhood, boxing is for me. So why do you all box, and not play other sports?

Aint you the kid who like a week ago said you were gona start boxing?

Dont get carried away thinking your some boxer. Grab a few fights and see if you feel the same again. Then you will know. For a kid who just started i think its too early to say boxing is for me. A lot of people think they like it but when it boils down to it boxing isnt for everyone.

If i have you confused with someone else though please let me know lol.

[2OSouzaSuarez12]

as for why i box:

Because i always use to get in street fights. Always use to get in trouble. Got arrested 3 times and spent a month in Juvenile Hall. Not that long a time but enough to teach me to get m **** together. Not a good relationship wit my parents or anything. My older brother boxed and he took me to the gym. Now i love it. It keeps me out of trouble, in shape, and I love ***in people up lol.

[Toddy]

it wont go 2 the ground tho wen ur really good,he will be the only 1 goin 2 the ground lol

lol if only mate tho take-downs are popular and quick plus they have a surprise factor and end in tears most of the time lol

[Scottie2Hottie]

i just love the mental aspects of the game, all of the little technical nuances, the feints, the footwork, the slipping, the countering; other sports have as many little factors, but in boxing you dont have a team to back you up if youre short in one category or you make a mistake: you gotta answer for everything.

side benefits are staying in shape and hitting people.

[Nacho_Analstain]

lol if only mate tho take-downs are popular and quick plus they have a surprise factor and end in tears most of the time lol

lol yeh true,boxin will help u in the streets in many ways thou,but like u said maybe not as much on the floor lol

[leff]

Well one thing is certain i dont box incase i get into a fight because %90 of fights go to the ground and thats were MMA comes in i use it for fitness awareness and i suppose if i do get into a fight il use it to stay at range

that 90% off fights end on the street aint true, just somthing the gracies like to say

[Rockin']

90% end up on the ground because 98% of the guys dont know how to fight and move.

Put an the average street tough guy against a skilled fighter and the tough guy will be in big trouble.

I have had my share of scraps and I have yet to be taken to the ground. Except for this one **** guy. He jumped me and ended up on top of me punching me in my eye. I locked him up from the down position, crammed my thumb in his eye and rolled over on top of him. I grabbed him by his throat, ****ed my right hand and asked him "If he wants to play motha****a"! He didnt want to anymore.

Rockin'

[Dye]

i grew up with boxing around me always on TV, i guess you could say i grew up fighting with other kids i dont know why but they would always pick fights with me starting from when i was about 3 at the park some kid came up to me and told me to hit him and i did and he fell down crying. I box because it's what i dream about it's what I want to do

[Rockin']

I got into it for a few different reasons. One being that my mother had just divorced my step dad and he loved boxing. I always wanted to make him proud. About 8 years after the divorce he attended my first pro fight and I could see that he was proud of me.

Another was that I had just moved to a new school where most of the kids wore $100 shoes, pants, shirts, ear rings whatever. If they had it it was expensive. So I roll in there not knowing anybody with my rags and no one would talk with me, except this one kid who I became great friends with.

So the first day of the second semester I still dont know anybody hardly and this kid in front of me in english class turns around and telkls me that he can kick my ass, that he is a boxer. I was like really, wheres this gym? The kid tells me to show up that night at the gym, he would pay my membership fee and he would kick my ass. I was just happy to find a gym so I show up and the kid never does. Thats how it all started. Its funny, then in my senior year I was fighting at the Palace and had won a couple of local tournaments and this kids running around bragging to people that he was the one who got me started in boxing.

I was always a tough kid, used to be in fights all the time when I was really little. I found boxing to be a place where I could vent my anger and frustrations with honor. Walk into the gym pissed off about something and leave not even caring about whatever was bothering me anymore. I must add that my mother had remarried and I hated to be around the house with my younger step brothers. My new step dad was a good guy but it was a while before we connected.

Being that I never really had a dad in my life I believe that boxing gave me great alternatives with connecting with male figures who could guide me. Greg Rice was a super guy who trained me from the time that I was 14 until about 19. The man taught me about integrity, honor and class inside of the ring aswell as outside of the carnage. I still carry alot of the life lessons that we spoke of with me to this day.

Why did I get into boxing? Still not sure but man did/do I love it. Nothing compares.

Rockin'

[phallus]

now it's mostly to stay in shape, but i love boxing, i tried lifting weights, it got boring after a while, but i always wanna box. it gets into your blood, just like the HIV