which boxer got u into boxing?

[NJFighter91]

which boxer actually made you wanna start up boxing...like made you go to a gym and workout to become like them...

for me it was Evander Hoylfield

[Undefeated]

Wooo This is a good one... I would have to say Barrera.. That dude is the man. A good role model....

[PunchDrunk]

Yeah, good topic!

For me it was seeing Ayub Kalule win the WBA light middleweight title in 1979, when I was 7 years old (Kalule was from Uganda, but his manager was Mikkel Kessler's manager Mogens Palle). From that moment on I just loved boxing.

[The Raging Bull]

The Rocky films first got me interested in boxing and I bet I'm not the only one. But for a fighter, it's probably Lennox Lewis.

He was my first boxing idol.

[BmoreBrawler]

Hasim Rahman winning the world title and capping off a string of excellent sporting accomplishments in Baltimore.

[ben41193]

Muhammad ali planted the seed. Id watch old ali fights if i saw them but only his and very rarely. Then marciano cought my eye. I Watched a marathon of his fights and i was so excited i had to find out more. I became obsessed with muhammad ali and marciano. I began reading biographys watching their fights looking them up online. But i kept noticing that joe louis was talked alot about. So i did a little light research on him. Just an internet search is all. In reading about joe louis i heard of surgar ray robinson. I looked him up on youtube and was amazed. I fipped through the channels on my tv one day and saw the countdown to gati mayweather. I recorded it and i became obsessed with gati. My brother became obsessed with mayweather. it became a feud and still is to this day. When mayweathr won I was embafassed and as a result had to prove that i knew as much about boxing as he did. I looked up boxing online and read about winly wright. After that i became the hard core fan that i am today.

[MickyHatton]

I'd have to say Marvin Hagler and later on (although I'd already fought by this point) Barry McGuigan

I was taken to see Minter v Hagler in 1980 and that was that then I cemented it with McGuigan v Pedroza.

[Dye]

mostley Tommy Morrison

[Empac]

Bernard Hopkins, just the fact that he would always win and was in superiour conditioning... made me wanna be like that too

[Southpaw Stinger]

Muhammad Ali, plain and simple.