My girlfriend asked me a god question the other day.
Why do u like boxing? She then went on to ask, why are u on that silly boxing website everyday, and why do u spend $50 dollars every second sunday to watch 2 guys punch each other? Why do u get up early or stay up late to see resu;ts of fights from overseas?
She made th4e pint that none of my mates particularly like boxing, there are no local fighters of note, and why cant i be normal and just like football like everyone else.
Im sure other guys on here have had similiar questions asked of them, and i hope they came up with better answers than i initially did. Alli could say is i liked boxing cos its 'awesome'.....

It got me to thinking tho. Why am i a boxing fan?
Here is what i come up with. I like watching fights cos it seems like the purist form of battle, two guys using their fists to sort out who the better one is. I like boxing cos of the diversity of characters u see i mean take this for example.
The heavyweight champ is a well educated well spoken 6 ft 7 giant from the Ukraine. The guy everyone wants to see him fight is a self assured, hard hitting londoner, who wouldnt look out of place ina rap video. U could hardly get 2 different ppl.
I love the way u can never be sure who was gonna win in boxing, when both fighters are world class. In just the last six months i was positive Pavlik would beat Hopkins, DLH would beat Pac, and Margarito would destroy old Mosely. Boy was i wrong and i was happy for it.
The lead up to a big fight excites me more than any other event, i get goosebumps when Buffer or any other bigtime ring announcer introduces the combatants and they dont usually go away til there is a clear winner, i like shouting at the tv when the ref misses something, or chewing my nails when one of my favourite fighters is in a close contest.
These are some of the reasons im a boxing tragic and i'd like to hear why some of u other ppl are fans.