What about the sport of boxing makes you a fan?

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

Two shirtless guys(homoerotic) who put on gloves(cavity search), fight for a belt(high fashion) and at the end get a purse(what type of purse are we talking here)--what's not to love?(well when you say it like that)

[The Fightfan]

I guess like many have posted. It was Teddy Atlas said the only sport were you can't call a timeout and have a substitue come in for you. Also it is the simplest of sports to understand knock the other silly.

[yvonne]

I've been a great boxing fan from when i was a youngster(about 6-7year old)I started taking up boxing as a amateur at me local gym when i was 10 or 11.Im just a great fan of boxing now and will be till the end of time!
what i love about the boxing game is that it's a total art form in its own right.I mean the sweet science of it all is just fantanticphysical and mental skills are always both applied in each round of each fight!It's how all settlements should be sorted out!!!

Boxing is a great ART FORM

[Wayne]

I guess like many have posted. It was Teddy Atlas said the only sport were you can't call a timeout and have a substitue come in for you. Also it is the simplest of sports to understand knock the other silly.

I was thinking about that... what about tag-team boxing? That would be AWESOME!

[Mar]

....there are so many reasons, but most of all "because in boxing you just never, ever know what the outcome will be. No matter how evenly or unevenly matched, anything can always happen.

[TitoFan]

That’s a good question, and I would answer it this way:

1. Drama – I love the electric atmosphere of a championship fight. From the fighter entrances into the ring, to the people going nuts in the stands, to the “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble”, and finally the fight itself, with all the ebb and flow and changes in momentum and all that. And finally, the long-awaited decision (if it gets to that).
2. Man Against Man – There’s no teammates (well… there’s cornermen, but they don’t go in there to fight for you). There’s no one to blame that they dropped the ball or something like that. It’s just you and the other guy. No clubs, no sticks, no weapons… just your gloved fists.
3. National Pride – Face it… few other sports generate as much national pride as boxing. Maybe soccer. But championship boxing, especially between rival countries, is unequaled for excitement among sports.
4. Anything’s Possible – Other sport events turn into routs and are over long before the final bell, whistle, buzzer, etc. In boxing, the end can come at any time, and from any opponent. Weaver-Tate was a great example. Big John Tate had dominated the entire fight, before Mike Weaver KO’ed him with a single right hand in the last round.
5. Changes in Momentum – I love this aspect of boxing. Some of the classics: Leonard-Hearns I, Ali-Frazier III, Corrales-Castillo, among others.

I could go on and on. But I love boxing basically because it’s among the purest of sports. And it has survived the test of time over many, many years. Here’s hoping boxing will be around forever.

[awdleyfuturehalloffamer]

I hated fighting in real life but i always loved boxing. It's a contradiction that i can't explain. I've always been a peacemaker and hated fighting,but if i was getting paid for it like a professional fighter i'd love fighting. Doesn't make sense but if i were to get paid good money for fighting, i'd love fighting. I also have a tremendous killer instinct like a young mike tyson.

[CutMeMick]

Every second of every round of the fights...
When they walk to the ring...
When the bell sounds...
When I would hear "De La Zona Norteeeeeeeeeeeeee" and I would yell it out loud myself.
When I hear "Manos De Piedraaaaaaaa" Duraaaaaan.
When I hear "El Flaco Explosivooooooo" Arguellooooo.

When I'm sitting getting ready to watch a decent matchup on Showtime and I'm there by myself I go grab a drink and something to munch on just casually and I witness Brewster-Lyakhovic.

Or when I'm tunning in to see Wladdy rack up another win then suddenly the ref. is waiving off the fight and Sanders is allover the ring pumpin his fists.

When I was at the door of my grandpas house charging $5 dlls. during JCCs fights in the early 90's and watching him put on master pieces of fights.

When I see I fight that's taking place and I have the opp. to be ringside and witness something I always thought of doing as kid.

I can be here all night...

[Diane]

When I'm sitting getting ready to watch a decent matchup on Showtime and I'm there by myself I go grab a drink and something to munch on just casually and I witness Brewster-Lyakhovic.

I was able to witness this one live!!!! It was my first live fight, because we don't get $hit here in Ohio. Boy, did I get lucky with this one!!! We were all cheering, and standing on our feet for most of the fight. It was great!!

[Manuel "Chubby" Medina]

I like the fact that anything can happen at anytime. one mistake and the your lights could go out. Also i like the when the will and heart of the underdog takes the fighter to a win.

[Trainer Monkey]

Boxing is an imposable sport to get the stink of it off you. I had my first boxing lesson 30 years ago, and follow the sport,and participate in the sport like its religion. When I tried this past year to quit the sport,I only ended up more deeply involved in it.
I tried to quit,now this weekend I'll be in negotiations to buy a breakdown ring so we can do more traveling promotions.
I often rue the fact,that one of the things Im best at in life is inflicting GBH on my fellow man,I was supposed to go to art college and I spend my entire life,one mis placed word away from having to explain why the SOB was asking for it to Mr Policeman

[Spicoli]

It does have a feel of tightly knit comradliness among us the fans and so much individuality as the fighters go inside the ring.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

Actually Vinny Pazienza was also integral in my growing love for the sport as a chil as I used to go watch him fight all the time as a kid... It did start with Hagler Hearns a few years after it happened though... I was mezmorized as a child that a sport like this was "allowed"

[jumpship]

Chris Eubank v Nigel Benn

To put it simply .

[Master]

Boxing skills with Don Curry who he was efficient and flawless, Roy Jones athleticism, Tyson's power, Israel Vasquez heart, Herol Graham defence, Hearns devastation, rivalry of MAB v Morales........