All posters on this forum and there links to boxing?

[lefty]

As a little boy in the late 70's i remember Rocky & Apollo and wet my pants when Clubber Laing appeared in about 1985.

The music, everything about it. I used to drink a raw egg and shadow box around the room in my E.T pyjamas.

I still do this to this day.

Lol,so whats your links with the sport if you're willing to share mate? :)

[Terrrrry]

I'm from Bethnal Green, and spent a lot of time when I was a kid knocking around Repton Boxing Club. Along with, obviously, the York Hall.

Also went to school with Charlie Magri's son and used to chat with Magri himself quite a bit, which also enthused me about the sport a lot.

[forcefraser]

I`ve been mad on boxing ever since I watched Hagler smash Minter to pieces back in 1980. I was only 7 at the time, but I remember it clearly.

Hagler remains my favourite boxer, he was just the meanest, toughest and hardest fighter I`ve ever seen. The way he left the sport was a travesty. Being robbed against Leanord was the final straw for him and it disgusted him into retirement.

[Scrap]

From walking into a gym, many years ago its been my life. Theres been ups and downs, wouldnt change a thing, the good guys far outweigth the Rascals. All Human life is there.

[black panther]

Started watching boxing at 15 on Eurosport and seeing Sugar Shane Mosley batter Shannon Taylor and Adrain Stone sparked my interest. Sugar Shane at his best was special. After that I was hooked, watching all the fights I could get my hands on. Back in the day Eurosport would show some quality German bills (Marcus Beyer, Sven Ottke(yes I know Ottke can be hard to appreciate), the Cedric Kushner "Heavyweight Explosion" bills(some great knockouts) and some well matched French domestic dust ups (Jean Paul Mendy vs Rashid Kanfouah sticks out).

The beeb were showing the Hennessy lads coming up and some big USA bills and Sky had weekly fights,classic fights and Ringside. Soon enough I thought "I could do that" and plucked up the courage to go down my local amateur club at 16 and soon enough got my ass kicked by a 13 year old who had been boxing since he was eight. I stuck at it for about a year though and became half decent - but I was no natural. I just trained my ass off. But once I went to University, the girls, the booze and my rapidly failing eyesight (both my parents wear glasses - effing crappy heritary genes!) meant boxing took a back burner. I've been drifting in and out of boxing gyms ever since. Always kept upto date with the professional scene though.

[banjo]

My dad is a boxing fan and he shared his love of the sport with me at an early age, had a go at boxing myself as I have with other sports but lacked the discipline to ever do anything of note.

[whiskey]

As a little boy in the late 70's i remember Rocky & Apollo and wet my pants when Clubber Laing appeared in about 1985.

The music, everything about it. I used to drink a raw egg and shadow box around the room in my E.T pyjamas.

I still do this to this day.

Lol,so whats your links with the sport if you're willing to share mate? :)

Links?

I trained a lot, but as I was growing up I found girls from school more interesting, especially when combined with a empty shampoo bottle of stolen spirits from my nan's drinks cabinet, consumed quickly before going to the youth club.

Sadly i could only pull that trick off until i was 32 years old and was banned.

But my main role is internet warrior, trend setter and general fashionista.

Men want to be me - and women want to be with me.

Right now im setting up an online store for cuban heels and shoe inserts for fellow short men.

[lefty]

As a little boy in the late 70's i remember Rocky & Apollo and wet my pants when Clubber Laing appeared in about 1985.

The music, everything about it. I used to drink a raw egg and shadow box around the room in my E.T pyjamas.

I still do this to this day.

Lol,so whats your links with the sport if you're willing to share mate? :)

Links?

I trained a lot, but as I was growing up I found girls from school more interesting, especially when combined with a empty shampoo bottle of stolen spirits from my nan's drinks cabinet, consumed quickly before going to the youth club.

Sadly i could only pull that trick off until i was 32 years old and was banned.

But my main role is internet warrior, trend setter and general fashionista.

Men want to be me - and women want to be with me.

Right now im setting up an online store for cuban heels and shoe inserts for fellow short men.

This was supposed to be a serious thread!

[bennie]

I can't remember when I fell in love with boxing; I can't remember when I fell out of love with boxing.

[Glyn Leach]

I can't remember when I fell in love with boxing; I can't remember when I fell out of love with boxing.

PMSL

[Dioufy]

I'm slowly falling out of love with this game, too. Too many bureaucratic decisions robbing us fans of all the big fights. And when they eventually do get signed, there's always a good chance that one guy will pull out.

[jamesmcdonnell]

I can't remember when I fell in love with boxing; I can't remember when I fell out of love with boxing.

I know how you feel.

Too much bullshit. Too much talk. Not enough action.

Most of the big fights are dissapointing too.

[Wake up call]

Boxing has been a saviour to me in some ways.

I left school at 16 after hating school. I was always messing about, being abrupt and getting into trouble. At this time I followed boxing loosely but was a massive Naseem Hamed fan.

With no direction I worked in a job I hated etc etc. When I was about 19 I think I had some kind of crisis and decided I needed knowledge and began reading books I never dreamed of reading before such as the works of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and many of the American beat writers such Jack Keroauc. I even read some of the existentialist works of Albert Camus.

Anyway I decided I wanted to write and spent three years bashing out a 90,000 word novel (which turned out to be a load of shit and was rejected by the handful of agents I sent it to). While I was doing all this reading and writing I continued to read Boxing News religiously and began surfing boxing websites.

In 2007 I realised my literary aspirations were getting me nowhere so I started boxing writing for a bit of fun and the love of the game. You could say I fell lucky because after one article on a crappy website that will remain nameless I was offered the chance to speak to Joe Calzaghe. From there contacts just seemed to fall in my lap. Before the year was out I'd garnered a mammoth contacts book featuring a lot of past and present champions.

In 2008, at the ripe old age of 26, I decided I wanted to take this journalism lark further and applied for a sports journalism degree course at university. One snag, I did have any A levels. However, because of my experience and because I had some financial qualifications (I'd since qualified in other areas and got a better job) I managed to wangle my way in on the basis I could prove my academic promise by producing an essay on the impact of the London 2012 Olympics.

In less than a year I will graduate with a degree in sports journalism and it's all thanks to the love of boxing. If I can keep my grades up this year I should even finish with a first class degree. I've used boxing to do my degree also and must thank the likes of Steve Bunce, Danny Flexen, Clive Bernath, Rendall Munroe, Ian McNeilly, Brendan Ingle, Jane Couch, Laura Saperstein, Anders Gomez, Mickey Vann and Jim Evans for the help, encouragement and information that have given during my studies.

[DavidPayne]

Well done Andy.

[kevo]

I bought Alan Rudkin a pint once.

[JamesH]

Good for you Wake Up Call, great post. I have a feeling we'll see a novel from you yet...

[whiskey]

Wakey is a tremendous worker.

I used to read about 5 of his interviews a week... like a machine !

Hopefully now he's finished eating pot noodles and drinking cider in the student union bar, someone will pay him a chunk of change to do what he loves.

Then in years to come, i can hopefully work for him, polishing his super cars or carry his man-bag, the one he keeps his magic pen inside.

[dondada]

From there contacts just seemed to fall in my lap.

You're doing yourself a disservice here, young Andrew. The harder you work, the luckier you get and all that.

Great post, glad you're sticking at it

[lefty]

Boxing has been a saviour to me in some ways.

I left school at 16 after hating school. I was always messing about, being abrupt and getting into trouble. At this time I followed boxing loosely but was a massive Naseem Hamed fan.

With no direction I worked in a job I hated etc etc. When I was about 19 I think I some kind of crisis and decided I needed knowledge and began reading books I never dreamed of reading before such as the works of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and many of the American beat writers such Jack Keroauc. I even read some of the existentialist works of Albert Camus.

Anyway I decided I wanted to write and spend three years bashing a 90,000 word novel (which turned out to be a load of poop and was rejected by the handful of agents I sent it to). While I was doing all this reading and writing I continued to read Boxing News religiously and began surfing boxing websites.

In 2007 I realised my literary aspirations were getting me nowhere so I started boxing writing for a bit of fun and the love of the game. You could say I fell lucky because after one article on a crappy website that will remain nameless I was offered the chance to speak to Joe Calzaghe. From there contacts just seemed to fall in my lap. Before the year was out I'd garnered a mammoth contacts book featuring a lot of past and present champions.

In 2008, at the ripe old age of 26, I decided I wanted to take this journalism lark further and applied for a sports journalism degree course at university. One snag, I did have an A levels. However, because of my experience and because I had some financial qualifications (I'd since qualified in other areas and got a better job) I managed to wangle my way in on the basis I could prove my academic promise by producing an essay on the impact of the London 2012 Olympics.

In less than a year I will graduate with a degree in sports journalism and it's all thanks to the love of boxing. If I can keep my grades up this year I should even finish with a first class degree. I've used boxing to do my degree also and must thank the likes of Steve Bunce, Danny Flexen, Clive Bernath, Rendall Munroe, Ian McNeilly, Brendan Ingle, Jane Couch, Laura Saperstein, Anders Gomez, Mickey Vann and Jim Evans for the help, encouragement and information that have given during my studies.

Thats a brilliant post!

[Wake up call]

Cheers fellas

[Glyn Leach]

All good wake up, best of luck with it all

[Counter-puncher]

A parallel - remember the buzz in 2005 when we won the Ashes? All because it was on C4 and everyone was loving it. Then the idiots in charge took Murdoch's shilling and loads of people are immediately disenfranchised again.

ian the chronology you imply here is wrong. they had already sold out to Sky before the ashes were won in 2005, i believe, so its not QUITE as bad as it would seem from the above post (won ashes- gave away crown jewels)

i have been following boxing since the McGuigan days.

[dondada]

A parallel - remember the buzz in 2005 when we won the Ashes? All because it was on C4 and everyone was loving it. Then the idiots in charge took Murdoch's shilling and loads of people are immediately disenfranchised again.

ian the chronology you imply here is wrong. they had already sold out to Sky before the ashes were won in 2005, i believe, so its not QUITE as bad as it would seem from the above post (won ashes- gave away crown jewels)

Oh right, I stand corrected. I remember vividly there was a lot of hoo ha after the Ashes about it anyway.

[Counter-puncher]

as far as i recall that was well after the horse had bolted, mate.

[dondada]

as far as i recall that was well after the horse had bolted, mate.

Yeah, you're right, I've checked. 8)

Actually, this generally supports the point I was making. It was on a real high and then the penny dropped that it was going off terrestrial - a real downer.