"Do you like getting hit hard?"

[Sweet Dick Willie]

"Of course."

--Gennadiy Golovkin

[Sweet Dick Willie]

Fighters are another species.

Johnny Tapia once said getting hit was the only way he didn't feel the pain.

I love this sport.

[ironbeard]

I don’t mind it. Makes the feel of dropping them more enjoyable.

[Sweet Dick Willie]

Yeah I love it too. Lately been feeling some funnies in my spine from nose punches, that mustn't be good though...

[Expug]

Well. Been a while but it seems like if I felt the damn punch, it means I wasn’t knocked out. So, there’s that…

[margaret thatcher]

richard prior said he once went to a george foreman fight and it looked like george was getting sexually aroused by being punched

[coneye]

Not now but when i was younger i did enjoy it , it gave me a good feeling , even remember has a child my old man would hit me often i'd be 8-9 he'd whack me , i'd just say did'nt hurt , he'd do it harder , and with blobbers in my eys i'd just say does'nt hurt , at around 12 -13 he would'nt slap anymore he'd punch and get the same answer , at 14 he punched , and i punched back , cowardly drunken foook never ever done it again , at 15 , i used to goad him hoping he would do it again so i could give him an hiding but he never did

[apollo creed]

"Of course."

--Gennadiy Golovkin

More likely he understood to hit hard, not to get hit harder.