I've always loved boxing. It's been something that I've always fallen back on. I was born in the year Mike Tyson captured the heavyweight crown as the youngest man to ever do it. I used to watch the Rocky movies religuosly. I always had the most fun pretending I was a boxer as a young rapscallion.
Now boxing sits in this dark place with MMA chipping away at its foothold. Sure there are many fans that will never waver considering MMA to "barbaric". Me? I'm young and I've actually come to enjoy watching MMA it doesn't bother me to see wreslting and BJJ. But I miss the joy I got from watching boxing. MMA fights will never match: cursing up a storm when Lewis Klitschko got stopped, almost coming to tears when Kotsya Tszyu quit against Ricky Hatton, laughing at the insanity during the 10th round of Judah Mayweather. Boxing stirs something up inside me that MMA never will.
Boxing seems to hold the answer to the question I've asked all my life. "What does it mean to be strong?"
I started boxing to find that answer and while I wavered from my search for a while, I'm back with a determination to get my answer. So while I may not care about current fights in the boxing world in the future I will care about my fights... and the world will too.
1 comment:
Hey good luck on your boxing. I too have lost track on HW boxing. I remember Tyson a little. I wonder if he is still boxing. Well I remember Fraizer and I was young when Ali was boxing. It is a hard sport. That pounding to the head can be rough. Are you sure you don't want chess instead?
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