Most importantly fighters in my day knew the most important art in boxing - feinting.
My stuff is direct. Critics have compared my writing style with boxing all the way back to 1978 when my first book of essays appeared: it was compared to Muhammad Ali's style.
Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
There is still boxing, but there's just no money in it anymore. If you went around the world and asked a bunch of people under 20 years old, to name a boxer, I bet they couldn't name one. They'd be able to name a UFC fighter though. When I was younger there was Mike Tyson and we watched everything. I'm not saying its gone, or its going to go, and it could easily be ignited by another fighter, but it's just that idea that UFC is more violent, that desire for more spectacle, has captured people's attention.
I love boxing. I really respect the guys and admire the guys who do it. But, I'm very, very happy with my career as an actor. I made the right choice.
I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.
Boxing is a place where, if you haven't done the training, that's going to be exposed very quickly.
I love the whole world of boxing and the sense of community that exists there.
I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.
It's not one of Bruno's fastest wins... but it's one of them.
There's no question you get caught up in the drama but I always concentrate on whose winning and whose losing that's for sure. That's one thing you can't do in boxing is lose your concentration, watch your mind wander.
Method rules his training, which blends the physical with the mental. How many chess masters put in, prior to an important match, an allotted time daily to bicycling and shadow-boxing, followed by a cold douche and a brisk rub down?
I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.
If I'm playing a fat person, then I actually eat a lot of cakes and as much as I can. If I'm playing a person in shape, then I'll increase my intensity of boxing training. It's really dependent. It kind of allows me to take whatever specific character I want.
Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.
I started boxing late but I've always been a fighter all my life.
I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.
They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.
Boxing remains an important living metaphor of the struggle for equality.
Boxing’s not that straightforward,” said Eldric. “You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.
Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.
I always put my boxing first.
Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.
It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.
Some people that don't see it as palatable, they shouldn't watch boxing.
