One thing that has irritated me in the sport of boxing since I stopped is I'm really surprised that no one has come along to excite me like me.
I first got into boxing when I was quite young. I was about 12 when I won my first boxing match.
I'm the best heavyweight outside the world champions, and let's not forget that.
I know I have a mandatory with Errol Spence. He's a very talented fighter but not really heard of in the U.K. or even America, but we all know he can fight.
I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.
My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the South - first to New York, then to Philadelphia, where I found opportunity in the form of a PAL gym and my trainer, Yank Durham.
For the birth of one champion, there are many young boxers behind them who had setbacks. In terms of that, I think boxing is very dramatic.
My uncle saw me fight in front of my house and one day he wanted to turn something negative into a positive, so he took me to the gym and I've been there ever since.
In Colorado Springs there's nothing to do but look at the mountains and box.
Boxing is a family tradition. The last five generations down to my dad have been fighters.
My dad loves boxing, so he used to hold up his hands when we were little kids, and we would punch his hands, and he slowly got us little gloves, and little punching bags that he'd always hold for us.
Even as a teenager, I wanted to move up the weights and win belts.
When we first started in Huntington Recreation with John Capobianco, we put four kids in the Golden Gloves finals. We didn't even have a ring. We trained at Stimson Junior High School. They give us the gym three nights a week. We used to box in the gym - no ring, just on the gym floor.
Boxing has been in my blood since I can remember. It comes naturally to me, and I've enjoyed it ever since I started, at the age of six.
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
I was lucky. I had boxing as an out.
I started at a small school in Virginia, and I learned how to wrestle - at least take falls - in a boxing ring.
Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!
I called my training camp Fighter's Heaven
I'm back in Boston. I own an outdoor deck hockey rink, and I own a boxing gym here also.
When I first stepped into the boxing gym, I loved it. I knew it was what I was going to do.
I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
I like running, and I like boxing.
I don't like to run. You will not see me running on a treadmill ever. Ever! I like boxing, though, so if I can go to the gym and box for 30 minutes, I will.
I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion.
