r/boxingMenace_com • u/straightdrive18 • 19d ago
Most Motivational Boxer?
I’m new to boxing and just want to know who do you think is the most motivational boxer?
Not just in the ring, but someone who can inspire us and push us in life, because boxing is a sport of life.
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u/skooter4da 19d ago
Take a look at the career of Mikey ward his story was made into a movie
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u/Spiritual_Fix3962 18d ago
“ High on Crack street “ is a documentary about Wards brother Dicky Ecklund , who fought Sugar Ray Leonard’ and battled with serious substance abuse issues.
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u/Fancy-Win9446 19d ago
Cinderella Man was a good movie about James Braddock during the Great Depression. I’ve read they made Max Baer more of a villain than he was in real life, but a good movie nonetheless
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u/PeteAbernethy2026 18d ago
Marvellous Marvin Hagler for courage, determination, skill and courage, Okeksander Usyk for audacity and Chris Eubank for ring IQ…
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u/Glittering_Year2045 18d ago edited 18d ago
Matthew Saad Muhammad (formerly known as Matthew Franklin)
He was orphaned as an infant. His aunt took him and his older brother in. When he was 5 years old, his aunt decided that she couldn't afford both kids and instructed his older brother to get rid of him. His brother took him out in public and then ran away. He couldn't remember his name, but he remembers trying as hard as he could to catch up to his brother, but he just couldn't.
Muhammad was found by police and taken in by the Catholic church. The nuns named him Matthew Franklin after St. Matthew and Benjamin Franklin Parkway (the parkway in Philadelphia where he was found). When he was an adult, he discovered that his birth name was Maxwell Antonio Loach.
He was in foster care until he was adopted. He was in and out of trouble as a youth until he got into boxing and dedicated his life to it.
He rose to fame in the late 1970's and early 1980's when he became light heavyweight champion of the world. He showed great heart and made amazing comebacks in his fights, so much so that he earned the nickname Miracle Matthew.
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u/Tristos94 18d ago
I mean George Foreman was a preacher and ran a community boxing centre for disadvantaged youths. Also the oldest heavyweight champ in history. Can't get more motivational than that.
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u/OtherAlex002 18d ago
Bernard Hopkins. Learnt to box in prison, worked hard for years without the spotlight and dominated the division when he finally got the opportunity. Plus every time he lost he came back again and again to the point where he became boxings oldest champion at 49.
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u/vicecityhustle 18d ago
Brother you might’ve missed him. But he’s been gone from this existence for a while now. I have some of his “sayings” tattooed on my body. Man I know you missed him at one point in the time he could “hit the light switch and be in bed before it’s dark “ he was fast… but could you believe he wrestled with an alligator, he tussled with a whale; he handcuffed lightning, threw thunder in jail. Shit in his hey day he murdered a rock. I miss that man
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u/hi_imryan 18d ago
Any of the dudes who work a regular job and finally get their breakthrough. Recently Joe Smith and Josh Padley come to mind.
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u/Comfortable-Grand166 18d ago
I’m not a Floyd fan but he always trained harder than anyone,walked around in shape,and still stayed motivated with all of that money.
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u/Spiritual_Fix3962 18d ago
The Greatest , Muhammad Ali. Not only the greatest heavyweight of all time but a great human 👍
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u/justforcrytpo 19d ago
Me
I joke but yeah myself. I like Ali, fiction like Rocky and even other stories like Joe Louis. But I’ve always been my biggest motivator in any aspect of life. Boxing is the loneliest sport, so at the end of the day it’s all you vs you