British tennis star Andy Murray has said that nothing gives him an adrenaline rush quite like boxing.
He also said that he did not like to see pugilists who he knew getting hit.
Speaking after watching Ricky Burns, a lightweight from Scotland, and George Groves, the British and Commonwealth super-middleweight champion, clashing in a boxing match, on television in Paris, France, Murray said: “If it is someone I know who is fighting, I never want them to get hit.”
The Daily Mail further quoted him, as saying: “I get so nervous for them that I can’t keep still. I start to shake. I don’t know how their families sit at ringside. When David Haye fought Wladimir Klitschko I had to walk away after two rounds. I got really uncomfortable, almost too into it. I find it very difficult, but nothing gives me an adrenaline rush quite like boxing.”
“Everything in tennis is so neat and nice, but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that. I’ve never fought. I’ve put on gloves, hit the speed bag, the heavy bag, but I’ve never had a go,” said Murray.
“I talk about it all the time, with the guys that I work with. It would be great to get the gear on, get in a ring and do it, create our own fight club,” he added.
On Sunday, the ATP World Tour Finals start in London and Murray hopes to end his campaign on a high.
He is in, arguably, the best form of his career, and has overtaken Roger Federer in the world rankings, moving up to No 3. (ANI)
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