Fighters that went from troubled youths to successful boxers?

[MRBOOMER]

Jermain Taylor wasn't broke as a child neither was Ali

[MRBOOMER]

On topic Whitaker had a pretty roughy childhood I was talking to my pops he said sweet pea was from a pretty ghetto slum in va where we used to stay.

[rorymac]

Uhhhh...
most of them
to make the sacrifices a great boxer must make it helps to come from nothing and have nothing to lose


matt franklin came from foster homes (later became matt saad muhammad, one of the best lightheavyweights ever)

erik morales was born in al norte, one of the toughest barrios in mexico

joe frazier was the son of a sharecropper

manny pacquiao had to eat a pet because his family was starving when he was a boy

mike tyson was an all purpose thug, crook, and stick up kid in brownsville brooklyn

so was bernard hopkins (and he endured a lengthy tenure in prison)

devon alexander (it still burns, evidently,) was from one of the roughest neighborhoods in st louis. his brother is in prison, and most of his friends from his childhood are dead

brandon ríos clearly needed the gym from keeping him from being in idiot in kansas in his youth (by his own admission, without boxing he would just be "some ****up, somewhere."

could continue, but i'll make sure not to take up all the good examples

I'm probably wrong but weren't Morales' parents doctors? No I must be thinking of Barrera. Stupid me

[Cloud]

Victor Ortiz
Antonio Margarito
Juan Diaz
Kostya Tszyu

(got those from a list on an other site).

EDIT - One i thought of....Dwight Muhammed Qawi? I know he was in prison but im not sure if he had a really bad youth.

EDIT II - Looking at some articles, Qawi did have a trouble youth.