Raheem & The MYTH About Philly Fighters

First...let me say "YOU TOLD ME SO" to those who picked Zahir Raheem to upset Erik Morales. It was a total schooling....& congrats to Zahir Raheem. There is a stereotype/myth about Philly fighters....& that is that they're all warrior-types, brawlers, ready-to-be-brain-damaged cavemen. Damn, I think history, if you examine it, has shown that the majority of prominent Philadelphia fighters were TECHNICIANS. Rahhem is actually more representative of a Philly fighter than Saad Muhammad, Joe Frazier, & Bennie Briscoe were. Raheem, Hopkins, Jeff Chandler, Harold Johnson, Georgie Benton, Willie Monroe, Jimmy Young, Tyrone Everrett, Boogaloo Watts, Meldrick Taylor (for the most part of his career), etc... I have trained in a good amount of gyms here, & can first-hand tell you that pure boxing is stressed, heavily, to the fighters here. A lot of the city's rep as a slugger-factory comes from it's famous gym wars. Yes, those wars take place, but if you witnessed some of them....you'd see that the wars are fought on a very high level in terms of skill. It's just the fact that the city is one of defined neighborhoods, & this creates a ton of inner-city competition & pride. There have been a lot of legendary sluggers to come out of here, but it's really a city devoted to the SWEET SCIENCE.