A ****ing good one too according to Wikipedia:
Jackson began boxing around the age of eleven. At fourteen, a neighbor opened a boxing gym for local kids. "When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparing in the gym or selling crack on the strip", he recalled. In the mid 1980s, he competed in the Junior Olympics as an amateur boxer. He recounts, "I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ".
Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Plus there's a Curtis Jackson on Boxrec, but that probably ain't the same guy, right?
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=57103&cat=boxer
I've suddenly got a lot more respect for this guy lol.
He goes by the name Shane Mosely
lmao
But yeah if it's true he won Golden Gloves as well then boy, he could of been a pro boxer. But yeah, music money >>> fight money.
You learn something new everyday.
I think i read somewhere that he also won the newyork golden gloves as a youngster i believe.
I bet he's glad he went into musci though, look how much $$$ he's made lol.