Did you know 50 cent was a boxer?

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.