To break the cycle of violence....

I wanna try to be a little bit philosophical now. Look deeper into the sport of boxing. We all know most boxers came from a troubled background and a crappy childhood. Many of them got beaten as kids and/or abused in one way or the other. Or they were bullied and learned to defend themselves. Then I hear people like Bernard Hopkins say "he became who he is against all odds". He likes to say that he "turned his life around in prison". And that's when I start to think about what is true and what is not true. Did Hopkins really defy the odds? Because a real "winner" is somebody who breaks the cycle of violence. At least in my opinion. Basically Hopkins is killing or trying to kill other human beings now inside a ring. Before prison he was doing the violence "illegally" outside of the ring. Not just Hopkins, so many others: Tyson, Bobby Chacon, Rocky Graziano, Rocky Marciano and many many others who later become "Hall of fame boxers". Society allows violence inside a ring and pays both fighters sometimes lots of money so they try to kill each other. I watch boxing just like all of you. But sometimes I think to myself- "is a guy like Bernard Hopkins really a winner in life?". According to society and the boxing community he probably is a "big winner". But he still carries all that hate and anger inside of him which he has since his youth and tries to focus all his aggression on a (random) opponent inside a squared circle. Legally, not illegally anymore. But in my opinion, violence is still violence. I am not trying to downplay all the discipline, the diet, the struggle a boxer goes through. But there is a big part in me that doesn't believe guys like Bernard Hopkins when they say "I defied the odds".