Boxers who had rough upbringing

[Juggernaut]

ponce de leon he had 5 siblings and they died cuz their family was poor

wow, that is terribly sad.

[ИATAS]

a better question might be who has had the most comfortable/healthy upbringings in boxing? You don't ever really hear about a boxer coming from a rich family (unless it's the son of a famous boxer/pro athlete of course).

[Thread Stealer]

a better question might be who has had the most comfortable/healthy upbringings in boxing? You don't ever really hear about a boxer coming from a rich family (unless it's the son of a famous boxer/pro athlete of course).

Marco Antonio Barrera

[revs1227]

nah i saw the documantary on tyson n they said he would help ppl with there grocieries ask 4 a tip n wen they showed him the money he punched them in teh face n took all there money and yes he was 10
yeah alota boxers had it rough not all not gay floyd gay weather lol
id say miranda tyson lammota ouma b-hop are a few i would be on there is i was a boxer mann im made 2 be a boxer my life should be a movie

[ippo]

I think we need to start a thread about boxers who had a comfortable living growing up and were still able to become champions, the only one i can name is Barrera, which i think might actually be harder since if you have money their is no reason to box except for the love and enjoyment of it.The fighters growing up poor have the motivation, and drive because that is the only way out of the situation that some of the richer fighters might not have due to their comfortable living.

[Dorian]

Edison Miranda

"Edison Miranda has been a fighter his entire life. He was abandoned by his family at one month old and spent the rest of his childhood working hard in the plantain and yucca fields of Tumaco on the southern coast of Colombia. By the age of nine, he was living completely on his own, with no parents, sweeping up for a street vendor in the neighboring town of Buenaventura and by the time Edison was 12, he was already working a grown-man's job in construction. Just two years later, he worked as a cattle butcher in Barranquilla"

I dont think you'll find any pro boxer who had it harder than Ouma though. i made a thread on his entire upbringing once. ill find it now.

Agreed. Miranda had the worst situation growing up

[ICEMAN JOHN SCULLY]

A perpetuated MYTH in boxing is that it takes living in strife growing up to be a good fighter and to have killer instinct etc. There have been a lot of good and great boxers who came up NOT on welfare, not from broken homes, not in ******s etc. Name one? How about MUHAMMAD ALI. Two? How about ROY JONES.

Darrin Van Horn was a college student when he won the IBF 154 pound title from inner city born and bred Robert Bam-Bam Hines.Barrera comes from a good background. Mosley, too. Many good boxers do.

[Wiley Hyena]

Needless to say, that Ouma (sp.?) kid is one of the most horrific stories I've ever heard.

[Orange Sneakers]

Christopher Livingstone Eubank had a crazy upbringing, in his early years he was a malnourished baby/toddler in Jamaica who apparently looked like an ephiopian, then inner South East London, his mom left for New York when he was seven and he was left to fend for himself against his older brothers beating the **** out of him, his father worked long hours (when he wasn't drinking, ******** or sleeping around) and he had to walk three miles to and from school every day, lived off bread and eggs, had no central heating or furniture and shared a mattress on the floor with three older brothers who hated him. Then, when he was 14, he lived on the streets for a year and a half. Then, when he was 16, a rat-infested Bronx ****** for four years where he had to keep himself to himself or get killed. He speaks like a Wodehousian white man English gent (wannabe) and has no end of mental disorders.

[revs1227]

Christopher Livingstone Eubank had a crazy upbringing, in his early years he was a malnourished baby/toddler in Jamaica who apparently looked like an ephiopian, then inner South East London, his mom left for New York when he was seven and he was left to fend for himself against his older brothers beating the **** out of him, his father worked long hours (when he wasn't drinking, ******** or sleeping around) and he had to walk three miles to and from school every day, lived off bread and eggs, had no central heating or furniture and shared a mattress on the floor with three older brothers who hated him. Then, when he was 14, he lived on the streets for a year and a half. Then, when he was 16, a rat-infested Bronx ****** for four years where he had to keep himself to himself or get killed. He speaks like a Wodehousian white man English gent (wannabe) and has no end of mental disorders.

jesus christ ^