Boxers who had rough upbringing

[SkillspayBills]

How can you even compare B-hop and Tyson to Miranda or Ouma....Comparing a dude who was forced to kill over someone who made a choice to commit armed robbery... The worst ****** in the United States is a paradise to someone living in third world conditions.

Am I missing something here? Seems like you are pulling teeth to start an argument or just because you are already mad at something. I didn't compare anything budd, I was listing off some bad upbringings in boxing, which all 4 were pretty bad, wish some much worse than others of course, but none good nonetheless.

[Tokez]

Marvin Hagler

[Panamaniac]

Roberto Duran Samaniego

The fighter whose image is my avatar, was born in Guararé, a small town in the Los Santos province of Panama, but spent much of his childhood and youth in the El Chorrillo district, a slum in the city whose image appears at the bottom of my signature.

"Cholo" as nicknamed by his homies in El Chorrillo, was abandoned by his father at an early age and had to fend for himself as a shoeshine boy, newspaper vendor and two-bit hustler to help support his mother and siblings.

He often had to fight bigger boys to keep them from strong-arming his keep away from him. It is on the mean streets of Panama City were he learned to fight for survival, thereby cultivating that animal rage and killer instinct he brought to the ring.

You need only watch the maulings of Ken Buchanan, Sugar Ray Leonard and Davey Moore to see the very essence of Roberto Durán...

[ferocity]

Oscar Delahoya was from gangland, East Los Angels and he was poor. How he stayed away from gangs can only be attributed to boxing and his dad pushing him to the gym.

Other boxers that i know had rough upbringing were....

Jesus Chavez
Johhny Tapia
Fernando Vargas
Julion Letterlough r.i.p
Ricardo Mayorga
Michael Carbajal
Dwiaght Mcquie mispelled name cruiserweight champion back in the day

[Azteca]

Rough fighters tend to be tougher, and fight more with pride then there heads. Qawi, Vargas, Mayorga, Chavez, list goes on and on.

Having said that, the number one factor with boxers is athleticism. If you got it, you'll be good.

[Fox McCloud]

Jermain Taylor, father left when he was five and he had to take care of all his sisters while his mom worked two jobs.

You do know that we could go ALL DAY about bad upbringings and boxing.

Don't forget the fact that his uncle gatted his grandmother. Taylor had a ****ty life.

[yidish pugilist]

<<< Barney Ross

"The Rasofsky family later moved from New York to the Maxwell Street ****** of Chicago, which at the time was a ***ish ******. The young Beryl Rasofsky grew up on Chicago's mean streets, ignoring his beloved father's admonition that ***s do not fight back.

"'Let the atheists be the fighters,'" Ross later recalled being told by his father. "'The trumbeniks, the murderers - we are the scholars.'" Ross' ambition in life was to become a ***ish teacher and a Talmudic scholar, but his life was changed forever when, at the age of 13, his father was shot dead resisting a robbery at his small grocery. Prostrate from grief, his mother Sarah suffered a nervous breakdown and his younger siblings -- Ida, Sam and George -- were placed in an orphanage. Barney and his brothers Maurice and Benjamin were left to their own devices.

In the wake of the tragedy, Beryl became vindictive towards everything and turned his back on the orthodox religion of his father. He began running around with local toughs (including another wayward ***ish ****** kid, the future Jack Ruby), developing into a street brawler, thief and money runner; for a time he was even employed by Al Capone."