Boxers who didnt have a rough upbringing?

[beauty]

Sounds like a match made in heaven...

Oooooh, that's terrible.

[Jozee 1280]

people say barrera didnt grow up poor

Actually Barrera did not only just grow up not poor but his family extremely respected in Mexico. It was a huge disapointment that he became a fighter to them. ( I seen it on one of those biography type things) He was actually supposed to go to law school I think his one brother is a lawyer or doctor...Marco had everything and more as a kid.

IMO that makes me respect him a bit more believe it or not because he is fighting for himself and to accomplish what he has and take the punches he has over the years when he did not have to shows he fights for glory..

Something few guys do anymore

[Breakbeat]

Johnny Tapia had it easy......

[-AZZA-]

amir khan had it easy

[adrenaline]

actually yeah MAB came from an upscale family upbringing(for mexico's standards). his father designed movie/tv sets. mab was even fittin to go to law school all paid by his parents before he took on boxing obviously

Yep i heard about that too...MAB supposedly going to Law School. Impressive. So it meant that he had college education bec to be able to enter law school, you should have pre-law studies first. That's admirable. Incidentaly, I heard Cristian Mijares is also planning to go to law school. How true is that? Well hope he'd do that. You know...boxing is not a lifetime career.

[Dynamite76]

Tony Tucker
Bobby Czyz.

[deevel79]

yeah man pac man had it mother Fin hard. living in a Fin box on the side of the road with his lil bro bobby and slangin stolen cigs just to eat!

During the countdown to Pacman/Barrera II, I remember pac saying how his father killed and cooked his pet dog just so they can have something to eat. If that's not poor, then i dont know what is.

[Thread Stealer]

Muhammad Ali 's folks owned their own home in a middleclass neighborhood in Louisville,KY. Poverty was never an issue in the Clay household.

I don't know this for a fact, but I get the sense that the Klischko brothers (Vladimir/Vitali) were well off at and from birth.

Other fighters suspected of not having a "rough up-bronging" are:

• Sugar Ray Leonard
• Oscar De La Hoya
• Joe Calzaghe
• Lennox Lewis

Ali did not grow up poor, but he came from an abusive household. his dad was a drunk and a violent one.

Oscar grew up in the barrios of East LA, hardly an ideal place for a childhood.