Fighters that went from troubled youths to successful boxers?

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I'm pretty interested in hearing all the fighters that went from rags to riches. Went from having troubled childhoods to successful boxers. Pretty much meaning fighters who came straight out of jail and into the ring. Any fighters with a criminal record before they became stars in the ring.

Of course the most obvious ones are Bernard Hopkins & Ron Lyle. Even Kendall Holt who made me think of this too begin with because of friday's fight and the background story they did on him.

Who else?

[talip bin osman]

iran barkley...

[Barn]

Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins, George Foreman, Sonny Liston.

[New England]

Uhhhh...
most of them
to make the sacrifices a great boxer must make it helps to come from nothing and have nothing to lose


matt franklin came from foster homes (later became matt saad muhammad, one of the best lightheavyweights ever)

erik morales was born in al norte, one of the toughest barrios in mexico

joe frazier was the son of a sharecropper

manny pacquiao had to eat a pet because his family was starving when he was a boy

mike tyson was an all purpose thug, crook, and stick up kid in brownsville brooklyn

so was bernard hopkins (and he endured a lengthy tenure in prison)

devon alexander (it still burns, evidently,) was from one of the roughest neighborhoods in st louis. his brother is in prison, and most of his friends from his childhood are dead

brandon ríos clearly needed the gym from keeping him from being in idiot in kansas in his youth (by his own admission, without boxing he would just be "some ****up, somewhere."

could continue, but i'll make sure not to take up all the good examples

[Barn]

Roberto Duran had to swim across a river daily for food.

[JAB5239]

Graziano
Ross
LaMotta

[Pastrano]

Roberto Duran had to swim across a river daily for food.

Gtfoh, really?!?

[New England]

Roberto Duran had to swim across a river daily for food.

haha so did i
didn't everybody?

[Barn]

no I had it way worse, oceans and that.

[Barn]

Gtfoh, really?!?

Maybe not "daily" but, he did do it when supplies were getting low.