Did any fighter have it harder than Carl Froch?

After reading Froch's book, his childhood really didn't seem so bad.

To answer your question...

Victor Ortiz
Antonio Margarito
Joe Frazier

 

Ortiz?

 

Kassim Ouma

Edison Miranda

 

Oh!! Now I get it!


But no...I think Lucian Bute had it harder

 

Kassim "I've lost track of how many people I killed as a child soldier" Ouma.

 

great inspiring story but man if you read boxing books at all, you'll know that this type of childhood is the reg and there are many far worse cases than Froch's

 

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Well nottingham is a crime ridden ghetto but yea sounds like a normal everyday upbringing and cringeworthy.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5006852.stm

 

Ouma
Miranda
Ortiz
Pac


They've all had it way rougher than Froch


Pac's parents cooked his pet dog just so they had something to eat and wouldnt starve. He had to sell stolen cigarettes in the slums of the philippines just to survive and help out his family. I even read that he had to sleep up in a tree whenever it rained to avoid the massive flooding that happens in the Philippines.

Ouma was forced to kill as a child

Miranda was abandoned by his mother as a child. He looked for her for years only to find her and have her turn her back on him.

This is Ortiz's story:

When he was seven years old, Ortiz's mother abandoned his family for a relationship with another man. Shortly thereafter, Ortiz began Boxing at the insistence of his father, an alcoholic who often beat his children following his wife's departure.[16] In an interview Victor said "I hated that lady. I drew her a card once with a little rose on it and I gave it to her. She just threw it down and said 'What do I want that **** for?' That's when I picked up boxing. Then my Dad started screwing up, drinking."[17]
His father also abandoned the family five years after their mother left, which forced Ortiz and his five siblings into the Kansas foster care system. Ortiz was ten years old at the time.[18] When he won the Kansas [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gloves"]Golden Gloves[/ame] championship, he was dealing drugs (ecstasy and marijuana). Then Ortiz saw his image in the newspaper after winning the Golden Gloves and it moved him. "The photo came out all over Kansas and that's when it hit me... I realized that I didn't need to be involved with selling drugs in order to make something of myself. I said screw this. I don't need all this crap or this guilt", Ortiz said. His older sister would become a legal adult in 2002 and moved to Denver, Colorado. Ortiz and his younger brother left Kansas and moved in with her

 

Every fighter who made it out of Colombia/Venezuela/Ghana and so on and so forth?

 

Oumas story just gut wrenching. Seems like a nice guy outta the ring. I think Ouma had it worse. Wasnt there a documentary on him?

 

I would say Miranda, Ouma and B-hop all had it much harder than Froch. Froch's story is typical for a fighter and meek in comparison too those who did stints in prison, were child soldiers (Ouma) or grow up homeless and destitute in the 3rd world.

 

ricardo mayorga......stiill has the scars to prove it.

 

Froch just described the childhood of 90% of kids in the uk. Except most of us don't have ****ing motorbikes.