Fighters who were well educated

Wladimir Klitschko obviously.
Nathan Cleverly has a Maths degree.
Marco Antonio Barrera is a qualified lawyer.
Juan Manuel Marquez is a qualified accountant i think.

 

more around today than back in the "golden age"...bonehugger..i mean bonecrusher..smith had a BA in business from shaw university...i know calvin brock had a degree..but he never really won a title....of course along with wlad vitali...manny has gotten some kind of schooling..but it dont thinks its anything more than some 6 week certification program

 

I think Juan Diaz is a lawyer aswell.

 

Skeeter McClure

 

Nicky Piper is a member of Mensa.

 

Yeah, both Klitschkos are well known to have degrees. I believe Juan Diaz has a J.D. Heavyweight contender Seth Mitchell and fringe(pretty fringe)-contender Chazz Witherspoon both have a college degree. I believe Roland LaStarza had some amount of college experience but I don't think he finished? Prospect Monk Foreman (George III) I believe was strongly advised and guided into college education before becoming a professional fighter. And, just based solely on a hunch, the way Amir Khan speaks, I assume he's got a degree in physics.

 

peter mcneeley had an assoicates in political science from a community college..for some reason i remember one of the announcers saying that for tyson v mcneeley.

 

Tunney was a clever man, can't remember if he had a degree or not.
Billy Soose went to Penn State, was it Soose :huh.
Dan Sherry who fought Benn
Willie Dewitt is a Lawyer

loads more no doubt.

 

Please, someone verify this. I want it to be true, very badly.

Tunney definitely

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was very highly educated.

 

Tunney read a good bit...but had no formal education...as far as just natural smarts, i am sure many fighters had them.

as for mcneeley the wikipedia actually says its a BA degree, but it doesnt have a citation.

 

if you go on many boxers of todays facebook pages you will find that a high percentage have graduated from "The School of Hard Knocks" and "Life University" where some have gotten "PhDs"....most of these holders of Phds seem to have a philsophy that one should "stop snitching"

 

Bobby Czyz also...

 

so he says....no formal education to speak of though.

 

Fun Fact: There actually is a school named Life University. It's a school for chiropractors in GA with a pretty solid rugby program.