famous boxers that didn't grow up poor

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  1. boxerlove

    boxerlove Guest

    copying this from another forum but interesting:

    Juan Manuel Marquez - Degree in accounting, middle-class
    Marco Antonio Barrera - Law degree, wealthy parents growing up
    Lennox Lewis - Average family in Canada, well spoken boy
    Vitali Klitschko - PHD sports science
    Wladimir Klitschko - PHD sports science
    Muhammad Ali - Middle class

    any more?
     
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  2. dodong

    dodong >>PACQUIAO Full Member

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    all PR fighters.

    i have yet to hear any story to the contrary.
     
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  3. Vergilius

    Vergilius Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Juan Diaz - the Baby Bull is a lawyer too if I remember correctly.
     
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  4. boxerlove

    boxerlove Guest

    all of them weren't poor.
     
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  5. wolfang82

    wolfang82 New Member Full Member

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    Azumah Nelson's father was wealthy.
     
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  6. Vergilius

    Vergilius Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Obviously Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. must make the list.
     
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  7. Lopetego

    Lopetego Guest

    any white british fighter

    any fighter from Holland, Switzerland or Luxembourg, since poor people doesn't exist there
     
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  8. Mctaggert

    Mctaggert Active Member Full Member

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    Muhammad Ali did not grow up poor compared to most black fighters (crap just noticed it's on your list, well if anyone argues it he was NOT poor)
    I would actually argue Lennox Lewis he was kept away from poverty but he was in a poor working class family.
     
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  9. boxerlove

    boxerlove Guest

    I think Lennox was grown up, just average. My relatives, actually live across the road to where he grew up in Canada, his conditions are fine. Even in the 1970's, there's NOTHING dangerous about the area he grew up, it's actually a very nice place to be raised in.

    Lennox just had that something inside him.
     
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  10. travolt

    travolt Trolling the trolls Full Member

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    I'm pretty sure that besides Marquez and Barrera, all the rest were borderline poor.
     
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  11. CRybertt

    CRybertt New Member Full Member

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    ray mancini
     
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  12. captain hook

    captain hook Well-Known Member Full Member

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    oscar
     
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  13. TerryESB

    TerryESB The Final Boss Full Member

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    Corrie Spinks he grew up wealthy. His dad Leon was HW Champion in the 1970's.
     
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  14. TERRYTIBBS

    TERRYTIBBS Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Stupid thread

    no matter how poor you are, there are always people worse off then you.

    also university education does not mean you are middle class, then is a very narrow minded view to have
     
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  15. iWantToLearnEng

    iWantToLearnEng Guest

    Chisoras father is a billionaire from Simbabwe.
     
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