The Popular Perception and Legacy of David Tua

Go and fvck yourself you attention seeking lump of ****.

Nobody gives a fvck about your romanticising Tua dick riding garbage. So shove it as far up your rectum as it can possibly go.

You were either born moronic, or you have worked very hard to achieve it. Anyone who could write such nonsense as " an 8 year old boy was forced to fight men 2 or 3 times his age " and believe it, must consider incest, as being a natural state of affairs.

Slither back into your pond.

 

he said 3 times..sparring with 24year olds when he was 8

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http://www.ajdugger.com/forum.html GO TO WEBSITE,CLICK: BOXING,CLICK: My interview with John Cameron, author of new Rocky Marciano book. NINE MINUTES IN STATES: MARCIANO IS 5'9". I guess they lied about height being 5'11" cuz it's close to six feet,a more "normal" height.

 

Pacific Islanders (Samoa,Tonga,Fiji) were warriors and certainly love physical combat but excel mostly in the team sports of rugby or American football. Even with coaches/trainers/cornermen fighters are essentially alone when they go out in the ring and if plan A goes south they need to readjust in real time. If Tua was never really and truly a fighter in his blood I don't think he could have created any body of work at all. if his father pushed him into something he didn't want, he would have found a way out.
For me his legacy is that his is by a mile, the best islander to lace gloves and a respected and fierce puncher who came up a little short (!) when it came to the big one.
If Ruiz is a champion Tua is too.

 

Right, lets get a few FACTS here from Tua's 1996 interview at the Holiday Inn, New London Connecticut, with Gavin Evans.

" He was raised on the tiny Western Samoan island of Faleatiu as a member of a community of 300. His father Tuavale Mafaufau ran a convenience store and small holding which earned enough to keep his 9 children in good health. But he always harboured ambitions of making it in the ring, and when this failed he imposed the burden on his 5 sons. Tuavale taught David to box at the age of 8, AND 3 YEARS LATER began to select men off the street to SPAR with the lad."

" If they won, they'd be given a loaf of bread, and I would be given the strap, so I tried to avoid those SPARRING sessions "

" When he was 12 his parents and 4 siblings moved to Auckland in the hope of earning more money with the rest of the children remaining behind. Tua joined them a few months later in the winter of 1984, and discovered that the island home had been exchanged for a small, cold government flat shared with another family."

After a YEAR WHEN he was 13 his father ordered him to join a boxing club because " I was hanging out with the wrong crowd, and doing the wrong things. But the boxing separated me from the trouble, along with the loving, and caring from my parents."

" With his sharp eye, quick reflexes, and surprising speed he excelled at sport, playing in the trials for the N.Z secondary schools national rugby team, rugby league out of season, and also representing his school at hockey, and cricket. YOU CAN REFER TO ME AS A SPORTS FANATIC he says with an eager nod."

" I LOVE sports, particularly rugby. I'm not bragging but I used to be devastating on the field. I played second five eight ( centre ) and when the team was in trouble, say on our own 22 line when the only choice for the guy with the ball was to kick, I'd say don't kick the ball! and because the guys were scared of me they would throw the ball out and I'd run it."

The individualistic streak was directed mainly through boxing. He won the national junior Heavyweight title at 15, even though he was only a Middleweight, and became the youngest boxer ever to win the Senior title A YEAR LATER.

Now if anyone ( particularly SKS ) is moronic enough to interpret the above, as a guy who was forced into boxing against his will, and made to fight grown men at 8 years of age, then thats their fvcking problem.

 

I could care less what you found, or didn't find on any news archive. Neither do I care about your worthless moronic opinion about how hard David Tua's introduction to boxing was, along with his 4 brothers.

Like I said my post was quoted for from an interview given to Gavin Evans by Tua in 1996 during the build up to his fight with David Izon.

You will have noticed I didn't ask you for a reliable source for the garbage you wrote in the opening post, because it was obviously palpable nonsense.

If on the other hand you want to read for yourself the above quoted interview, you might start by researching Gavin Evans, and delve through his life's work, and discover in which book, magazine, blog or whichever it was written.

I have no intention of helping you.

 

maybe poor old Tua should have started at an even earlier age , then he may have had a better chance against real men like Ike and Lewis