Fighters who overcame rough beginnings.

We hear a lot about certain fighters with rough upbringings.
Who are the fighters you admire that came from the lowest, had the roughest lives from jump-street, yet they overcame?

1. Johnny Tapia
2. Ann Wolfe
3. Aaron Pryor


Tapia's life was so F'd up, damn, I'll just post a link. SO much hardship from birth. I know people who have tried or committed suicide with going through 1/2 he suffered, yet found the will.

Ann Wolfe. I say I'm not into women's boxing, but I can't deny her story is out of a bad black-xploitation movie. Molested, raped, both parent died before she turned 18 & was homeless living outdoors with 2 kids by 18. Had she not met 'Pops" Damn. Fought her way up to a title shot, won more divisions than any woman and became a trainer for a man, James Kirkland. It was a F'd up road to get there.

Aaron Pryor- typical ghetto upbringing, read he was molested, knew the man who was his father, but wasn't told it until he was 17. Constantly kicked out of home, and when he won most of his amatuer bouts, no one ever showed. I read once where Ali was the first to believe in him..before any family or friends.


While I've heard Floyd had a rough upbringing, it is typical for me and most I know, same for Adrian Broner. Not dismissing what they went through, just measuring others who had it far rougher and didn't turn into braggarts to compensate for what they lacked as kids.

 

Johnny Tapia
http://www.brownpride.com/articles/article.asp?a=35

 

Ann Wolfe
https://www.theringer.com/2017/6/6/16044728/ann-wolfe-wonder-woman-boxing-3f4cf786a9aa

 

I'm wondering if some play that role. As most people who aren't middle class can say the same thing.

Cassius Clay was born with a mother and father -kinda of a church mother, homemaker father worked menial jobs, but they ate. He wasn't molested, wasnt born with junkie parents and wasnt really poor..as what he lacked, so, too did most. In other words back then, most didnt know what poor was, because there was no t.v. to expose it?!

I've read, and forgot between Morales and MAB, one was born in a pretty good household, the other wasnt?

Laila Ali for darn sure, wasn't born suffering in any capacity.