Are you sure? He turned pro at 22 Either way, he thumbed that deep Japanese brother in the eye. I'm not saying it was intentional but truth be told he did joust him in the eye with his thumb and I say that as someone who thinks Abe is an absolutely terrible human being and not only a disgrace to the sport and the good people of Japan but also to our species.
Clinton Woods actually boxed as a teenager but he drifted away from the sport and started living the drink and drugs lifestyle until he knocked it on the head and returned to boxing 'When Clinton Woods turned professional very little was expected of him, but he persevered, mixed with the best, and became a light heavyweight titleholder. Woods was born and brought up in Sheffield, England, and is one of seven children. His introduction to boxing was a curious one. “One Christmas morning my parents were giving presents out, and my brothers were getting football kits, boots, and for some reason I got a boxing bag and a pair of boxing gloves,” Woods told The Ring. “My dad said it was ‘cause I was **** at football [laughs], but I was seven years old.” Sure enough, his father took him to the local boxing gym and from the age of 11 to 15, he had somewhere in the region of 70 amateur fights. However, his life then took a different path. “I was a bit of a lad at school,” Woods admitted. “I got a girl pregnant at school when I was fifteen. I went down a bad road from 15 to 21. I was in and out of community services, attendance centers. “I was a bit of a bad boy, but I always worked. I was cleaning the walls for aertexers, then went to cleaning for plasterers, mixing for plasterers, and then plastering. I’ve always been a grafter, but I liked to have a drink and a scrap.” One day, the young hellraiser received a message from his mother that helped steer him toward a better life. “I was in my flat and my mum put a letter under my door,” recalled Woods, who was 22 at the time. “The letter said, ‘You break my heart every time I see you. You’ve got black eyes, you’ve been locked up, you don’t know what you’re doing to me son.’ “I thought I must start training again and went to the pub for a drink. I got talking to a bloke and he said, ‘Why don’t you start boxing again?’ So that’s when I walked into the gym and met a guy called Neil Port, who was my main trainer.”
I'm very impressed by his level of comfort in the ring for a guy as inexperienced as him without amateur experience
I recall Adonis Stevenson started training boxing late at age 25 and later turned pro when he was 29.
That can't be right because he turned pro at 22 in 2015, although I would not doubt if he started boxing late like 18 - 20.
Nothing I'm just playing. It's a running joke where I pretend some Japanese fighters are awful people because very few of us boxing fans in the West, including me, knows anything about them personality-wise
I knew a guy who played high school american football, he was pretty good, but did not follow up with it past a smaller college. Fast forward when he's 28, he's a high school coach for football and attends a charity event with a very well known professional Quarterback. They throw the ball around and chat some during the event. He ends up, at 28, getting invited to a pro team and making the practice squad. He then floated around a bit in the NFL playing some preseason, but mostly being a practice squad guy (still making pretty great money). Anyway, I couldn't believe it when it happened.