What British fighter had the most amazing backstory?

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  1. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    just watched a doc on kassim ouma, what a story! he was forced to become a child soldier in the ugandan civil war and told to chop off "enemy" limbs at aged 6. then he escaped and joined the national boxing team and on the teams trip to the US for competition he defected and then of course went on to have a very good career.

    what British fighters had the most incredible backstory?

    i'll start of

    Michael Gomez. drugs, murders and his mother going into labour with him while driving, and his partialy sighted father taking over the wheel but then crashing the car into a lamp post on the way to the hospital and then being delivered in the back seat.
     
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  2. brown bomber

    brown bomber 2010 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    Dennis Andries
     
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  3. rooq

    rooq Rooq's Boxing Promoter Full Member

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    i don't think many can match kassim ouma's story.
     
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  4. mak

    mak Active Member Full Member

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    Just read his wikipedia entry

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kassim_Ouma

    yup, thats quite story....even though he's not british

    *edit* sorry, my bad: i see now you were replying to the original poster
     
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  5. slip&counter

    slip&counter Gimme some X's and O's Full Member

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    looking for british fighters only

    ouma
    tapia
    miranda

    are not british
     
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  6. ishy

    ishy Loyal Member Full Member

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    What's the story there?
     
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  7. brown bomber

    brown bomber 2010 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    He used to work in Mcdonalds. One time a guy asked for a big mac but called him a racist name.

    Andries got really pissed off and threw the burger at his head. The guy punched him so andries jumped over the counter and started laying it all over everyone in Maccy Ds.. .

    One of them was a boxing promoter and the next week he turned pro.
     
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  8. ishy

    ishy Loyal Member Full Member

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    :lol::lol: Seriously?
     
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  9. brown bomber

    brown bomber 2010 Poster of the Year Full Member

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    True story. For real.
     
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  10. curly

    curly Fastest hands in the West Full Member

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    :lol: we have a winner
     
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  11. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    that aint really amazing thats just stupid as hell and shows us why he worked in McDonalds in the first place

    how about some of the old timers who grew up in the depressions etc..

    all these modern fighters back stories is my bed time stories to them
     
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  12. curly

    curly Fastest hands in the West Full Member

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    Who's seen the simpson episode when homer becomes a boxer? Now thats a story
     
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  13. GPater11093

    GPater11093 Barry Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl

    that one is a good one
     
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  14. brown bomber

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    dennis andries stabbed someone to death with French fry
     
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  15. kosaros

    kosaros Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Classic. all the boxing references are great, plus the song Homer comes out to; 'why can't we be friends' :lol:
     
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