Boxers that grew up 'NOT' in a rough area?

MW, have you ever been to the Southwest Detroit area? Specifically Edsel Street? Whatcha know about the Puritan Ave gangs in Detroit?

I've seen the documentary Murder City and have heared about various gangs in the Detroit area like YBI.

 

George Foremans Son

 

yep theres a site in peckham and a site in lewisham and defo big site in abbey wood /thaemsmead ends. also in charlton.
im from catford in lewisham borough "blue borough" and box for lynn abc in camberwell ive seen an know da traverlers o the circuit and im black so says alot. from wat ino il tell you uk fighters

joe calzaghe/ricky hatton/ amir khan/tyson fury/ derick chisora/kevin mitchell/.
USA
holyfield/dirrell/calvi brock/winky wright/andre ward/lucian bute/:bbb

haye grew up in a racist area in bermondsey so even though he wernt a badguy he was in a bad riot like area who are the home of football team millwall an if ur from uk ud defo know about there firm his brother james haye whos an am boxer isa road guy though but david was a boxing athlete/model growing up.

 

I know, at one point we didn't even have grass in Piccadilly GARDENS.

 

Michael katsidis is from Toowoomba, Queensland. A good honest Aussie city/town.

 

I live in inner London (Hackney) and it isn't rough. I work all over London.
One of the safest cities in the world, considering its size.

Maybe 100 years ago London was rough. But nowadays it's not.
Of course people get murdered, stabbed, shot, gang-raped, whatever .. . And there's drugs and crime, robberies etc.
But that's always going to be the case in a big city.
Maybe some parts of outer london is rougher ? I dont know.

It's not a rough or dangerous city though.
There are no real "slums" left in London. Even the dirtiest, most run-down areas have some sanitation and public services. And police dont have to roll into any areas with armoured tanks or machine guns.

I'm lucky I live in London, it's a safe city.

 

you want a tough upbringing? Read Durans autobiography. Man he had it real tough

 

Well thats not the story they were telling when he was an up and coming fighter,they said he was like a prince in ghana ,his father was millionaire and his family was like royalty in Ghana and thats why he sometimes he wore a crown to the ring,you can hear all those things during his fight with Salvador Sanchez.

They(his handlers,and the commentators)either lied back then or hes lying now,i would bet on the former.

 

Prince Mama Mohamad a former LH contender who fought in the Los Angeles area was originally from Ghana and supposedly was royalty.

 

Prince Charles Williams
King Arthur Williams
Duke McKenzie
Earl Hargrove

 

The Klitschko's dad was a Soviet air force colonel. If your dad is an air force colonel here you're probably going to be in private school, so they can't have had it too bad.

King Arthur Abraham

 

Na but serious i used to see Prince MAMA Mohamed fight at the forum and he was hyped up on the programs and media guides to be Royalty back in Ghana.

Years later i heard that might have been a publicity stunt,but hasnt been confirmed.

My buddy said he saw some Vato knockout Prince cold with a cheap shot after the bel( in an East LA gym), after Prince had worked him over in a sparring session. Supposedly Prince was so incensed when he got up 5 minutes later that he was even starting **** with other guys in the gym saying i know he yo friend

 

Yeah, but if your Dad's a Soviet Air Force Colonel you probably live under quite a tough regime at home.

 

Yeah, its seems a common theme to say Africans are royalty.

 

The difference is that Houston is a gigantic city that has some really nice parts and some really shitty parts. Who knows what part of the city he came from. Whereas Flint and Youngstown just suck all the way around.