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

It's pretty much irrelevant to compare a third world country to a first world country. The U.S. still has very violent and impoverished areas that middle and upper class Americans would be horrified to live in for a DAY. Have you lost multiple relatives and peers to violence? Maybe even went hungry. If not you shouldn't speak on who has it bad or not.

 

Felix Trinidad grew up in a nice area of PR, really safe and friendly

:hat

 

Didnt Floyd see his daddy get shot with a shotgun when he was a baby? his dad was holding him.

 

What the **** are you talking about? Someone else posted, and I responded, to the relative level of "toughness" that one grows up with. You say there are bad neighborhoods in American cities? No **** Sherlock, I used to repo and have been in the worst neighborhoods in South Florida day-in and day-out. Are they bad? Yeah they are, however they aren't remotely as bad as the situation this kid was in as a child, and I was telling his story. As bad as someone has it in America, Western Europe or Japan the truth is that it doesn't compare to the kind of abject poverty and violence one sees just across the border in a city like Juarez or Zona Norte in TJ. As tough as the gangs in Opa Locka think they are they would **** themselves if confronted with something like the AFO or Los Zetas, and that is a fact.

For the record that isn't a good thing, and being proud of poverty, degredation, and violence in your neighborhood is beyond ridiculous. It isn't a badge of courage, it is an admission of societal failure.

 

There was something else i was putting down but i chose the wrong ****in thread

 

Let's be real here. I recently moved out the worst part of Wichita, KS. And Wichita KS is a bigger city then Grand Rapids and uglier. I lived right in the prostitution and crack, homeless section. There were police helicopters that flew around occaisonaly at night and drug houses right next to me. Right next to my house, they busted a guy with a big ass bag of white powder that may have been coke or may have been meth; all I know is they took it outta his cast.

Thing is, Wichita wasn't ****. I've been to some real **** holes. I've walked around in ghettos in 3rd world countries and my girl lived in South Central LA.

Grand Rapids ain't that tough. It definitely can't compare to the ghettos fo the major cities around the US and ESPECIALLY in the world which make ghettos in the US look soft in comparison.

 

The Klitschko's, Soviet Air Force brats to a high ranking officer.

 

Yey everyone keeps saying how nice and middle class Pomona is They have some decent parts maybe thats where Shane is from, but i can think of at least 6 major gangs in Pomona. Like i said before for being a somewaht small city they have had 4 world champs so apparently its not to soft.

 

No his friend just lived around a bunch of Minoritysatsch

 

A kid got beat to death in the apartment my cousin was living in. He was 16 years old over drugs.

Crack heads used to come up to the window at nights, meth heads all over the place, trust me, Rap aint Detroit or Flint, but certain parts are as rough as anywhere else.

Its nicknamed "Gun Rule" for a reason. It aint mayberry by any stretch.

 

:good Agreed good post!

 

How about Sergio Martinez?

 

Grand Rapids ain't Detroit and why the **** do I care what some 8th grader that sells some nickel bags got to say about a city, callin it "gun rule."

Lil cities like that ain't **** compared to cities where the pie tastes better.

 

Didnt I just say it aint Flint or Detroit? Detroit and Flint are bad areas with good areas mixed in. Grand Rapids is largely a good area with bad areas mixed in. Doesnt matter though, dudes still get blasted all the time out here, and there are places if you hang out past curfew your liable to get ****ed up.

Nobody said it was East LA or Southside Chicago. It has its fair share of gangsters and dead beats that'll kill you over nothing though.