Tell us something we may not know about famous boxers...

kostya tszyu use to fight grown men from when he was 14 years old

 

Juan Manuel Marquez used to work for the government of Mexico City and has a bachelors degree (altough I dont know what his major is)

 

That explains alot

 

Bernard Hopkins braided hair in Prison.

 

John Ruiz was offered a role for the movie "Insomnia" with Al Pacino and Robin Williams.

 

Jake LaMotta's father would charge people to watch his adolescent son beat people up on the streets of The Bronx.

 

as a polar bear?

 

marquez brothers are married with sisters

 

Floyd Joy Mayweather dedicated his win against Corrales to "All the battered Women of the world".. Only to batter a woman himself a few years later.

 

Haha, how ironic.

 

At 12 years old, Wilfred Benitez was forced to spar against Esteban DeJesus, the man who later gave Duran his first defeat.

 

Pernel Whittaker likes to snort Coke.

 

Tyson Fury was booked for a show that some fighters from my gym were booked on but the lanky twat was too busy hitting himself in the face to show up

 

An interesting Fact about the Cinderella Man
When ready to fight, the thirty-two-year-old Braddock chose to defend his title against the 23-year-old star Joe Louis. Realizing that Louis would be a heavy favorite and being an astute businessman, Joe Gould negotiated an agreement with Mike Jacobs, head of 20th Century Sporting Club, a competitor to Madison Square Garden, whereby Braddock would receive 10% of the promoter's future gate receipts. At Comiskey Park, in front of fifty thousand fans, Braddock knocked Louis down in the first round of their June 22, 1937 bout, but Louis recovered and dominated the bout, winning by an eighth round stoppage. According to Braddock, Louis threw far more punches than Baer had.

Although Braddock never complained, few knew that during the fight with Louis, Braddock actually received medication for arthritis. Braddock barely lifted his left during the fight because the medicine numbed him like a muscle relaxant. Braddock's only lucky punch happened in an uppercut, simply since he failed to raise his left over his head. His follow up punch missed Louis's chin, and slammed into Louis's chest. The punch cracked around the auditorium. Joe Louis worked Braddock over in the subsequent rounds, added twenty-three stitches, and moving a tooth right through his mouthpiece and into his lip. Joe Louis is on record as saying Braddock was "the most courageous fighter I ever fought." Braddock is reported to have aided Louis with some of his tax problems with the IRS later in life and the two developed an abiding friendship

 

great story.