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

Didn't look rough... Dude Flint is one of the roughest places to be in the United States, if not North America. There is not one redeeming quality of Flint that any city would want to replicate.

 

darrin van horn?

 

i think people are confusing tough streets for tough fighters. mosley and mayweather have only thought of 1 thing since they were 12. being the best and being the best at boxing. nothing else. everyday every night it's boxing and from a young age.

also to stay in the amatuers you need to be pretty economically stable while you train and fight even police officers and firefighters only have a few tourney's a year. aaron pryor had a nice house in a poor area, but he was born into a family who didnt take any notice of him he went to germany to fight in a tourneyment came back and they didnt even know he had left.

 

Tyson Fury was a gypsy.

 

I want to say Mike Tyson, the reason being is because the guy was born in Brooklyn, but he trained out of Catskill, NY. He also went to High School there. Catskill is not a ghetto or rough area by most people standards, it is rather quaint actually. Not rich, but not bad either.

 

Did he live under a wagon?

 

Good point. Those are actually two completely different types of toughness as well as two completely different types of smarts that it takes to survive in each.

 

Many fighters I know did not grow up under bad circumstances. Where you grow up or how you grow up doesn't turn you into a fighter. You have to be born a fighter... Your parents can be some of the richest people in the world lol, but if you were born to fight...the fight game will come calling!

 

Yeah I grew up middle class but always knew I would end up being a fighter. I'm just a person addicted to fighting I can't help it but I know when to fight.

 

Watch the Tyson documentary. He grew up in one of the roughest parts of brooklyn and was a stick up kid. He started boxing when he went to jail.

I think he reps catskill because of Angelo.

 

Edison Miranda...

 

Ricardo Mayorga. Was in a couple of Machete gangs, but honestly pretty quaint upbringing.

 

dana rosenblatt , virgil hill ,an the schoolboy darrin van horn,an joey gamache

 

Jack Dempsey...

 

only fighters from third world countries grew up rough and tough.

the rest of usa and uk fighters and most west europeans no matter what area thy grew up in , times were not hard for them as kids growing up in comparison to any third world kid.

as kids you adapt and the area you grow up in is the norm, as long as you have food to eat which we all did no matter how poor ,whats hard about it.