Is Making a Million Dollars Among Aspiring Boxers' Top Goals?

Fury didn't grow up in a caravan
haha roadman femi A hardened criminal.

Why are we listing boxers from "good" or "bad" backgrounds, it's not going to prove anything.

 

Sure more criminal then 99% on this board

about tysons upbringing:
Fury left school when he was 11, and joined his father and three brothers [url]tarmacking roads[/url]. His mother Amber had 14 pregnancies in total, but only four of the children survived. A daughter, Ramona, was born in December 1997 but died within days. This experience has stayed with Fury, who was just nine years old at the time. Fury began boxing at the age of 10.[url][15][/url] His father acted as his trainer until 2011, when his father was jailed for gouging out the eye of another Traveller due to a long-standing feud;[url][28][/url] Fury himself was raised to keep the fighting within the ring and has not had trouble with the law


About fury living in a caravan:
"He'll live fancy and better than a lot of gypsies but he's still a gypsy."

In keeping with Traveller tradition, Fury married young when he wed Paris aged 20, five years after they first met at a mutual friend's wedding.

Even when they were engaged, Tyson would sleep in a caravan at the bottom of his fiancee's garden.

Paris says now: "I am a Traveller, I am a gypsy. I was brought up in caravans when I was a little girl.

 

I know Fury's life details, what point are you trying to make?

Hopefully not that "he had it rough"

 

That he comes from a low class poor background, he left school at age 11.

 

Left school by choice & because it's his cultural norm...Working and making good money doing low skill work whilst others are still at school.

Considered low class maybe, but not definitely not poor.

 

Dude dont make a fool out of yourself. It is one thing to leave school when you are 15-16 and know what you want to do in life but no normal sane person takes their kids out of elementary school at age 11. So was it his choice or the cultural norm? I highly doubt that he was able to make such a decision at age 11.
Of course fury grew up 10 times tougher then you and me combined.

 

I wish I could have left school at 11 and made a killing tarmacking driveways and not paying tax. Cash in hand.

I'm sort of joking not joking here.

 

Of course it is bonehead. Do you think boxers get into the toughest sport in the world for the fun of it?

Also, Tex Cobb said that boxers are lazier than other people and don’t want to work a normal job. Take that as you may but there could be some truth in it.

 

For fighters with potential, the money is more important.

If it weren’t, you’d get more guys like Camarelle sticking to getting gold medals.

You won’t see guys turning down a fight with Pac in order to fight Spence or Crawford.

 

Absolutely agree poor money management played big part in a lot of boxers financial issues, a lot were good at the fighting but good at the spending too.

There is sure a benefit for boxers earning decent purses to have a trustworthy financial advisor and accountant. Perhaps the greatest Heavyweight Champion ever Joe Louis is proof of that, Twenty-five consecutive title defenses of the title, over 11 and half year reign, ended up owing big bucks to IRS and becoming a greeter at Caesars Palace, financially supported much of time by others, even to the end when Max Schmeling paid for part of Louis funeral.