Joe Booc Tejones: best little fighter you've never heard of because he keeps getting ****ing robbed!

We can lay the blame at the feet of Greg Haugen, for stigmatizing the idea of pro boxers having a blue-collar main gig while training & fighting as their side hustle, with his sneering "Tijuana cab drivers" remark in reference to most of the early opposition faced by Julio César Chávez Sr. twenty-five years ago before their match. While it backfired in spectacularly embarrassing fashion on Haugen, the cheeky turn of phrase has taken on a life of its own and its legacy in the sport overshadows his.

Driving a cab - in Tijuana or anywhere else - is a perfectly respectable occupation, and one that provides for more flexibility (in terms of finding hours to spend in a boxing gym) than 90% of things you can do for a living - so if anything hackneys probably have more opportunity to hone their skills than most others...and let's be realistic, a very small minority of boxers in the history of the world have been able to afford just training & fighting on a full-time basis with no additional revenue stream.