The Popular Perception and Legacy of David Tua

You've been here less than a month. How do you know what Classic is about?

 

Not at all. I just find it a bit odd that you seem to know so much about a place you have just joined.

 

I heard his mommy always wanted a little girl.

 

It's sure taking a while for that attitude to kick in .Tua is still fighting at age 41.
Is his Daddy standing behind him with a big stick?atsch
What a load of B.S.

 

Tua's real dream was to be a hair dresser, but one day his father caught him playing with a barbie doll, beat the **** out of him, and took him to the gym to make a man of him. :-(

 

Your patronising would be tolerable if you actually knew what the **** you were talking about ,unfortunately you don't and it isn't.

 

When David Tua worked the heavy bag, he envisioned his father throwing his favorite barbie in the trash, this is what developed the punching power that would leave iron chinned fighters like Moorer and Maskeav senseless. When he fought Ruiz, he looked across the ring and saw his father standing there, all beared and stern. But Byrd and Lewis reminded him of his mother, took his fire.

 

So would it spoil the party if I was to quote Tua giving an interview in 1996 in which he says,

He lived on a Western Samoan island with his 8 brothers and sisters, and his old man having regrets about not making it as a fighter pushed his 5 sons into boxing. David at aged 8. 3 years later when David was 11 his father would get men off the street to spar with him.

When he was 12 his parents and some of his siblings moved to Auckland and his father got a job in a factory, as a machine operator. David joined them later.

A year after that aged 13 his father made him join a boxing club, because he was running with the " wrong crowd " but he was also into other sports like hockey and cricket, but was exceptionally good at both Rugby disciplines, having trials for New Zealand secondary schools National Team at union, and playing league Rugby when that sports season was active.

So it may be fair to say that his old man " pushed " him into boxing, but he also did the same to Tua's 4 brothers, and the sparring with men at 11, is quite a bit different than being forced to fight men at 8.

 

male hairdressers.

 

Gerry Cooney ,and Jerry Quarry's fathers pushed them into boxing so did Roy Jones's father do we excuse every poor performance and blame it on that ? Its B.S.

 

'It will take more than a left hook and a haircut to beat Lennox Lewis'

Lennox Lewis on David Tua

 

Dont waste your time, the guy sucks Tuas balls to the rim. Just check out his other posts.

Ive already exposed him numerous times but he cant seem to get it into his skull. Tua was never that good, he carried his power late, thats about it