Tough life of Bernard...

It's not a big deal.

Every fighter has their own source of motivation or reason for doing certain things, or ways to hype themselves up.

If Hopkins feels his tough upbringing makes him work harder in the gym and in the ring, so be it.

It's not like it ultimately matters in the ring.

Otherwise Kassim Ouma and Edison Miranda would be undefeated and Marco Antonio Barrera would have sucked.

 

the only person that talks about hopkins growing up in jail is.....well...hopkins

 

It's justifiable. I'm sure plenty of things were growing up inside him during that period of his life.

 

I see your points. In the broad scope of things, poverty in the U.S. is nothing compared to other parts of the world. I mean some people have nothing and would consider any poor person in America very lucky.

It is what it is.

 

This is a good thread...I'm waiting for Dorfmeister...

artytime

 

Im sorry, but this post is wrought with the sense of someone who has never experienced THAT TYPE of hardship before.

I grew up in the "hood"...and its a hell of alot tougher than having to airdry your clothes and not own a car. A HELL OF ALOT TOUGHER!!! This post is ****ing insulting...

And every Miranda fight, he talks about how he grew up...same with most Morales fights...or Mayorga or Ouma (who truely had it worse than ANYONE).

Please dont post about things you have no idea about. Some places in America SEEM TO THIRD WORLD NATIONS...ya feel like your in a whole new country the day you rise above it and "get out" so to say (I know this from personal experience).

(I understand the prison thing you speak of....in a way...but please dont even begin to think that living in the "projects" as you spoke of is some kind of easy thing...because its ****ing condesending)

 

Ouma lived in hell. Literally. And so did Miranda.

 

Background is irrelevant at this level of the game.

 

Bernard Hopkins story is somewhat exaggerated He's one of my favorite fighters so I looked it up where he grew up. While he did live in the ghetto at one time, his family moved to germantown which was a decent working class town. It was there he started bullying people around.

 

I remember Hamed being told how poor and hungry Vuyani Bungu was when he was child and how his life had made him tough, Hamed replied I've eaten well all my life I'll still knock him out.

 

Precisely! At this level of the game, background is irrelevant.:thumbsup

It comes down to will to win and talent.

How that will to win has been forged is immaterial.

It's true that usually those at the very bottom who make it make it big. But it's also true that those at the very top who make it make it big too. Calzaghe is no aristocrat. Nor is he from the hood. But you can be working/middle class and make it big too.

 

The HOOD is different then just ****ing poverty. Its the criminal element and the EVERYDAY violence. I see africans, asians, etc etc that come from the poorest most oppressed regions and they are scared SHITLESS everyday here. Africans especially. Let me tell you this, you order food for delivery..lol I have to go out to the ****ing african sub shop owners car to get my food in my neighberhood. Thats IF THEY feel like delivering... My girl just picked my son up from my house and she stopped at the gas station around my way and she said a guy came running in saying he was robbed and carjacked and she had my son with her got in her car(nice one) and hauled ass b/c if they would take a grown mans car they sure as **** would toss her out. I DARE ANY OF YOU TO COME TO THE HOOD. I dare you. I guarantee you would be petrified shitless and would not know how to survive. You have to know the people and how to carry yourself or you would have it bad.

 

Now if there ever was a bully from the uk boxing ranks it be Naz Hamed.
Tried to bully Eubanks but got his belts thrown across the floor of Heathrow airport. Tried to bully Carl Thompson untill CT cracked nearly knocked Naz out in a limo, he was just a horrible lil flashy ****er Naz. Good fighter and entertainer but a bully none the less.

 

Oh puhleeease man...I grew up in a suburb in Auckland New Zealand comparable to any 'hood' in the US. It was a predominantly Maori/Islander population, and most whites living there were either pissheads or petrified.

I'm not going to glorify the shithole by comparing stories of violence and crime with you, but please stop crapping on about how tough your particular 'hood' is TooPurdy, I cringe every time you go on one of your escapades - you haven't been outside of your own city, so you are in no position to throw out the claim of coming from the toughest 'hood', or toughest type of 'hood', in the world.