Tough life of Bernard...

What??

I have family all over western Europe, and the average living conditions are quite a lot better than that. atsch

Though you make a good point. When Brewster (think it was him) fought Liakhovich this was an issue.

Lamon went on and on about the hood and his tough life, Sergei didn't say anything, except when finally pressed by reporters, he replied: "I think I had it tougher in Eastern Europe, but it's not something I brag about." :good

 

Where did you live? The Crest?

 

true and as a pro, you'd know. but if you gotta glass chin and come from nothing than it's very unlikely you'll ever get to a stage where anyone would notice. also, assuming average chin ability, mental toughness is what i was talking about.

 

Bernard is 6'1" and very imposing in person. But you don't have to be tall to intimidate someone. Just the right look at the right person is almost enough to get them to hand over their wallet.

 

Do you know ANYTHING about the joys of the American penal system? Or the quality of life in American inner cities? We incarcerate more per capita than any nation in the world, and have whittled our rehabilitation programs down to nothing. To be where he is today is incredible, and he's earned the right to embellish his story and his persona to the degree he has. Which frankly, isn't much.

Of course there is more abject poverty in the developing world, but you've got no ground to stand on implying that Hopkins has lived some kind of charmed existence.

 

Tijuana is a rough city indeed but Eric had a decent up bringing. he was from a middle class family as far as I know he didn't really experience pverty. Not that I think that makes a difference or anything just pointing that out.

 

If you see murder and violence everyday, it doesn't matter where you are, it's still murder and violence everyday.

 

No, I heard Morales grew up in pretty bad poverty, in a poor, crime-ridden area of TJ.

La Zona Norte Tijuana is known for crime, drugs, and prostitution.

 

That's real logic, but not ESB logic.

According to ESB logic, East Oakland can't be bad. After all, the ghettos of Johannsberg, Rio De Janiero, and Cape Town are probablyworse.

And the favelas of Rio can't be that bad. It's not worse than the Civil Wars and genocides of the Sudan and other places in Africa!

 

:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: noooooooooooooo u serious damn thats so gangster

 

Don't forget, four walls and access to a laundromat erases all experienced adversity.

 

I dont think a post has made me as angry as reading the original poster saying that. Condesending bull****.

 

I hear you. But I'd like to think we can do our bit for the world on here by staying calm and reminding people that not everything in America is filled with sweetness and light. There was a show on last night looking at the effects of low income induced stress, asthma, and diabetes in the American inner city. It's hard to listen those stories, and still see the point of debating "who has it worse" globally. Although I know of experiences I personally do consider "worse" (Kassim Ouma), what is the point, really?

Suffering is universal.

 

it aint just americans its any fighter that has had it tough, no matter where the from or color.hopkins did not grow up in mr rogers hood and he did a dime in the state penn.just to come out and refuse to be another black statistic.alot of people who did the same **** hopkins did are in the penn for life or dead, hopkins is looked up to by alot of young black men that are or were headed down the wrong road.he proved that no matter the living condition or were you from or who you are you can make it.

and he is proven as black man an endangered species that anyone can make it, without having a pot to **** in and window to throw it out of.if he can do it anyone can.

thats all i got to say, as far as a hard life.manny had ****ed up life stealing and saleing ciggs to make a buck.but ouma has them all beat by far.

ouma has been thorugh some **** i would not want to ever go through.

but nothing wrong for hopkins to tell his story,because there are alot of young americans mostly black but others as well that need to hear a story like hopkins.

**** it might keep them from robbing you one day, look at it like that :good