What is your definition of a bum?

Oh, that's very interesting story, when I moved to San Francisco with two suitcases and I didn't know anyone, and I have, I hit YMCA with a $2000 check that I couldn't cash.

 

How can they say this about me? I don't believe it.

 

/bum/

Unambitious street vagrant who begs for money while wearing soiled trousers and a vomit stained winter hat.

Fun fact: Iran Barkley was a bum at one point.

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That's life, man.

 

If you ever stepped into a boxing ring or a boxing gym or did any form of combat sport you wouldnt call any fighter a bum,its funny when I see world champions being called bums on here..

 

That's the idea.

 

A homeless person.

Howard Eastman, Edison Miranda, and Jack Dempsey were all bums. I think Manny Pacquiao may have been a bum too.

 

This also annoys me very much, so respectful, its OK to say they are just decent or good but to call some of these Champions Bums is way out of line and is nonsense.

 

AB

A Bum

 

You hear pros calling each other bums every weekend :/

 

We'll see about that.

 

A bum is a fighter who loves the sport, but God bless him, he wasn't fortunate enough to have been given the physical qualities to make his dream reality.
The term can be fluid, as example, some of the fighters Joe Louis faced in his famous "Bum-Of-The-Month" club were better than some of today's top contenders.