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They wonder why I still get in the ring and Spar at 53 years old?
Want to know why?
Here’s why…
I come from a long line of hardships that some would never bounce back from. Some hardships that nearly took me to the thereafter at one point. Yet, I withstood the tests of time.
I box because it’s therapeutic for me. To the point if I die in the ring I just died in the ring. I’m good with it, because I died for something outside my wife and children I love.
Hardships that are overly insurmountable can make a person lose their way of humanity. Then again I know that certain hardships wouldn’t last forever, though the residual effect of the drama of my past…
Drama, hardship and so much pain…
- Mama not wanting me to be a boxer. I ended up doing it anyway after she kicked me out.
- Joined a gang, it was tough. Lost a lot of son called friends to bll my
- Mama not letting me play football at one point (small) end up playing anyway later.
- Being raped by my mother’s boyfriend.(Threatened to kill him and he left town)
- My first love ran away
- Being clipped in the arm in 1991
- My 2nd love got murdered in front of me by her ex…