It's a nice story, but it's not the end all be all. But in boxing it seems to be a prerequisite for certain people.
I was talking to a coworker that was putting me on to a gym to go to. His 14 year old cousin goes there and has been taking up boxing. He loves it. He talks about how great it would be to be a boxer. And apparently they told him that it wasn't for him, because he was a good kid that came from a good family that made a decent living. He wasn't poor and from the streets and whatnot.
What kinda silly shyt is that? Idk, it just seems so ignorant to me
That's just the way boxing is breh. The sport has too many century old myths to get people to change their way of looking at things. I mean you got nikkas that think you can't increase power or speed, or improve reflexes. They think you gotta be born with it (although everyone's ceiling is different) cats act like you can't build upon what God blessed you with.
As for poor people in boxing being better than their well off counterparts, my trainer explained it to me back when I first started. People feel like a hard poor upbringing full of disappointments, trials, and tribulations will better prepare you to deal with the hardships and rough moments that boxing presents. I see where he and that old way of thinking is coming from, I just don't feel like its the end all determining factor in how good someone can become.
My first day training, fukking coach looked at me like
because he couldn't fathom why this quiet 19 yr old lightskin ponytail keith thurman before keith thurman looking ass nikka wanted to fukking box. Especially since my pops who is much bigger an intimidating looking dropped me off. It's' like he got the idea that somehow my pops raised some soft ass nikka and that he wanted boxing to turn me around. A couple of weeks later he finally realized that I'm just somebody that really loves boxing and nothing would deter me from getting better or training. Dude pretty much thought I was crazy and that anybody that will do boxing because they love it and not because they have to are a different breed.
When everything is equal (talent, skill, etc...) I think the love you have for the sport is what really matters. When you love something, that's when you go the extra mile regardless of how you were brought up. Every nikka from the hood ain't super tough and every rich nikka ain't spoiled.
Victor Ortiz didn't grow up rich and that dude quits just about anytime shyt got rough, whereas Sanders had to keep throwing meteorites at Wlad who kept getting up trying to continue.
