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A ****ing good one too according to Wikipedia:
Jackson began boxing around the age of eleven. At fourteen, a neighbor opened a boxing gym for local kids. "When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparing in the gym or selling crack on the strip", he recalled.[10] In the mid 1980s, he competed in the Junior Olympics as an amateur boxer. He recounts, "I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ".
Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Plus there's a Curtis Jackson on Boxrec, but that probably ain't the same guy, right?
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...7103&cat=boxer
I've suddenly got a lot more respect for this guy lol.
Jackson began boxing around the age of eleven. At fourteen, a neighbor opened a boxing gym for local kids. "When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparing in the gym or selling crack on the strip", he recalled.[10] In the mid 1980s, he competed in the Junior Olympics as an amateur boxer. He recounts, "I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ".
Can anybody confirm/deny this?
Plus there's a Curtis Jackson on Boxrec, but that probably ain't the same guy, right?
http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php...7103&cat=boxer
I've suddenly got a lot more respect for this guy lol.
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