One of the saddest stories since Edison Miranda

[BoxingChaos]

A Gym With No Speed Bag? WTF!?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2njPsvQXY



I remember one of the first things that caught my ear as a kid walking into a gym was the sound of a speed bag and to think Lamont Peterson is fighting for a title this Saturday, but is just learning how to hit the pear? What in the world is going on here? If the following story does not move the reader, then you better check to see if you have a pulse.


The opportunity tonight to become a world boxing champion isn't where Lamont Peterson's life once seemed to be headed.

"Dead, or 100 years in prison," Peterson said this week, reflecting on his early childhood spent in horrid poverty in Washington D.C.

Peterson, 25, will fight World Boxing Organization junior-welterweight champion Timothy Bradley of Palm Springs at the Agua Caliente Spa Resort Casino in Rancho Mirage in a bout that has generated buzz because...


A Gym With No Speed Bag? WTF!?

[markb018]

Pretty interesting stuff...I had no idea about his upbringing let alone the speed bag. I liked Peterson, even before reading this and will be rooting for him even more now