Where famous boxers grew up and lived
Explore the homes and neighbourhoods of 5 famous boxers, and how each place shaped the person they became.
Joe Louis1926–1934
📍 Black Bottom, Detroit, Michigan, USA
I was born Joseph Louis Barrow in May 1914 in a ramshackle cabin on Bell Chapel Road in rural Chambers County, Alabama, the seventh of eight children of sharecroppers who were the children…
Manny Pacquiao1990–1995
📍 General Santos City, South Cotabato, Philippines
Manny Pacquiao was born in December 1978 in Kibawe, in the mountains of Bukidnon province on the island of Mindanao, in the southern Philippines, into a very poor family, in a thatched…
Mike Tyson1976–1980
📍 Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11212, USA
Mike Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York, in June 1966, and when he was about ten, his family moved to Brownsville, then one of the poorest and most dangerous neighbourhoods in New York, a…
Muhammad Ali1942–1960
📍 Muhammad Ali Childhood Home, 3302 Grand Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
I grew up on Grand Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, in a pink house in the West End — a neighbourhood that was Black, working-class, and deeply proud. My father Cassius Sr painted signs and…
Sugar Ray Robinson1932–1940
📍 Harlem, Manhattan, New York, NY 10027, USA
I was born Walker Smith Jr. in May 1921, the youngest of three children of a farming family; my birth certificate says Ailey, Georgia, though I always said I was born in Detroit. My father…