Which fighter had the worst childhood?

[VanMMA]

Any thoughts a couple of years later?

 

[Tyler Durden]

Pretty sure Jens Pulver had a rough go.

 

[corrupted]

I remember the UFC went in depth on Roger Huerta’s childhood when they were trying to shove him down our throats...

It was pretty fucking bad.

Didn't he get abandoned completely or something?

 

[Johnnny]

 

[welcometohavoc]

Aldo

Jens Pulver's dad put a gun in his mouth and told him he was worthless

 

[textwarrior]

Luke Rockhold, imagine being the rich kid on the block then fighting ghetto killers? ...Must be horrible poor guy should have had nothing.

 

[BabyBlue_Bomber]

Didn't he get abandoned completely or something?

Yeah. His parents pretty much didn’t want his ass and kicked him out when he was like 10 or something.

 

[TimeToTrain]

Roger Huerta, Frank Shamrock, Charles Bennett, Max Holloway

 

[wolffanghameha]

I wasn't there for their childhoods so it's hard to judge, especially when some situations can be worse on paper but better in reality and vice versa, and there are ones who probably had rough childhoods but rarely talk about it (seems to be the default in MMA to have a hard childhood), but Jens, Huerta, War Machine, Ngannou's all sound pretty sad or scary. At the same time, most of them had an outlet in MMA or another combat sport so it wasn't all bad, compared to those without any outlet (Ngannou didn't have an outlet, he had to go and make one as an adult by going to France).

 

[TimeToTrain]

Damn, any UFC fighter actually had a loving, normal childhood?

Jon Jones
BJ Penn
Wonderboy

 

[sonhow]

From the options Id think Id least like to get gangraped.

Id take tractor driving over me, poverty and plumbing over that any time.