Which city got the best fighters (state, life, people, Chicago)
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We might as well stop beatin around the bush with these threads about buildings and whatnot, and get straight to the only question that really matters. Who's top dawg could whoop who's top dawg's a$$.
Be it your best street fighters or sanctioned fighters, whos got the best all around scrappers?
And leave that paper gangsta $hit outta this.
My top five are:
Philly: Most storied boxing town in all the US. I used to box and everybody I grew up wit used to at the very least slap box. There is even a boxing style named after Philly, and I don't even need to start getting in to the great names that have come out of Philly gyms.
LA/SoCal: They go hard with that mma stuff.
Chicago: Tuff and blue collar, cold as hell
The city formerly known as New York: If you grew up in NYC or Urban New Jersey in the 80's or 90's you had to be able to fight or you would learn, the school kids would make sure of that.
Detroit: You have to be tough to deal with that $hit.
Thoughts?
Last edited by killakoolaide; 06-09-2010 at 10:02 PM..
nyc in the early 90's was extra grimy. a scrawny, nerdy kid such as myself had a rep whenever i was out of town off the strength of being from nyc. off the strength of my accent.
what other city can say something like that???
i could just be chillin and ppl would say "oh don't mess with him, he's from ny" like i was gonna bully everyone just because i'm from ny, lol. i was always quiet too so its not like i gave off any bad vibes.
i still remember the first time i went down south and how fascinated ppl were just listening to me speak. some ppl wanted to fight me on like day one when i spent the summer with my cousins just because i was from ny and they wanted to prove themselves in their hood.
lol who does that tho??
anyway, all that is gone IMO. ny is mad soft now. we lost the character we had...i mean the "essence" of the city will hopefully never ever go away fully but that character that we had in the early 90's and back is gone because of (IMHO) gentrification.
on topic, i don't think nyc can be touched if you're talking about from like 1995 and back. chicago obviously, philly, dc...they need to be in this too. chicago today is no joke and neither is detroit. chicago back then was no joke lol. mad ppl died over petty stuff. its probably between chicago and ny, now that i think about it.
but philly is grimy too, even now. i don't know what it was like back then but yeah. i know nyc back then was crazy. all types of murders, trash everywhere, bums everywhere, squeegee men, ppl playing three card monte, prostitutes everywhere, drug dealers and drug addicts everywhere, ppl shooting places up with uzi's, nickel and dime bags with dirty syringes near the side walk/in the street/gutter areas, etc. etc.
couldn't trick or treat, nothing.
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haitians in miami go hard too. street sweepers and everything.
i remember my father telling me about how him and his brothers didn't like these dudes. they got into some altercation and my father went back in the house, grabbed a bat, found the dude and they stomped him out after beating him with a bat. this is in queens bridge in the late 70's/early 80's.
what else...
their mom would beat them and/or kick them out if they didn't defend themselves.
lol, my father was a drug dealer back then, too. he straightened his life up, tho.
um...what else...this girl i used to talk to, her mom got shot 7 times by her bf. she lived tho. this is more recent.
i remember the bronx used to be so rough...my mom and i would go visit her friend...we'd take the F from parsons to manhattan, transfer to the D train, get off in the bronx but we would not leave the station. we'd talk to her through the gate in the station.
both her sons got shot in the head...after that she was never the same.
i say that to say this, anybody from ny knows how far it is from jamaica to the bronx so you know it had to have been rough for us to go that far and not even leave the subway station lol.
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