overcome odds stacked against him before. READ MORE: UFC legend states ‘bare knuckle boxing is safer’ as gloves ‘only protect your hands’ Edwards, dubbed ‘Rocky’, spent the formative years of his life surrounded by crime and drugs in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica.
He has since revealed his dad was a gang leader in his local neighbourhood.“I was born in Kingston. I lived with my father, my mother and my brother, Fabian, in a wooden shack with a zinc roof.
It wasn't a one-bedroom; it was one room, period. In that room was the kitchen, the living room and the bedroom,” Edwards told ESPN. “We had one bed that we all slept in.
That was most people's upbringing where I'm from.“I realised as I got a bit older why I was the first kid in my neighbourhood to have a remote-control car and a bike.
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