Interestingly, as a teenager, he edged past future undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis at the Ontario Junior Boxing Championships in March 1980. I said, ‘You’re smart’ and went from there.”Īlthough Ruddock didn’t have an extensive amateur career, he did win a Canadian national title, the Golden Gloves in Canada and the AAU in America. “My friend said, ‘Donovan, why don’t you go do boxing?’ I was getting too rough with the kids in school. I brought the attitude to Canada and was fighting with all the kids. “In Jamaica, there are a lot of colored people. “It was so different it was a culture shock,” he said. Wilcox community school, Emery Collegiate Institute and Westview Centennial Secondary School, but a few issues led to him turning to boxing at 15. When they moved to Canada, Ruddock attended J.R. The family was split for three years before his parents had saved enough money to reunite in 1975. Ruddock’s mother moved to Canada to live with her sister and work as a dressmaker, and his father, who was a barber, a butcher and also dabbled in boxing, looked after the children back in the Caribbean. ![]() ![]() ![]() His parents wanted more for their children. “Growing up in Jamaica is different – it’s a paradise, it’s beautiful,” Ruddock told The Ring. Catherine, Jamaica, the middle child of five, on December 21, 1963. Big-punching heavyweight contender Donovan “Razor” Ruddock was a serious player in boxing’s glamor division in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
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