Daily News | Philly boxer Stephen Fulton survived a ‘tiger attack.’ Now he’s ready to face ‘The Monster’ in Japan
Stephen Fulton Jr. hid as a kid in his bedroom, allowing his mind to run wild while playing with his toy cars. He moved all over the city, shuffling in and out of public housing in almost every neighborhood. Fulton — now Philadelphia’s only boxing world champion — didn’t have much. But he always had that imagination.
For a kid, a tale about a tiger was more fun than explaining the truth. But as Fulton fights Tuesday in Tokyo in the biggest bout of his career, the “tiger scratch” is a perfect reminder of everything he overcame to get to the top of his sport and why he’s willing to risk it all against an opponent called “The Monster.”
“It explains why I am the world champion,” Fulton said. “That’s why I’m the world champion. I’m very proud. I like doing the things that other people won’t do or aren’t willing to do.”West Philly boxer Julian Williams is back with the trainer who helped him go from homeless to world champ “It has nothing to do with power for my knockouts,” Fulton said. “It has more to do with executing. That’s all it is. A person could have no power or way less power than I do, but if they know how to execute, they can stop their opponent and knock their opponent out and get their opponent out of there. I’m ready to go out there and lay it all out on the line. I know what I have to do to win and I know what I have to do to embrace or stay away from power.
“She was a single mother raised on her own by herself,” Fulton said of his mother. “She was just teaching us to survive. As a kid, I didn’t know much about forgiveness but I knew that was my mother. I feel like I never paid this any mind. To this day, I still don’t worry about my back. I’ve moved way past those types of things. Look where I am now. I didn’t dwell on it because as a kid you don’t know where it came from until you get older and then they explain it to you.
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