HUGOBOX

I met Roberto back in the early eightes he once told a story of when he was about 12 he used to get picked on a lot by bigger boys he told me he had to fight to lay claim to street corners in order to apply his trade, he use to shine shoes for miserable tips his father had been stranged from his mother a long time. One day 3 boys gang up on him and took his box and rought him up he remembers going home crying to his mother , but instead of a consolation hug his mother became in raged and told him that it was a hard world they were living in and that it was time he became a man she took him by the arm and went to one the boys home, his mother told Roberto either you fight this son of a bitch and get your box back or your not eating or sleeping at my house tonight.
Roberto remembers feeling such a rage inside because of all the times being bullied and at his mothers reaction that he tore into the bigger kid with an insane anger it scared the bigger kid who now had to fight without his buddies backing him up , he vividly remember his mother's screams urging him on to do what ever he had to do to win, he remembers punching with every thing he had non stop then rolling on the ground finally biting the kid on his shoulder and not letting go. The kid began screaming for help and finnally two men who were watching deceided it was time to stop it and pulled the kids apart, a crowd had gatter by then and Robertos mom Felicia screamed out of the top of her lungs that neither she or her boy would put up with abuse from any one ,she was one feared and fierce woman the crowd stood silent, then the boys sister brought out the box and placed near them carefull not to get too close , she told Roberto to pick it up then took him by the hand and as they was walking him home she began lecturing him about how never to show fear never backdown, and never give up, it could very well be said that she created this fighting machine.
Roberto told me that day changed his life and he allways applied his mothers teachings when he found himself in similar situations...the one thing that stands out for him of this memory he saids that while he was fighting so angry that he did not feel any pain , until the next day that is...