RICHARDSON Hitchins escaped a troubled life in Brooklyn by selling water bottles on the streets and becoming a boxer.
The New Yorker was raised in a one-bedroom apartment in Crown Heights – and found refuge in the boxing gym.
“I got into boxing because I used to fight a lot in the streets,” Hitchins told SunSport ahead of his DAZN PPV bout against Oscar Duarte.
“And I was just always infatuated with fighting, fighting movies, friends that knew how to fight, people that knew how to fight…