Marco Antonio Barrera wanted to be a lawyer. He grew up in Mexico City worrying not about his next meal, but what college ? and then law school ? he would enter. As a boy, he worked on movie sets with his father, a set designer. He had money. He had a future. He had options.
But boxing?
“That’s something my parents always asked me,” Barrera said. “It’s just a sport I’ve always loved.”
