Dillian Whyte Was Shot Twice, Stabbed 3 Times, Had First Son - By The Time He Was 13

[FlatLine]

'The Body Snatcher', as he is frighteningly nicknamed, grew up in the concrete jungle of Brixton as a self-confessed thug, where he had to use his fists to get himself out of bother.

But that didn't always work when guns and knives were brought to the fight.

As a street kid, the 31-year-old British heavyweight boxer was shot twice and stabbed three times on the mean streets of South London, as gangs ran rife.

And as soon as he became a teenager, Whyte's life changed dramatically when he became a father for the first time.


GUNS OF BRIXTON
Whyte was born in Jamaica in poverty, and his mum left the family home in Portland when he was just a toddler to find a job in London.

"Man when I was growing up in Jamaica we suffered, suffered, suffered," he told BBC Sport last year.

"Some days we couldn't eat, we'd go to bed hungry. She left me with people who didn't take very good care of me.

"They were taking the money my mum was sending and was telling me she wasn't sending anything."

By the age of 12, Whyte and his brother Dean joined his mother in Brixton. But soon he was wayward, corrupted by the cruel, impoverished surroundings he was growing up in.


He was stabbed three times, once sewing himself back together instead of heading to his local A&E at King's College Hospital in Camberwell.

Whyte was also shot twice after getting caught in a gang war in Clapham, and painfully had to remove a bullet from his leg because he didn't want to bother his hard-working mum.

"I took the bullet out and hid out," Whyte told The Telegraph.

"It was out of respect for my mum. I didn’t ever want to bring police to her house.

"Doesn’t matter what I did or how bad I was, I showed respect for her. If I was ever injured, I couldn’t go to the hospital in case they alerted my mum, so I did what I had to do."

At school and growing up on an estate, Whyte was often asked to take on bullies, who he gladly put on their backsides in exchange for change and sandwiches.

"I've always been a fighter," Whyte told the Daily Mirror. "I've never had a choice. Growing up I had to fight to survive.

"Kids used to pay me to fight bullies for them, I swear. At schools and around my estate. The bullies were older and bigger than me.

"Sometimes they gave me food, it could be sandwiches or it could be money. I think £2 was the most I got and £2 was a lot back then. You could buy a hell of a lot of sweets for £2 back then."

In his late teens, Whyte found himself in prison in Bristol awaiting trial and facing up to 20 years behind bars.

An emotional visit from his mum and sister opened his eyes, and he hated seeing them upset.

"My older brother died and she was saying she didn't want to lose another son,' Whyte told the Daily Mail.

"As bad as I was, I never wanted to disappoint my mum.

"When she came to the prison in Bristol, she said, 'Son, we've been through so much in life". I looked at my mum's face and the tears rolling down her cheeks and I felt bad and I felt ashamed."

It made Whyte change his ways for the better.

Whyte needed something to channel his anger and aggression growing up, and he found it in the discipline of boxing.

It's fair to say that Miguel's Gym provided him with the platform to build another life for himself.

"I didn't do too well at school, to be honest, but boxing saved me and changed my life," Whyte once said.

"And it was going well, because I knew it was my best chance in life."

But originally, Whyte tried his hand at professional kickboxing. And he was a success too.

He was a two-time British heavyweight kickboxing champion, claiming the BIKMA Super Heavyweight British Championship title, and was also a one-time European K1 champion.

He ended his K1 career with an impressive record of 20 wins and just one loss, before turning to MMA.

In 2008, he fought at the Ultimate Challenge MMA - defeating Mark Stroud with a hugely destructive left hook only 12 seconds into the first round.

When he was just 13-years-old, Whyte became a father for the first time. He has since had two more children.

But it was becoming a teenage dad that meant he had to grow up quick.

"I was a dad at 13-years-old so I have been looking after kids and I had to rush my mental state, growing up a lot faster," he told 1 News.

"When you become a dad it changes everything, where most kids were running around I'm working two jobs and doing other things to get money to feed my children.

"I'm trying to win these fights so my kids have a good life and make sure they don't have to struggle the way I struggled."

[giant_king]

Dillian talks about struggle.what the heck those he know about struggle he's from the UK lol.

[_Rexy_]

Dillian talks about struggle.what the heck those he know about struggle he's from the UK lol.

Spent his early years in Jamaica.

[Robbie Barrett]

He was shot and he took the bullet out himself when he was a young teen and his mother didn't know? What a load of bollocks.

[*Makaveli*]

He got shot with a potato gun and stabbed with a plastic knife. Tough guy eh

[FlatLine]

He was shot and he took the bullet out himself when he was a young teen and his mother didn't know? What a load of bollocks.

1. Examine the wound. Do your best to decide if you should try and remove it. If it's not bleeding much, and too deep, maybe you shouldn't take it out. Sometimes, taking out a bullet by yourself is worse than leaving it in, as the bullet could be stopping the bleeding.

But, if the bleeding won't stop, you might decide you need to dig out the bullet and cauterize the wound. It will develop a terrible infection otherwise. Remember, you're miles from anywhere. If you decide to remove the bullet(s), then keep reading. Hopefully, you have a container of whiskey and your Bowie knife. Or an Ice Pack.
2. Numb the wound with the ice pack

3. Build a campfire, if possible. Build a small fire using twigs and leaves with larger dried branches on top. Create a spark on the leaves and twigs by striking your knife on a rock. Blow on it as soon as the cinders start to catch. This may take a while if you're not good at it so be persistent.

4. Apply Whiskey and Dig. Take several swigs of whiskey to dull the pain of what you are about to do. Pry the bullet out with a knife. Try your best not to cut any veins, and try looking for them before you dig. This is liable to hurt like nothing you've ever felt before, but don't give up. You can do it.

5. Apply Heat. Once the bullet is removed, you need to sterilize and close the wound. The best way to do this under the circumstances is with fire. Heat up your knife blade until it's red hot. Apply it to the open wound, effectively searing it shut.

[_Rexy_]

He was shot and he took the bullet out himself when he was a young teen and his mother didn't know? What a load of bollocks.

Didn’t read that far, but Christ that’s ridiculous. He would have gone into shock the second he tried to touch the wound.

And my mom knew if I spilled some damned sauce on my shirt. No way am I coming home with a bullet hole in my chest and my mom not noticing

[_Rexy_]

1. Examine the wound. Do your best to decide if you should try and remove it. If it's not bleeding much, and too deep, maybe you shouldn't take it out. Sometimes, taking out a bullet by yourself is worse than leaving it in, as the bullet could be stopping the bleeding.

But, if the bleeding won't stop, you might decide you need to dig out the bullet and cauterize the wound. It will develop a terrible infection otherwise. Remember, you're miles from anywhere. If you decide to remove the bullet(s), then keep reading. Hopefully, you have a container of whiskey and your Bowie knife. Or an Ice Pack.
2. Numb the wound with the ice pack

3. Build a campfire, if possible. Build a small fire using twigs and leaves with larger dried branches on top. Create a spark on the leaves and twigs by striking your knife on a rock. Blow on it as soon as the cinders start to catch. This may take a while if you're not good at it so be persistent.

4. Apply Whiskey and Dig. Take several swigs of whiskey to dull the pain of what you are about to do. Pry the bullet out with a knife. Try your best not to cut any veins, and try looking for them before you dig. This is liable to hurt like nothing you've ever felt before, but don't give up. You can do it.

5. Apply Heat. Once the bullet is removed, you need to sterilize and close the wound. The best way to do this under the circumstances is with fire. Heat up your knife blade until it's red hot. Apply it to the open wound, effectively searing it shut.

Yeah, that’s totally something a 13 year old could do successfully on his own. Especially back when there was no internet, this is just common knowledge...

[champion4ever]

He's from the rough side of England it appears; The district of Brixton. It sounds to me that he has had a hard knock life.

[alexguiness]

In all honesty I am finding it really hard to respect a guy who 'fathered' a child at 13 years old.

he has clearly had a tough life, but this sort of article paints him as some kind of redeemed hero, rising from the streets of South London to escape gang violence and poverty.

The truth is he was probably a total kunt lol.