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Nate Miller

FORMER WBA CRUISERWEIGHT CHAMPION

December edition 2008

Nate Miller, was born Aug. 3, 1963 the third youngest of eight children.  He was put into foster care at the tender age of six and lived in two different foster homes by the time he was sixteen years of age. When he attended school, he was not the best kid because he always had a playful attitude and liked getting attention. The attention always came when he got into trouble. Life was tough for him growing up in the foster care system . He was told that  one of his foster brothers was hit and killed, then he saw him laying in the street in his own puddle of blood. At the age of seventeen, Nate was able to meet his biological mother and family and found out that he had two brothers and five sisters. As the prodigy of the foster care system, his foster parents taught him good values and how to respect others. Just before graduating Nate was kicked out public school and sent to a disciplinary school for boys, but while on that journey, he was training to be a fighter. While in disciplinary school he learned character, and how to take charge of his actions, and responsibilities. While there he learned how to sew and made more clothes than the history of the school and had an outstanding attendance record.  After only a couple fights in the school, he gained respect from the other students and everyone began to like him. At the beginning of his boxing career he was only in it to make money, not knowing that he would become the world champion. He was number five in the country as a amateur heavyweight, with a punch like a pro-heavyweight. He didn’t have many amateur bouts and was able to achieve a major title as a pro's. While boxing he was able to travel to five different countries, to meet different people, and to increase the number of fans. As a professional, people told him that he would never be anything, and spoke very negative about him. Nate Miller never let what people said get him down, because of his faith and talent. He eventually proved them all wrong, by winning a golden glove title, and the AAU title and the silver gloves title. Then as a professional boxer he won the NABF title, the WBA title, fought for numerous other world titles and was later inducted into The Philadelphia Hall of Fame.