Fighters who overcame serious disabilities or illneses to win at a world level

[janitor]

Originally Posted by China_hand_Joe

A china chin is one thing, but becoming P4P number one with china hands is simply amazing -fullstop-

Dose Floyd Mayweather have particularly brittle hands?

[China_hand_Joe]

Originally Posted by janitor

Dose Floyd Mayweather have particularly brittle hands?

They are certainly more brittle than the average hand, not severely so though -fullstop-

[4eyes]

Originally Posted by Maurice

Evander Holyfield, right after he suffered that heart attack in the ring he was told he was never going to box again, but with steroid use he was back at a world title in no time!

[mario]

shannon briggs with his asthma, managed to win 2 world titles

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by dmille

Eugene Criqui was shot in the face during WW 1. He had his jaw reconstructed with wire and a metal plate. He went on to win the world featherweight title.

Beat me to it!

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by janitor

Give me the stories.

They will include a lot of verry tragic human interest stories.

Harry Greb, blind in one eye since being thumbed by Kid Norfolk.
Paulino Uzcudon,unable to throw a jab ,as a result of an accident with an axe when young,fought many top rated heavies.

[janitor]

Originally Posted by mcvey

Paulino Uzcudon,unable to throw a jab ,as a result of an accident with an axe when young,fought many top rated heavies.

Never heard that story.

Care to elaborate.

[Duodenum]

Originally Posted by mcvey

Paulino Uzcudon,unable to throw a jab ,as a result of an accident with an axe when young,fought many top rated heavies.

Yeah, it's pretty well known that this injury was the genesis of Paulino's signature cross-armed defense, but it's somewhat difficult to view that as a disability, in light of the fact that Joe Frazier also had an early injury which prevented him from straightening out his left arm. Some people turn supposed handicaps into strengths to be taken advantage of, rather than weaknesses to be overcome, and I think Paulino may fall into the former category. In any event, there doesn't seem to be too much made about Uzcudun's arm after Frazier's successes. (Paulino probably built himself up as a child brawling with his 220 pound sister Pauline, also a woodchopper.)

[OLD FOGEY]

Originally Posted by Nemesis

Was Eugene Hairston completely deaf???? or am i thinking of someone else from that era

You are correct. Lights had to be put on the ring posts to alert him of the bell at the end of the rounds.

Former Bantamweight champion Mario D'Agata was also a deaf mute.

[OLD FOGEY]

Two who come to mind are Paul Pender and Tommy Loughran for having very brittle hands and fighting on with broken bones.

Joe Brown broke his right hand in the second round against Wallace Smith. He fought to the 14th without using his right but dropped Smith twice in the 14th with right hands to pull out the fight. They had to cut the glove off the badly swollen hand and he was in tears at the pain.

[john garfield]

Originally Posted by tobkhan

Bubi Scholz overcame Tubercolosis to win the European Championship at middleweight and light heavyweight and a title shot at Harold Johnson´s World Championship.

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Did Scholz wind-up in prison for murdering his wife?

[OLD FOGEY]

I think Tommy Gomez merits a mention. On February 6, 1945, Gomez suffered 16 bullet wounds to his arms, back, chest, and legs. He recovered well enough to make it into the top ten heavyweights after the war.

[janitor]

Originally Posted by OLD FOGEY

I think Tommy Gomez merits a mention. On February 6, 1945, Gomez suffered 16 bullet wounds to his arms, back, chest, and legs.

How did he come by those.

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by Russell

What was the name of that boxer who fought Dempsey... He was basically dying on his feet during the later parts of his career, but he still did really well at a very high level.

Billy Miske he deserves a mention very brave man ,well done for reminding us!

[mcvey]

Originally Posted by janitor

Never heard that story.

Care to elaborate.

Havent got the article to hand Janitor ,think it was an old Boxing Illustrated piece,which was really about Paulinos blast out by Joe Louis,will try to dig it out.