Boxers who had happy post retirement lives

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  1. Eggman

    Eggman "The cream of the crop! Nobody does it better! Full Member

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    Most of the sky sports panel

    Andre Ward

    Kessler

    Sven ottke

    Valuev

    Clottey (yes he fought recently but in reality he’s retired)

    Tim Bradley
     
  2. manilavanilla

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    Michael Spinks is getting a lot of shouts, but if I remember right in 2011 it came out that Butch Lewis was spending Michael's money as if it were his own. I don't think much came out of the lawsuit filed by Spinks after that. Total shame.
     
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    Carl must be worth a fortune.
     
  4. Ken Ashcroft

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    I remember hearing him saying that he and his brothers were making a fortune in property investments even when he was still fighting.
     
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  5. Eddie Ezzard

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    Don't know why I like this anecdote so much but I do. Good old Larry. I'm glad the poster who didn't like him mentioned it because the responses in Larry's defence have all made me like him more.

    Before I came to this forum, I had Larry pegged as a misery and salty fellow. Glad, over the years. to learn I was wrong. Anecdotes about him invariably reveal a pleasant, affable, genuine man. That's what he dislikes so much about Foreman, isn't it? He considers him phony.
     
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  6. Devon

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    Tunney, Lewis, Marciano for a bit, Foreman, Eubank Sr, Mayweather Jr, Froch, Ward, McClellan and Stevenson Ha Ha joking about that one, David Haye there are probably more, it was karma for McClellan and Stevenson so don't come at me people