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  1. Bigcheese

    Bigcheese Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Well even if he wasn't diagnosed, it seems obvious he suffers from depression with the extreme weight gain and the bizarre things he says.
     
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  2. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    I think it's fair to say he's a pathological liar, which is a legitimate psych diagnosis.
     
  3. Richard M Murrieta

    Richard M Murrieta Now Deceased 2/4/25 Full Member

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    Joe Frazier was watching Roberto Duran when he was the reigning WBA Lightweight Champion in 1972. Joe stated that Duran had the look in his eyes of Charles Manson, because when he hit his opponents he had that look in his eyes. I have posted that before. Joe said that Duran gave him the creeps.
     
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  4. Bulldog24

    Bulldog24 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Nigel Benn
     
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  5. Noel857

    Noel857 I Am Duran

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    Mike Tyson typified by his rant after the Lou Savarese fight
     
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  6. Journeyman92

    Journeyman92 Mauling Mormon’s banned Full Member

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    Jake LaMotta was a cold son of a b*tch. I'd venture to say he'd be on the spectrum of say a sociopath, psychopath and he might just get it jotted down on official documents, it is if you could get him in with a shrink. In a tough era of life he wasn't just tough, he was blood thirsty, animalistic and just terrible to an excess. I don't think a more unlikable, mentally unwell, yet revered fighter has ever existed. P4P#1 Boxing Looney. /Thread
     
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  7. janitor

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    I am certain that he has bipolar disorder.

    It is hard to imagine a more textbook example than him!
     
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  8. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Just seems like histrionic behavior to me. It’s not like he’s out there getting arrested.
     
  9. TheWorstEver(TWE)

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    Stanley Ketchel was a psychopath.
     
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  10. janitor

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    People with bipolar disorder don't necessarily engage in criminal behavior.

    I mean Winston Churchill wasn't going out and getting arrested.
     
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  11. NoNeck

    NoNeck Pugilist Specialist

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    Same wife. No cheating/prostitutes. No arrests. No suicide attempts. No rehab. No bankruptcy. Never got cancelled. Obesity, drug abuse/alcoholism vanished immediately once his boxing license came back. Consistency in the ring. Never named a psych med, which is how bipolar is treated.

    It just doesn't add up to me. Overweight young men who like to drink and do coke is commonplace for England. Their culture practically dictates it.
     
  12. janitor

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    None of this is necessarily inconsistent with him having bipolar disorder.
     
  13. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Sugar Ray Leonard has talked openly about his demons
     
  14. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    George Foreman….watch the tape of him fighting 5 men in one night and tell me he’s not struggling with some issues
     
  15. Bronze Tiger

    Bronze Tiger Boxing Addict Full Member

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    He gets my vote for the best example