BOXING: Tragic Stories

Thank you for pointing out all of the self righteousness & hypocrisy of those who are bashing The G-Man after his tragedy. If he had just eaten the damn dogs after bashing the life out them (like we do pigs,cows,chickens,etc..) would they cut him some slack? There is certainly a market for dog meat out there. Go to a slaughterhouse before you trash someone 'unmercifully' for killing a dog maybe.

IF the man did what was alleged(some of it sounds exaggeratted) it is certainly a bad thing ,but he can not defend himself against these allegations ,so why continue to crucify him? I know some athletes (like Leonard Little of the NFL) who have actually murdered,beaten,abused,etc... humans & get less time in jail or elicit as much hatred as G Man or Vick. (Little got 90 days in jail for Manslaughter & a measley 4 game suspension:yikes)


BATTLIN SIKI(1st african world champion) who knocked out Georges Carpentier to become LHW champion was shot in the back & died in the gutter of a NEW YORk city street at age of 27/28.

 

Nar sorry, i think what Mclellan did was terrible, to the dogs, evil evil man he was. Im not gunna start saying **** about what he deserved, because im not kicking someone while he's down, but i got no problem with anyone else doing it.

 

I remember reading about what happened in an old Ring mag.

 

Totaly agree on the Mcclelland bit nobody deserves that.
I read Ezzard Charles once won a fight that cost a man his life and that Charles donated a percentage of all his subsiquent earnings to the mans family.Barry maguigan also suffered a lot after the death of an opponent,i think he was called young Ali.

 

I thought AA was found dead in the shower of a gym in Nigeria after a sparring session?

 

on the regards of the mclellan he had it coming argument becoming such a solid and devastating world champion kinda cements that karma didnt mind it.

 

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this picture freaks me out every time.i always thought it was a photoshopped image. but i am assured that he is only 32 there.
destroyed by drink.
makes me so sullom

 

A slightly more obscure one is the story of Chuck Wiggins.

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He was a tough scrappy fighter who mixed it up with Harry Greb nine times and somtimes bested him at his own game. He lived riotously outside the ring and was always drinking and getting into fights. Jack Dempsey described him as "the best street fighter who ever lived". Despite this is was a generous man and always splashed the cash around his local neighbourhood.

After his boxing career he became something of a local drunk and was constantly in fights with the police. On one ocasion he is purported to have knocked out twelve police officers who came to arest him.

In the end he got into one too many fights with the police and was found dead at the bottom of a stairwell under a wall where he used to sit with his head caved in. Bystanders reported before the incident that he was sitting on his wall and a cop was seen walking down the street towards him billy club in hand. They knew what was going to happen.

 

Alexis Arguello! Who would of thought he'd find his way onto this thread when it started.

 

Such a gentleman as well....I understand he had a drug problem, but he wasn't cruel to others. Great man, great fighter, great, great shame.

 

True. Knowing nothing about him, I assumed he'd died after the Quiroga fight...the way he collapsed afterwards was frightening. Only after searching up did I find out he died afterwards.

 

no way...32!!..there??....nah...thats not him, is it ??

 

If so it's unbelievable. He even has the hair of an old man