Boxing's Heavyweight Drinkers

I'm not saying Morrison died from alcohol. I was just pointing him out as an alcoholic with the malnourished look.

 

I wasn't saying you were saying he died from alcohol.
I was just pointing out that you are comparing a guy who drank himself to death against a guy who was known to be drinking too much.
For all we know Morrison may have been able to live for another 30 or 40 years drinking like he did.

Anyway, I agree with the other point. Even for a guy drinking himself to death, the Lynch photo stretches credibility.

 

bobby chacon was a little guy who was a big drinker as well.

 

Bernard "super bad" Mays was argueably the best talent to ever come outta Kronk but drank himself to death at age 34.

 

michael dokes whiskey and cocaine

 

Some guys handle it better, but almost everyone it harms & at least reduces their overall success & longevity. I do not know if Louis & Liston could have lasted as dominant even longer clean, but Liston peaked for an Ali rematch & when Ali was injured he hit the bottle heavy & was never the same...At the LEAST it takes its toll later, maybe when Iron Mike was very young it did not hurt him, but he trained very hard & was very young...And was STILL very young when all the partying caught up with him in Tokyo.

Bottom line is it is bad for body, mind & soul. The vast majority who drink heavily are not just dealing with a physical addiction, but a way to numb bad feelings & feel better, reaching a fake & destructive inner comfort due to problems in regulating mod & dealing with emotions.

Folks spend their whole lives juvenilzed due to drugs AND the inner demons they often refuse to struggle with. At least far in the past there WAS little science about how to stop drugging (drinking being a very destructive drug when not in great moderation), & there was much more limited knowledge & resources about psychology.

Yeah easy for me to say I never liked any substances. But they also have a big foothold due to the emotional demons & delusions people keep untreated.

 

alcoholic all through his career...from 16 I read.

 

Like a bad diet, drinking is easier to get away with when you're young. ****, at that age you're bulletproof and you know it. You CAN get away with it when you're a kid, so it emboldens you. You figure, "Well, that wasn't too bad, it didn't affect me at all" and so you feel okay about doing it again. And again. You might even get away with it those times as well.

It's about longevity. Do you want to be able to stick around for a while, or do you want to burn out quick, like Bernard Mays or Mando Ramos? Those guys should have been more and weren't. And I absolutely guarantee you they held the same feelings I described in my first paragraph. Just a pity none of this is ever seen ahead of time.

 

John L fell off the back of a train once, woke up in the middle of nowhere.

 

Well yeah, but who among us hasn't at some point?

 

Hopefully most of us!

 

A form of overtraining?

 

it built character to sleep rough on the side of a train track.

 

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A two track mind?

 

:good

Just picturing him coming round.

Where the **** am I?