Boxing Incidents That've Made You Cry

I missed that. If there was one moment in Sports/History that I wish I could go back and see, that would be it.

We ordered Hagler - Mugabi and had friends and family over for the fight. My mom had a bowl of scented potpourri out and my uncle thought it was something he should eat. When he got a piece stuck in his throat I'm pretty sure I laughed so hard I cried.

 

when lennox lewis knocked out razor ruddock...........i hit depression.:smoke:smoke:smoke:smoke

 

This actually happened outside the ring. Years after the tragedy of Jimmy Garcia in the Gabriel Ruelas fight, I talked to Gabriel and asked how it affected him.

The look on his face, and his reply, still breaks my heart:

GR: "When I was at the hospital, Jimmy Garcia's mother came. I reached over to comfort her. She said, 'Don't touch me with those hands that killed my son.' "

How'd you like to live with that?

 

I saw footage of a pathetic looking Joe Louis dressed in a suit and cowboy hat in Vegas in what must have been late 60's early 70's, he walks slowly away from the camera. Something about it just struck me as very sad, what he had become by this time, reduced to a greeter at Caesars Palace. Many countless other boxers have had far more worse endings but something about this footage I found particularly sad

 

In general, life sucks when you get old

 

I wonder if anyone cried after Willard knocked out Johnson

 

Tell me about it.

 

Something to look forward to then:-(

 

When both Alexis Arguello and Erik Morales sat on the canvas and stayed there, waiting to be counted out, they had fallen at the hands of a younger, fresher non-stop wrecking machine, and knew that there was no reason to continue. Considering all the tough fights and wars each man was in before, it was quite sad that they had realized in the worst way that it was over, and their fighting spirit had left them.

 

When i was told about Kid Akeem Anifowoshe dying, i wept like a child....

 

Olivers breakdown against Lennox Lewis, i don't ever wanna see a man shoved into a ring to face a 250 pound man with mental health problems ever again.. He didn't want to go in the ring that night, Carl King almost forced Ollie to take the walk that night, I'll never forgive the ******* for that...

 

The passing of Leavander Johnson, i spoke to Leavander just hours before that fight.. He was an Ill man due to drug abuse, but he was too young to be taken..

 

Hearns vs Duran, the last two rounds of the Thrilla,
and that Documentary of Joe Louis ( never knew how screwed he was
in taxes) i wouldn't say i cried over these events, but i did feel
pretty damn bad after watching them. :verysad

 

Johnny Tocco passing,
Diego Corrales passing,
Big Al Williams passing,
Jerry Ballard passing,
Vincent Ekoubia (moses) passing,
James Broad passing,
Mister Futch passing.............

All very close to my heart.. and all died since 1997..

I love them more than i can express..