Alexis Arguello commits suicide

wow what a tragedy

 

To watch Farrah Fawcett fight like hell for her life, then accept that Alex chose to blow his own away is too much to swallow. If this announcement of his death is authentic, what are the chances that history's most popular Nicaraguan was bumped off?

 

I know. It's crazy.

 

Very sad.

Didn't he tried to commit suicide before in the 90's?

RIP.

 

Given that he won a razor thin election to be mayor of the nation's capital just last fall with significant undertones of it being rigged, I'd say better than average. Ironically, he also won as a member of the same political party he took up arms against in the 1980's.

 

Arguello had manned up and admitted to some demons over the years, one of which was suicidal thoughts.

 

People can change their opinions, remember the Sandinistas froze and stole much of his boxing fortune.

I know there is a lot of concern, over his election, but perhaps today is not the day to discuss the matter?

 

I only mention it because I don't want to believe a great man like Alexis would commit suicide. And despite being a hero to many, there were still some with a motive to have him killed. I don't personally mind much about the election results as just election results, but it's what they represent as part of a dirtier game of politics that intrigues me.

I still can't believe that a man who'd overcome his demons like Alexis had would regress so fast- it just seems like a frame job to me, and if he didn't really kill himself, that's something that's important for people to know because Alexis wasn't a quitter- in any regard.

 

You know what? There are many great things to remember about the man, his triumphs, trial and tribulations, but maybe we should indeed be raising this to the rafters on this very day.

Sure, he admitted to having personal demons and suicidal thoughts, but CHAMPIONS DO NOT JUST GIVE UP! Alex was the definitive champion, never losing a title defense.

Jimmy Bivins was rescued from utter squalor and imprisoned neglect, weighing a mere 110 pounds. But he's still with us today, because even when isolated and virtually helpless, he had too much heart to cave in, as he himself so rightly declared about surviving his ordeal. (If you don't believe me, why don't you ask Jimmy himself? Feel free to E-mail him at:

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and your regards will be passed right along to the man himself.)

Are we to accept that Alexis Arguello was somehow different?

 

The first few seconds when I saw the headline a minute ago lasted an absolute eternity, my hands are ****ing shaking typing this. Can't think what else to type, I'm gutted.....

 

But perhaps that was sadly the difference; Bivens was rescued; Arguello seemed after winning his election and holding proud his countries flag in the 2008 Olympics, to be on top of the world. Perhaps the signs were not heeded or ignored, being seemingly at the top of your game, means (wrongly, sometimes) you are less likely to commit suicide.

Perhaps, seeing the physical deterioration of a 110lbs man, who used to be a wonderful athletic 190lber, makes more obvious, the warning signs of suicidal depression?

 

**** just logged on to be greeted with this news. Very sad. From all accounts a gent outside of the ring as much as he was a warrior inside it.

RIP a true legend of the sport.

 

Man, I don't know, but it seems to me he had a heckuva future, either in Nicaraguan politics, or as a goodwill ambassador for his country or boxing (a sport in desperate need of inspiring representation). This man was more famous in the United States than Barack Obama was until just a couple of years ago. (In fact, Alexis was more famous in the USA than Bill Clinton and George W. Bush before either of them ran for POTUS.) That dancing freak James Brown knock-off is nothing now. It's all about Alexis, and I'm going to be in shock for a while over this.

 

Lets be honest TBooze would of been pick-em with Barrack, as far as fame went pre 2007 Obama!

But, I know what you mean, Arguello helped in no small way with Latino boxing popularity in the States. As far as Latino's go, he was huge, and due to Network TV coverage of the late 70s/80s, he was widely exposed.

He rightly gets huge kudos for that, no Arguello makes JC Superstar's job harder and if he fails, then we do not have this glorious Latino revolution of the last decade.

Arguello may be a boxer of the 70s/80s, but in a lot of ways he was a pioneer to many of today's stars, ironically; the Jacksonesque character of boxing:

Best in the late 70s, when he was not quite at his mainstream peak. Peaking as a mainstream star in the early 80s, when he could still produce part of the magic, but was not what we hardcore remember, when Arguello was off the wall!

 

I believe Bivins was abandoned by his children to die until the police found him.

It's not really the same as Arguello's situation. Bivins was left to die but he did not want to die and never gave up. Arguello made the choice to take his own life, something he had contemplated previously in his life.

It did come as a surprise to me though. I thought Arguello was doing fine but now I've learned that he was under political pressure and suffered from depression.