Bizarre Boxing Deaths

He also shot his daughter before committing the suicide...

 

Poor benny lynch from scotland the flyweight world champ died at age 33 from starvation he lived rough in the streets of glasgow,sadly like so many fighters before and since he was a alcoholic.
Sadly people thinking they were being kind to him when they saw him in the pubs of glasgow,gave him drinks,when they should have been giving him a decent meal,shocking to think he died of malnutrition,when just a small time before he had been on top of the world.

 

Has no one mentioned Listons very shady death or did I miss it? Was it an overdose or was he taken out?

What abotu Ezzard Charles he seems to have died early

 

Former WBO super-bantamweight champion, Agapito Sanzchez, was shot by an off duty Police officer in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 2005.

 

We'll probably never know for sure; the official verdict was it was an overdose.

He had MS. Thankfully, the Beatles immortalised him on the cover of their Sgt. Pepper album, which means he'll be a face (if not a name) to people for centuries to come.

 

Chris Eubanks nearly suffocated when an opponents glove got stuck up his nose,does this qualify/

 

It's Liston on the cover, isn't it?

 

Yes its Liston,though Gerald Suster credits Charles in his book "Champions Of The Ring"

 

My mistake. I can't say I've ever actually seen the album.

 

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But that picture blurred for good on July 8, 1972. For one thing, nobody yet knows what Folley was doing at a motel in Tucson, two hours south of Chandler, with a man named Artis Broom, Broom’s wife Dorothy, and a Mesa woman named Ann Young.
Brown is recalled in Chandler as a typical celebrity “hanger-on” whose friendship with Folley puzzled those who knew the ex-contender. Broom had moved to Tucson, and Folley was visiting him at the Sands Motel. It was around midnight, and according to Tucson police, Folley and Broom were engaging in horseplay when an accident occurred.
“He and Brown were trying to see who was going to throw who in the water with his clothes on,” according to Sgt. Lyle Murphy of the Tucson Police Department.
Folley ended up in the water, and one of the women ran to the motel office and reported that he was badly hurt. An ambulance was called, and the former heavyweight contender was taken to a nearby hospital. At 1 a.m., 40-year-old Zora Folley died from his injuries.
They included, according to a statement given by the motel clerk to a Phoenix newspaper, a large bump on the forehead, a hole on top of Folley’s head, and another wound in the back on his head – pretty extensive damage for someone who ostensibly just hit his head falling into a swimming pool.
When he heard what happened to his friend, Lowell Huggins immediately drove to Tucson to check out the scene at the motel. But Tucson police would not allow him on the premises, which was not unusual since he was a Chandler policeman and out of his jurisdiction.
The autopsy report on Folley and the police report on what was officially ruled his accidental death are not available for examination today. The autopsy report was probably destroyed – standard procedure after the passage of so much time – and the police report, if it still even exists, can’t be accessed without the report number contained on the autopsy report.
Over the years, various dark theories and versions of what happened that night have circulated. A “mob” connection has been suggested by some; Jet magazine reported that when Folley died, two “suspicious” men were seen lurking around the motel. Others say that the Tucson police weren’t overly concerned about the death of a black man.
Joella Folley, Zora’s 71-year-old widow and still a Chandler resident, has never spoken publicly about what happened to her husband. Other family members and friends just shake their heads and prefer to remember how the city’s most famous resident lived, rather than how he died.

 

There's some strange **** going on there brother.

 

Cleveland Williams getting killed by a hit and run driver.The irony of this is, the Big Cat had just gotten out of dyalisis.Williams had only one kidney,since that cop blasted the other one out during a traffic stop in the 60's.So,if the cop hadn't shot Williams,maybe Cleve,wouldn't have needed to been at the dyalisis where he got killed.

 

A silly technical point; that is not irony, it is just tragic...

It may of been ironic as well, if driver of the hit and run had turned out to of been a cop...