Fighters who became drug dependent

McCall, Cobb and Pryor were all heavily involved in drugs.

 

Pernell

 

Benitez had a huge amount of coke trouble didn't eh?

 

........An addict for perhaps a different reason was of course Barney Ross. He was wounded as a U.S. marine on Guadalcanal, and got hooked on the painkillers they gave him in the hospital. Spent years afterward trying to kick it. He did eventually.

 

Do you count 'roids and HGH?

 

Bert Cooper got pretty bad drug wise.

Supposedly was awake for 48 hours or some such having a hotel room party with whores and coke right before he fought Foreman.

 

you named pryor but you forgot to name arguello?

both battled cocaine addiction in which arguello almost die from it.

i've heard a rumor joe louis did drugs, i'm not sure if it's real or not.

 

I reckon the effects of years of boxing would make most fighters dependent on some kind of drug (legal or otherwise). It is like professional wrestlers, they abuse their bodies so much in the ring over many years, their older years are filled with pain.

 

Barney Ross... pain killers??? I dont believe Heroin is a listed pain killer.

 

Nunn....

 

As Barney Ross was afflicted with drugs of dependance, Joe Louis succombed to the same.. HEROIN..... and both men have stated VERY clearly and openly during their recorvered years what they suffered through..

 

Well, I always thought Barney was on Oprium?

If you count alcohol and aspirin as drugs then the German jmw WBC champion Eckhard Dagge is your man. He was an alcoholic and aspirin-abuser throughout his career. Even during training camps he just vanished for a few days, then came back in the morning drunk and full of pills and beat the **** out of his sparring partners for the rest of his day. He also was a bit of a masochist since he always needed to get a beating before he really started fighting. LAter he would become trainer of Dariusz Machaelchewski but got fired when his habbits rubbed of on DM. He dies in the late 90s because of cancer.

 

holyfield
rjjr
shane mosley an the list may continue

 

srl was on coke