Fighters who killed opponents in the ring

they are never the same. How can they be..

 

Teddy Reid

 

Quite grim really, this boxing business! ..

 

Most have already been mentioned.
Alan Minter, Jess Willard and Marlon Starling were also involved in tragic fights.

 

The one I remember the most was watching Chris Calvin knockout Shawn Thomas on ESPN and Thomas hit his head on the canvas and never recovered. There is actually a video from just a couple years ago on YouTube where Calvin discusses the effect it had on him personally and how it derailed his passion for boxing.

 

Sadly, that is no where near true.

 

I was talking about the incidents which happened on the highest level or let's say Hall of Famers or famous boxers were involved.
Of course it happened hundreds of times.

 

Beat me to it, scar. Jose Blanco and Moore. I was going to start a thread on Moore vs Ramos actually. Brilliant but tragic fight. All action but with some amazing skill on display, mostly on the offensive side with terrific punch resistance and recuperation too. Great talents, both of them.

I can't really watch the end of fights like Owen-Pintor and Griffith-Paret, but this one is worse in it's own way. Moore seems ok, all compos mentis and everything and even gives that poignant little post-fight interview. Ramos had called him a great champion and wanted to give him a rematch I think. Then the poor bloke just collapsed in his changing room holding his head, and that was it. Awful.

 

The freaky thing about the SRR v Jimmy Doyle tragedy is that Robinson had a dream in the week leading up to the fight that he killed Doyle in the ring and was so deeply disturbed that he had to be talked out of pulling out of the fight by his team - thats just some **** that cant ignored or written off as coincidence .

 

Name Nationality Death Year Championship Class Opponent
Pedro Alcázar
Panamanian 2002 WBO super flyweight Fernando Montiel
Simon Byrne Irish 1833 heavyweight James Burke
Frankie Campbell American 1930 Heavyweight Max Baer
Lavern Roach American 1950 Middleweight Georgie Small
Yo-Sam Choi South Korean 2008 Light-flyweight Heri Amol
Benjamín Flores Mexican 2009 NABF super bantamweight Al Seeger[82]
Leavander Johnson American 2005 IBF lightweight Jesús Chávez
Duk Koo Kim South Korean 1982 lightweight Ray Mancini
Alexander McKay Scottish 1830 heavyweight Simon Byrne
Davey Moore American 1963 featherweight Sugar Ramos
James Murray British 1995 bantamweight Drew Docherty
Johnny Owen British 1980 bantamweight Lupe Pintor
Kevin Payne American 2006 welterweight Ryan Maraldo
Benny Paret Cuban 1962 welterweight Emile Griffith
Henri Piet French 1915 lightweight unknown
Tosh Powell British 1928 bantamweight Billy Housego
Harry Price South African 1913 welterweight Johnny Basham
Francisco Rodriguez Mexican 2009 USBA super bantamweight Teon Kennedy
Martín Sánchez Mexican 2005 super featherweight Rustam Nugaev
Ed Sanders American 1954 heavyweight Willie James
Angelito Sisnorio Filipino 2007 lightweight Chatchai Sasakul
Robert Wangila Kenyan 1994 welterweight David Gonzales
Roman Simakov Russian 2011 heavyweight Sergey Kovalev
Marco Antonio Nazareth Mexican 2009 Light welterweight Omar Chavez

I know there's a better list than this, on boxrec or somewhere, that literally lists every single ring death.

 

Leotis Martin killed Sonny Banks, twho was the first man to knock Clay down in a professional fight.

Willie James killed Ed Sanders, 1952 Olympic heavyweight champion, in a pro fight in 1954. (James was KO'd in 2 rounds two months later by Bob Baker and retired from the ring).

 

Willie Classen from the Wilford Scypion fight and Kiko Bejines from the Albert Davila fight.

 

I remember a popular welterweight in Britain called Rocky Kelly killed a fighter called Steve Watt in the mid-1980s.

 

Lou Ambers (Tony Scarpati)
Jorge Vaca (Gerardo "Dracula" Derbez)

 

Did any of these guys actually die in the ring? More or less instantaneously or immediately after the KO?