Fighters who overcame serious disabilities or illneses to win at a world level

They are certainly more brittle than the average hand, not severely so though -fullstop-

 

shannon briggs with his asthma, managed to win 2 world titles

 

Beat me to it!

 

Harry Greb, blind in one eye since being thumbed by Kid Norfolk.
Paulino Uzcudon,unable to throw a jab ,as a result of an accident with an axe when young,fought many top rated heavies.

 

Yeah, it's pretty well known that this injury was the genesis of Paulino's signature cross-armed defense, but it's somewhat difficult to view that as a disability, in light of the fact that Joe Frazier also had an early injury which prevented him from straightening out his left arm. Some people turn supposed handicaps into strengths to be taken advantage of, rather than weaknesses to be overcome, and I think Paulino may fall into the former category. In any event, there doesn't seem to be too much made about Uzcudun's arm after Frazier's successes. (Paulino probably built himself up as a child brawling with his 220 pound sister Pauline, also a woodchopper.)

 

You are correct. Lights had to be put on the ring posts to alert him of the bell at the end of the rounds.

Former Bantamweight champion Mario D'Agata was also a deaf mute.

 

Two who come to mind are Paul Pender and Tommy Loughran for having very brittle hands and fighting on with broken bones.

Joe Brown broke his right hand in the second round against Wallace Smith. He fought to the 14th without using his right but dropped Smith twice in the 14th with right hands to pull out the fight. They had to cut the glove off the badly swollen hand and he was in tears at the pain.

 

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Did Scholz wind-up in prison for murdering his wife?

 

I think Tommy Gomez merits a mention. On February 6, 1945, Gomez suffered 16 bullet wounds to his arms, back, chest, and legs. He recovered well enough to make it into the top ten heavyweights after the war.

 

Billy Miske he deserves a mention very brave man ,well done for reminding us!

 

Havent got the article to hand Janitor ,think it was an old Boxing Illustrated piece,which was really about Paulinos blast out by Joe Louis,will try to dig it out.