yea what a ducker just because hes dead thats no ****ing excuse get in there and fight pac you ******* foreman hooooooooooooooooooooooooook :smoke
It does effect a lot on him. Ray Mancini and Garbiel Luaras said that they don't want to fight anymore after they knew that their opponents were death at the hospitals.
The first death in the ring that happened in my time following boxing was when Jimmy Garcia died after fighting Gabe Ruelas. I remember Ruelas talked alot about how it shattered him mentally. Here's a recent article about him reflecting back on his career and the impact that tragedy had on him: Gabe Ruelas: "If It Wasn't For The Jimmy Garcia Tragedy I'd Still Be Fighting Today"
After Jimmy Doyle died at the hands of Sugar Ray Robinson an interviewer asked SRR a question: "At what point did you know you had Doyle in serious trouble?" He answered: "The moment he signed the contract...." That's boxing for you.
Yeah he had a premonition that he was going to kill him and wanted to pull out of the fight but a priest talked him into fighting.