most crazy boxer

I'm an old-timer (58) who, thanks to my dad, had me into boxing as a 5/6 year old by the late 50's.
I remember a Lt. Heavy from the late 60's-early 70's named Ray "Windmill" White. Port-o-call was, I think, from the Pacific NW (Oregon/Washington)
The guy was a hoot to watch in virtually every bout!
Never got a title shot (he wasn't 'top-drawer') but fought a few contenders.
He played like he was hurt long before Ali only to blast an unsuspecting opponent on the way in.
In the clinches (hence his nickname) he would swat his opponent from behind his back with shots to the head.
Don't know if any footage is available but I'm going to look him up tonite and see how his career played out.
Good post Luke!

 

Carlos Monzon

 

:deal

 

Lobster Thermidor

 

I know who John Garfield would pick (hell, we ALL know), so I'll throw in another name, Bruce Curry. He was in sharp decline, then lost his marbles to finally become a champion at 140. Billy Costello had to really beat the **** out of him to lift that title, but I wasn't sure it was going to happen until the actual end, not because Bruce had heart, but because he was insane. Billy was boxing his ears off, and hammering him to hell, yet Bruce kept coming. He was nuts, and everybody knew it. (When he later went after his trainer, Jesse Reid, with a gun, nobody was surprised.)

 

Teddy Atlas, as a trainer rather than a boxer.

He took a gun to threaten a young Mike Tyson.

He took a gun in search of Donnie Lalonde, but IIRC Lalonde wasn't home.

I think he has admitted to taking a gun after someone else, but not actually pulling it out.

It's not a coincidence that basically everyone the guy has ever worked with has ended up with an unhappy and premature parting of ways.

Not to mention his dramatics in the corner -- sitting on the stool, cell phone as a prop. This guy just screams "LOOK AT ME" rather than playing the support role to the fighter that he's hired to play.

As far as boxers, you have to consider Clifford "Black Rhino" Etienne. He took up boxing while serving a 40-year sentence for armed robbery (reduced to 10 for good behavior), rose up to fringe contendership until getting iced by Mike Tyson in one round and facing to journey status.

Couple of years after losing to Tyson, he goes on a cocaine binge -- not in and of itself all that crazy (but certainly ill-advised -- but this guy pulls a stick-up at a check-cashing story, car-jacks and kidnaps a family and then tries to shoot two policemen. He's serving 150 years without possibility of parole in Louisiana.

If Rhino's not one of the craziest, he is at the very least one of the biggest loser scum buckets to ever put on a pair of gloves.

 

Mayorga is an headcase and Duran was a nutter.

 

Vinny 'The Pazmanian Devil' Pazienza

Those 'steriods' he was taking,,,,,,,,,,not only went to his biceps,,,,,,,

some of that 'juice' got into his brain - or whatever was left of it.

He went from a 'slapping punching' 135 lb. Lightweight to a 'musclebound' 154 pounder.

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As did Hector Camacho, was was also as crazy as heck.

 

could you put fritzie zivic on this list ?...he was crazy inside the ring, but apparently apologetic afterwards outside it

 

Ricardo Mayorga

 

lew jenkins

 

I vote for Hector Camacho. The Macho Man was bat**** crazy...arrested for driving down a Florida road "whilst" getting a BJ.