Rocky Lockridge living on streets of Camden

I agree and have been asking for something like this for a while. Even if it doesn't help, it's at least a proactive attempt to steer these guys in the right way. Most come from nothing and get too much money too soon. Instead of allowing this to occur, an attempt should at least be made to curb the spending and help these guys set up future plans.

 

Take up heroin and you'll be plenty skinny with a lot of vasuclarness going on.

 

Yep.

It's not the same as the usual tragic story of the fighter who is cheated out of his earnings or exploited by his managers. In fact, Lockridge looks like he was in good position to have avoided that scenerio.

 

i hope he gets off drugs and alcohol, but he needs to be treated for those, sent to a rehab
Duva needs to help this man

 

very sad but as said above needs rehab and help, long term help

 

I've seen many a smackhead but very few with vascularity like that!

 

From the carefree days in Tacoma to the streets of Camden.
Another sad story in the rocky road of boxing.

The Rocky Lockridge story is a real life
"Rocky horror story".

 

Likely, it will be a long time coming.

Now that will be a true test for the character
of Lou Duva. So goes Rocky Lockridge,
so goes the future reputation of Duva.
And what is he prepared to do about it?

Question: Lou, Lou what you gonna do?atsch

 

Loud odnt need to do anything. Rocjy has been giving chances he just aint took them

 

Had no idea Rocky was in this condition.Hopefully, he can get the help he needs.Maybe Eusebio can help.

 

I too read the story in the Newark Star Ledger on 6-28-09 on Rocky Lockridge and like everybody else, it saddened me. I live in South Jersey now, and am about a half hour east of Camden. Yesterday my wife and children returned from a vacation and I had to pick them up at the airport in Philly. So after I got outta work yesterday I decided that on my way to the airport I would go to Camden first and see if I could see and meet Rocky. For those of you not familiar with the area, Camden is right next to Philadelphia with only the Delaware River separating the two cities. I drove past the intersection they said Rocky frequents, and I saw him. I was certain it was him because I got a good look at his face and I saw him walk, and he was walking with a pronounced limp that is a result of a stroke he suffered, as noted by the article. So I circled around the block again, but this time he was gone. I gave it one more try a few minutes later and didnt see him. After that I left, because it was an awful neighborhood and if they kept seeing me driving by they would think I was there for drugs because there is no other reason to go to that area, it is that bad. Very sad when I saw him walk, and hard to believe only 17 years earlier I saw him fight live at his last fight, that it was the same person.

 

Damn, it's pretty messed up what drugs can do to someone...
but after he retired he found a job, then he ****ed up by commiting burgalry not once but twice, and spent 24 hours in jail.

But anyway, i wish him the best and hopefully he can stay away from alcohol and drugs.

 

Sad, of course. And one would not be wrong to blame Lockridge for culpability in his own predicament.

But, Hells Bells, in his words, I have done my share of drinking and drugging, but at least in my chosen industry there is some sort of safety net. Also, my prime did not end at 27 years old, so I've had time to turn the tide and remain relatively successful. There is an ongoing self-evident destruction pattern of early fame at work here (MJ, anybody?). It's a bad recipe, one such organizations as the NFL or MLB spend millions on avoiding. Yet, in boxing, there is no such tutelage. This sport needs a UNION to protect these fighters who give so much, but are cast aside like refuse and never given the least bit of advise or mentorship.