The Tortured Soul of Edwin Valero

Curious how you manage to reconcile these 2 states of mind.

Every day, 20 veterans commit suicide.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran_suicide

 

Firstly I'm not saying I ever killed anybody. Secondly -- I don't/havent managed to reconcile them yet. Its a total mind ****. Deployment is wicked boring, except for the contact, and you come to love it and crave it the more boring it gets and the more time that passes between TIC's and the intensity. You get back and hate yourself for loving the same instances that took your friends lives.

Being a vet, im as pro-vet as you will find but the stats dont show everything. A lot of the veteran suicides today are committed by Vietnam era vets more than my generation. There are exceptions, but the Vietnam era guys are the ones generally driving that stat through the roof.

Anyways, I'm the last pwrson who should talk in regards to managing things in my post-military life. Besides the last three years of sobriety that ive managed, I had been addicted to drugs and alcohol and in and out of jail constantly/always. If we weren't as lucky as we are to have such incredible resources available to us I wouldnt be where I am today, which would impress few here but to me something that im personally proud of considering how hard ive had to work at it and what ive put my family and friends through.

 

Bum inside and outside the ring.

 

There were a few fights in which he showed some solid craft in there. As if he had an actual boxing IQ.
But then he just ran face first into DeMarco until the lesser man crumbled. Maybe his mental issues had already taken a toll, might explain why he fought that way.

 

Such a sad story. Sounds like his downfall was the product of his binge drinking. Very sad and talented fighter but even when legless drunk you have to have SERIOUS issues to murder tour wife and then commit suicide. I'm not passing judgement on the man, I dont have the right to, some of you may have earned that right but I certainly haven't. So sad all the way around.

 

I’d really like to see an autopsy of Valero’s brain.

 

i can identify with all youve said. the only mental state i can equate to being out on patrol is the alertness you live under in prison, you develop eyes in the back of your head. it took me a while before i stopped looking for places to sit that allowed me to see everything around me whenever i was in a public place. i also got into drugs and adrenaline chasing when i got out of the service. i was an adrenaline junkie to begin with, thats why i joined parachute infantry. 11 bravo 1 papa.

 

Good stuff brother. My father was an 11 bang bang with the 82nd in Vietnam. I was a 0311 24/7 for 3 pumps to Iraq andbthen did one pump as a line corpsman in Afghanistan with 1\6 A. Greatest and worst times of my life. And I can totally relate to the alertness you describe right after you finish a bid/stretch, but I was never a badass that went up state, only county but ya earily similar. Man if feels really good hearing from other vets on here, especially infantry/combat arms. Thanks for your post man I cant tell you how much it helped my day out.

 

hooah!

 

This content is protected

Some footage from Yoel Finol's second pro bout here, I've been tracking his story the last several years out of curiosity;

This content is protected

"I have forgiven him. Although he killed my sister, I forgave him. At first I did not understand why he did it. I felt anger, but I found God and learned to forgive him.

He taught me to throw punches, taught me the basics, and took me street-fighting to make me a man. He wanted me to become world champion and be my agent.

The drugs damaged him and changed him because he was not a bad person. These things happen in life and only God knows why.

The road is long and uphill, but I have taken the first step. God took from me my dear sister and my brother-in-law Edwin, but he gave me something in return – to be better."

Edwin was framed.

In all seriousness, I don't know if he was or not. I do know that I wouldn't trust that country's authorities. And that Jennifer Carolina had previously been shot at while minding her business in her garden, if memory serves me well.

 

Valero never had ATG potential.

 

meh

 

I would say fairly easy. Can’t think of any current champs treating their women bad, they’re treated like queens

Valero’s upbringing, cocaine habit, possibly psychopathic nature caused this. Ok maybe he had brain trauma who knows. Still a coward POS