Top ten craziest boxers in history your list

Henke67 · Mar 8, 2012

PityTheFool said: ↑

Ike's "monarch" complex matches almost anyone for crazy/funny.
How someone can say he doesn't deserve to be on this list is crazy in itself.
Ike's madder than an inbred ferret with rabies.
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I'd love to have been a fly on the wall when Ike and his manager met with the HBO executives in some restaurant where, out of nowhere, he plunged a steak knife into the table.

I read an interview with him a couple of years ago from jail - he really sounded like he lives in an alternative reality.

KINGOFTHE1ROUND · Mar 8, 2012

irishny said: ↑

James Butler surely deserves a mention!
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Yeah considering he killed a guy with a hammer

Golden Boy 360 · Mar 8, 2012

How about Clifford Etienne?

Valero, Ike, and Butler should be there?

Golden Boy 360 · Mar 8, 2012

On August 11, 2005, Fightnews.com reported Etienne's ring career likely over with the following story:

Well known heavyweight Clifford Etienne was arrested Wednesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on charges of armed robbery, kidnapping and the attempted murder of a police officer. Etienne allegedly robbed a local business, car-jacked a vehicle containing a woman and her children, then pulled a gun on police officers. He is being held in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison with a $70,000 bond.

On June 22, 2006, following his trial in Baton Rouge, Etienne was found guilty and sentenced to 150 years in prison without parole for a cocaine fueled crime spree that included robbing a check cashing business, carjacking and kidnapping a family, and attempting to shoot two policemen

box101 · Mar 8, 2012

irishny said: ↑

James Butler surely deserves a mention!
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That pieace of **** deserves no mention he wasnt crazy he is an idiot sick mother****er a true discrace to the sport

DogTheBountyMan · Mar 8, 2012

Butler
Ike
McCall
Monzon
Valero
Gevor
Gatti
Tapia
Pryor

henrik · Mar 8, 2012

Gatti???

Danmann · Mar 8, 2012

John Galt said: ↑

Charlie "the Devil" Green.

http://www.thesweetscience.com/article-archive/2005/2568-the-devil-and-charlie-devil-green
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Thank you very much !!!! I was going crazy trying to recall his name. He was total nut. :good

good · Mar 8, 2012

Golden Boy 360 said: ↑

On August 11, 2005, Fightnews.com reported Etienne's ring career likely over with the following story:

Well known heavyweight Clifford Etienne was arrested Wednesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on charges of armed robbery, kidnapping and the attempted murder of a police officer. Etienne allegedly robbed a local business, car-jacked a vehicle containing a woman and her children, then pulled a gun on police officers. He is being held in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison with a $70,000 bond.

On June 22, 2006, following his trial in Baton Rouge, Etienne was found guilty and sentenced to 150 years in prison without parole for a cocaine fueled crime spree that included robbing a check cashing business, carjacking and kidnapping a family, and attempting to shoot two policemen
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wow..harsh i never knew this..just go's to show you why to say no to drugs,,

nastynas · Mar 8, 2012

+ Mysterious Billy Smith

Thread Stealer · Mar 8, 2012

Here's a passage from an ESPN article showing what a lovely, stable individual Ike Ibeabuchi was.

Distraught over a perceived snub in the WBC rankings two months after he beat Tua, Ibeabuchi slammed his car into a concrete pillar on Interstate 35 north of Austin, Texas. With him was an ex-girlfriend's 15-year-old son.

The boy suffered "numerous injuries" from the accident "and will never walk normally again," according to the criminal complaint. Ibeabuchi was charged with kidnapping and attempted murder, but the courts concluded he was trying to commit suicide, and he was sentenced to 120 days after pleading guilty to false imprisonment. He paid a $500,000 civil settlement.

"It was a very frustrating case because what he did wasn't as clearly criminal as what I expected him to get involved with down the line," said District Attorney John Bradley, who prosecuted Ibeabuchi.

"I fully expected that his contact with the criminal justice system had not ended with our county. We weren't able to get him examined, but it sure seemed to me -- even if he was a heavyweight boxer looking at making millions of dollars -- that he should have been committed to a psychiatric community and treated."

That incident, Merchant says, "began to peel away the skin of the onion."

Ibeabuchi developed a new persona based on his nickname, "The President." At times when he was being churlish or refusing to complete a simple requirement such as attending a weigh-in, his handlers would appeal to The President's regal nature by convincing him it was the noble thing to do.

"There were times when he thought he was really a president," DiBella says. "He would get into these mental states where he insisted on people calling him The President. It was his alter ago, where 'I am The President,' not of the United States, but maybe the world."

tories began to circulate that both Ibeabuchi and his mother both were seeing demons. Promoter Cedric Kushner says Ibeabuchi on two occasions had to be literally dragged onto airplanes before fights because of perceived demonic forces.

Then there was the time Ibeabuchi wielded a knife during a dinner meeting in New York to discuss a possible three-fight HBO deal.

"We were having a fine meal at a nice restaurant," Kushner says, "and mid-course Ike picked up a big carving knife, slammed it into the table and screamed 'They knew it! They knew it! The belts belong to me! Why don't they just give them back.'

"That was a peculiar experience," Kushner says. "That wasn't the type of conduct I expected to romance the guy from HBO. (Ibeabuchi) was like a Viking."

Three months after his decisive triumph over Byrd, Ibeabuchi had more trouble at an airport, and this time it wasn't the demons that refused to let him on board.

His flight out of Dallas-Fort Worth was overbooked, and he didn't take kindly to the news. As he stormed wildly through the terminal, police threatened him with pepper spray.

"You better shoot me," he replied. They sprayed him in the eyes and handcuffed him.
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Slacker · Mar 9, 2012

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madkillaz692000 · Mar 9, 2012

Quali should be there

arightballsup · Mar 9, 2012

Tony Ayala Jr

Furey · Mar 9, 2012

No James Butler, Valero, Monzon or Ayala?

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