They share parallels: Very talented and knocking on the door of P4P lists and big fights. Sky is the limit. They seem to possess the ability to handle any opponent and greatness awaits. Then out of the ring troubles forever scuttle their careers and we never find out if they would meet the potential they exhibited. Judgement has yet to be rendered for Edwin Valero. Will he end up like the sad cases of such fighters as: Ike Ibeabuchi Tony Ayala Scott Harrison Something Hilton(forgot his first name) All their promising careers were forever halted by incarceration
Did Ibeabuchi slaughter his kids mother? Valero is beyond any of those guys, he's beyond despicable. What he's done can't be forgiven, ever.
valero is a great talent, but he's also a crazy mother****er. obviously his boxing career is over. if it's true he killed his wife, then he should remain behind bars for the rest of his life. this is a tragedy. a young mother has been brutally murdered.
I wasn't making any moral comparison....just saying that if the accusations are true then he'll be added to that list of scintillating talent that never would be due to out of the ring trouble. He'll be lucky he ever sees the sunlight as a free man if this is all true. He'll most likely end up institutionalized should he be proven truly nuts
Someone couldn't have said it any better on another thread.....Valero is the next Carlos Monzon. Except that Monzon waited until his career was complete and his greatness as a fighter was proven and established before killing his wife
Ibeabuchi's career was cut short in 2001 when he pleaded guilty to battery with intent to commit a crime and attempted sexual assault, after an incident involving a lap dancer who refused to take a check for 'services' in Ibeabuchi's room at the Treasure Isalnd Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Ibeabuchi was sentenced to 2 to 10 years on the first charge (paroled in 2001) and three to 20 years on the second charge (parole denied three times). On January 1, 1983, Ayala burglarized the home of his neighbour, a young schoolteacher, and brutally sexually assulted her. In 2000, he was shot in the shoulder by a young woman after breaking into her home. He received probation and a brief jail term for this offense. Scott Harrison's problems with drink, drugs and the law continued to spiral out of control, and he was stripped of both his WBO title and his licence to box, as well as being declared bankrupt. In 2001, Davey Hilton, the former World Boxing Council super-middleweight title-holder was sentenced to seven years for sexually assaulting his two daughters when they were minors.
