What happened to Lamar Parks

He looked like he had great potential and could have been a world champion for sure. He had good power, he lost to Reggie Johnson but put up a good fight.


Oh yeah i think he was scheduled to fight McClellan sometime around '94 but Lamar caught teh HIV.

 

*** Here's a cool fact, in 1992 Reggie Johnson was one of the middleweight champions by defeating Steve Collins. Reggie Johnson wanted to make his first title defense against Roy Jones. But at that time Lamar Parks was Reggie's number one contender for the title and refused to step aside. Would have been a great fight, i think.


They talk about this during the Parks/Johnson fight.



**** Parks was also offered $50,000 just to step aside so Johnson and Jones could get it on but still refused. Lamar Parks was a good hungry young fighter during that time.

 

That was a great Middleweight class in the early 90's. Toney, Nunn, McCallum, Kalambay, Jackson, Johnson, Jones Jr., McClellan, Parks, Hopkins. I said GAWDAMN!!! Lamar Parks had potential, great potential.

 

Yeah that's some crazy talent right there. I have to say as well Roy Jones fought the two best fighters of that lot and beat them decisively Hopkins and Toney. So people should get off Roy's back.

 

I think Parks caught the spit from his bee-yatch in the early 1990s... I also think she died from AIDS later on.... Yes, its been a long 15 years since I last recollected about Parks... I have no clue what he looks like or his condition in 2011.... He never made big bucks in the ring...
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No media circus in '94 is easy to understand...... Parks was never a star of boxing; just a rising contender.... No Rock Hudson or Magic Johnson material there.....
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bump, he is alive. Still in Greenville.

 

Lamar is in Greenville as trainer. I was working with him before I hurt my back again. He is a great trainer. He has put on some weight since his good old days but still has a hard punch.

 

The articles I read about him back in the mid 90s and what he did, was a little disturbing and extremely despicable.

https://www.poz.com/article/Down-for-the-Count-1836-6490

 

Seems like him and McClellan would've been a match made in heaven.

 

He's done well to survive till now.
I remember reading an interview with him, he talks about how frail he felt with H iv.
This was back when Hiv was seen as a death sentence, and that interview seems like a life time ago.

 

Remember him from Tuesday Night Fights. Sad stuff, but, he did try to con his way back into fighting by switching blood tests, or something, if I remember correctly.