Lard Bazaar 3,687 Posted April 6, 2013 Zambian boxer Michael Norgrove dead after collapsing following a fight http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22051529 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted April 8, 2013 Perennial heavyweight contender Carl "The Truth" Williams dead of œsophagal cancer at 53. He fought pretty much every major name of his day - Tyson, Bruno, Holmes, Morrison, Witherspoon - and lost to them all. He was robbed against Holmes, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted May 7, 2013 British boxing scene publicist/writer/general all-round busybody, Andrew Millwall, has died at the age of 53. He's a unique pick for me in the DDP so I'm just gonna sit here and hope Steve Bunce mentions him in his Independent column. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted May 10, 2013 British boxing scene publicist/writer/general all-round busybody, Andrew Millwall, has died at the age of 53. He's a unique pick for me in the DDP so I'm just gonna sit here and hope Steve Bunce mentions him in his Independent column. Obituary here at 2 minutes 18 seconds in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,269 Posted July 23, 2013 http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/emile-griffith-dies-age-75-former-champion-072313 Emile Griffith - gay, black boxer who beat Cuban opponent Benny Paret to death in 1962 - has died aged 75 as a result of dementia. If anyone wants to watch the grisly footage, here it is. Skip to about 1:50. Paret really shouldn't have called him a "maricon" (Spanish slang for "Faggot") at the weigh-in/press conference..... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Reaper 183 Posted July 23, 2013 http://msn.foxsports...champion-072313 Emile Griffith - gay, black boxer who beat Cuban opponent Benny Paret to death in 1962 - has died aged 75 as a result of dementia. If anyone wants to watch the grisly footage, here it is. Skip to about 1:50. Paret really shouldn't have called him a "maricon" (Spanish slang for "Faggot") at the weigh-in/press conference..... And they say boxing is in decline these days... "Probably the tamest round of the entire fight"...just as a guy gets beaten to death Amir Khan must be relieved he wasn't born 50 years earlier Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,288 Posted July 24, 2013 British middleweight Billy Smith has committed suicide, aged 35. He fought 160 times, losing on no less than 145 occasions. Billy Smith's twin brother Ernie, also a boxer, also killed himself in 2010, after his 161st fight. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainChorizo 1,898 Posted July 25, 2013 Seems like a fight with could have gone either way Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,405 Posted August 8, 2013 soviet boxer Alexander Yagubkin has died at 52 . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Yagubkin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted August 26, 2013 Another year, another "Tommy Morrison is days away from dying from AIDS/Tommy Morrison says that AIDS doesn't exist" story. I think this is the time the germ finally finishes him off, tbh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,269 Posted August 26, 2013 Another year, another "Tommy Morrison is days away from dying from AIDS/Tommy Morrison says that AIDS doesn't exist" story. I think this is the time the germ finally finishes him off, tbh. Is this the same guy who was in Rocky V as "Tommy Gunn"? I seem to remember hearing he had HIV a while back. I did a Google but he looks so different in what seem to be the "latest" pics, that I can't believe it's him. BTW yes I'm aware HIV fucks people up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,938 Posted September 2, 2013 Another year, another "Tommy Morrison is days away from dying from AIDS/Tommy Morrison says that AIDS doesn't exist" story. I think this is the time the germ finally finishes him off, tbh. Is this the same guy who was in Rocky V as "Tommy Gunn"? I seem to remember hearing he had HIV a while back. I did a Google but he looks so different in what seem to be the "latest" pics, that I can't believe it's him. BTW yes I'm aware HIV fucks people up. Dead. http://8countnews.com/index.php/boxing/boxing-news/979-former-heavyweight-champ-tommy-morrison-has-died.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted September 2, 2013 The first of Rocky's opponents to die, unless the past 30 seconds I've spent googling is wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the_engineer 1,405 Posted September 11, 2013 Boxing manager and trainer Dean Powell has died at 47 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/10300541/British-boxing-saddened-after-Dean-Powell-dies-aged-47.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
time 7,940 Posted September 18, 2013 Former World heavyweight champ Ken Norton ko'd at 70. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted September 19, 2013 Former World heavyweight champ Ken Norton ko'd at 70. Ali's outlasting all his rivals... ...George Foreman will surely win in the end. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted September 19, 2013 By my quick fag packet calculations, 27 of Ali's opponents are still alive (28 if you count Parkinson's), with Jimmy Robinson having vanished off the face of the planet (the subject of this fascinating article). 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted September 19, 2013 So Henry Cooper (put Ali on canvas in 1963), Ken Norton (beat Ali in 1973) and Joe Frazier (beat Ali in 1971) have all passed away in the last three years. Trevor Berbick died in 2006. That leaves Leon Spinks and Larry Holmes looking over thier shoulders... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted September 19, 2013 So Henry Cooper (put Ali on canvas in 1963), Ken Norton (beat Ali in 1973) and Joe Frazier (beat Ali in 1971) have all passed away in the last three years. Trevor Berbick died in 2006. That leaves Leon Spinks and Larry Holmes looking over thier shoulders... Plus Ron Lyle (was beating Ali clearly on all three cards before the referee stopped the fight for no apparent reason) died in 2011, and Jimmy Young (utterly ridiculous decision, Ali markedly lost this one) died in 2005. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted September 19, 2013 It's almost as if being repeatedly punched in the skull is bad for your health or something. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted September 19, 2013 The irony is that those dodgy decisions which otherwise have ended Ali's career in 1976 rather than 1981 may have contributed to Ali's health problems... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Banshees Scream 107 Posted September 19, 2013 The irony is that those dodgy decisions which otherwise have ended Ali's career in 1976 rather than 1981 may have contributed to Ali's health problems... The irony is that those dodgy decisions which otherwise have ended Ali's career in 1976 rather than 1981 may have contributed to Ali's health problems... Is this the truth? Is there any proof that Ali's boxing career shouldn't have seen the 1980's? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Spade_Cooley 9,018 Posted September 19, 2013 The irony is that those dodgy decisions which otherwise have ended Ali's career in 1976 rather than 1981 may have contributed to Ali's health problems... The irony is that those dodgy decisions which otherwise have ended Ali's career in 1976 rather than 1981 may have contributed to Ali's health problems... Is this the truth? Is there any proof that Ali's boxing career shouldn't have seen the 1980's? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz3vkUvuVO4 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted September 19, 2013 The irony is that those dodgy decisions which otherwise have ended Ali's career in 1976 rather than 1981 may have contributed to Ali's health problems... The irony is that those dodgy decisions which otherwise have ended Ali's career in 1976 rather than 1981 may have contributed to Ali's health problems... Is this the truth? Is there any proof that Ali's boxing career shouldn't have seen the 1980's? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz3vkUvuVO4 Right on, bro. That is the equivalent of seeing an actress from a sitcom from the gods, like say Pauline McLynn, pitching up in a shite "oirish" tragedy of a comedy, which may have put another rusty nail in British sitcom's coffin... The British Situation Comedy: 1946-2013. Rest in Peace... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,269 Posted September 19, 2013 Right on, bro. That is the equivalent of seeing an actress from a sitcom from the gods, like say Pauline McLynn, pitching up in a shite "oirish" tragedy of a comedy, which may have put another rusty nail in British sitcom's coffin... The British Situation Comedy: 1946-2013. Rest in Peace... Eh? I must assume you are talking about "Father Figure"? Sorry, last time I actually tried paying attention to what they show on BBC1 it took 3 days before I managed to convince myself to stop flushing my own head in the toilet. Is it on the same level as The Wright Way? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
