This world has some really stupid people does'nt it!:-\
I hope that the people who did this get found and rot in hell!
RIP*
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This world has some really stupid people does'nt it!:-\
I hope that the people who did this get found and rot in hell!
RIP*
Rip... Forget about his career, this man had an entire life and family to look forward to.. Tragic:-\
Yo some of you guys know.. But some of you dont but this guy was on the up and up.. like alot of young guys in NY these days..
He was really loved and respected by the guys around him..
Last i saw Big Venezuela fight was on a broadway boxing show on the Kid stark/Santana undercard.. The guy had real class and was going places.. and its fitting that now he has passed, but in passing he is undefeated in 8fights..
And a dude with a gun proves nothing.. Ronnie was pistol whipped and drove on allegedly crashing into about 3 cars and attempting to get out.. Petty killing and they couldnt touch this dude without a weapon.. Undefeated Forever.
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unior middleweight was off to an 8-0 start
Tragedy struck the boxing world as undefeated prospect Ronnie Vargas was gunned down in The Bronx, New York on Saturday. Vargas was a 8-0 as a pro and his amateur resume included three championships in New York's Golden Gloves tournament. Vargas, transplanted from Venezuela to The Bronx, was raised by a single father, German. He turned pro with Pat Lynch as his manager, the man best known for guiding Arturo Gatti's career. The murder occurred shortly after Vargas was seen talking to a girl, which made the girl's boyfriend jealous. The thug then followed Vargas in a car, cut the car off and shot Vargas in the chest. Boxingtalk sends its condolences for this senseless tragedy to German Vargas and everyone else grieving over this loss.
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To Ronnie:
This is your boy Gato!!! I'm gonna miss you dearly you were and still are a great fighter you was reppin the Bronx with honor and greatness. I wanna thank you for giving your friends/fans great everlasting memories. May you rest in peace.
To the family and friends remember lets continue his memory & his legacy .....
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
- Francisco " El Gato" Figueroa.
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Ronny Vargas was gunned down in his car following a dispute, and a surveillance camera caught the final moments of his life.
He was pistol-whipped and shot before he crashed into several vehicles in an effort to escape.
The video shows the end of the deadly confrontation, which began early Saturday at a bodega in the East Tremont section with some friends. Investigators say two men became angry when they saw their girlfriends talking with Vargas, who was sitting in his car outside.
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After arguing, the 20-year-old Vargas drove away with his friends. But the suspects followed his car and cut him off. Then, one of the men pulled a gun and pistol-whipped Vargas before shooting him in the chest.
The video shows Vargas' car as he backed up, striking several other cars before getting out of the car and collapsing.
"There's an empty space in my heart right now, because I don't have him anymore," Vargas' brother, Ronald Vargas, said.
Vargas leaves behind not only a loving family, but also a promising boxing career. Vargas won the Golden Gloves junior middleweight title three times before turning professional in September. He went on to win all eight of his pro fights.
The memorial outside his apartment in Melrose shows the void that will be left in the neighborhood, where he was well-known and well liked.
Vargas last boxing match was two weeks ago, when he knocked out his opponent in the third round. He was set to fight October 18 in Atlantic City.
R.i.p
Just another nice article on Big Venezuela.. Thanks for reading.
NEW YORK -- Ronney Vargas was like most young adults. He was constantly on his cell phone text messaging friends. He was out and about, as if there were 34 hours in a day instead of 24.
"He was a laid-back kid, a little lazy, the usual teenage stuff," said Teddy Cruz, who used to be Vargas's strength and conditioning coach. "But when he got in the ring, he turned on the switch, and it was all business."
Vargas was one of Cruz's prized pupils, a 20-year-old junior middleweight who was in the second year of his pro career after winning three Golden Gloves championships. Already 8-0 with six knockouts, Vargas was being brought along the way a young prospect is developed when there's a chance he can be something special. He had a well-regarded manager in Pat Lynch, who had guided the career of Arturo Gatti, and he had Cruz strengthening his 6-foot-2 body and hardening his punching power. "I truly believe the kid had all the talent in the world to be a world champion," Lynch said. "He could box; he could brawl. He had power in both hands. He had Tommy Hearns-type shoulders. He was the complete package." Lynch and Cruz are in mourning, along with Vargas' family and the New York boxing community, after Vargas was shot to death early Saturday morning after an altercation outside a bodega in the Bronx. Police say Vargas and five friends got into an argument with two couples when the men became angry after seeing Vargas chatting with their female companions. Vargas was pistol-whipped, then shot in his car and later pronounced dead at St. Barnabas Hospital. "It's just a disaster," Cruz said. "It's senseless," Lynch said. "Just terrible."
Cruz got the news about 5:30 a.m., roughly two hours after the shooting took place. Less than 24 hours earlier, he had made the drive from his home in North Plainfield, N.J., to Mamaroneck, N.Y., where he met Vargas and went through a two-hour workout regime they did three or four times a week. Vargas was scheduled to fight on the undercard of the Oct. 18 main event between Kelly Pavlik and Bernard Hopkins in Atlantic City. "It was just a normal day," Cruz said. "After we were done, I told him to have a good weekend and to take care. That's the last time I saw him."
From all reports, Vargas was a good kid out of the ring. Born in Venezuela and raised in the South Bronx, he lived with his father and two brothers. It was at the Police Athletic League on Webster Avenue in the Bronx where he first honed his boxing skills. He decided to drop out of high school to pursue the sport full-time, winning Golden Gloves titles in 2005, 2006 and 2007. "I saw a lot of overall ability," said Brian Adams, the director of New York's prestigious Golden Gloves. "He was a guy who was progressing with each tournament. He was well-rounded. He could fight and he could box. I wanted him to get with someone who could do things with him and not rush him." Enter Lynch, who considered retiring from boxing after managing Gatti's career. Lynch brought in Cruz. Maybe, he thought, Vargas could be another Gatti: tough, determined, a warrior. "He loved the sport and was always in the gym," Lynch said of Vargas. "We had everything in the right place. He was fighting on big-time shows. It was all there." Cruz said he used to pick up Vargas to take him to his workouts, but two months ago the boxer bought a car, the same car he would lose his life in. Frankie "El Gato" Figueroa, another pro boxer from the Bronx, says there are lessons to be learned in the tragedy. "One, he had a lot of potential and was doing well in the ring and had a lot of good friends. Second, you don't hang out until 3 in the morning no matter how grown you think you are. The later it gets at night, the risk for potential trouble goes up." Adams said, "At 3 in the morning, nothing positive is going on out there."
George Willis is the boxing columnist for the New York Post.
Again, very sorry to hear this, and yet another senseless tragedy. R.I.P.:eek:
rip
Thanks for this article Tito I'll rep you when it lets me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Tito BHB
Shocking another one R.I.P:confused:
American thugs eh..Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
No why the hell would you bump this?
LOL I bet at least one person won't notice when the thread was originally started, and assume Fernando has died...
It has almost been me, I've seen the thread and I was like "whattt" then I opened it and saw it was Ronnie Vargas, I was not far from the Guillotine I tell ya.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dizaster
Why are so many boxers dieing :( RIP.
Yeah it's a shame about Fernando in this case isn't it... First Ronnie a few years back, and now this..Quote:
Originally Posted by mattboxingfan
RIP
:)