I just saw the headline on another site. Rest In Peace Champ :eek:
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I just saw the headline on another site. Rest In Peace Champ :eek:
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Has this been confirmed? He was one of my favourite fighters? I'm gonna hold out for something on Reuters hoping this aint true :(
EDIT: It is true the AP have got it, nothing about suicide though
The Associated Press: Managua mayor, ex-boxing champ, found dead
Gutted right here.shit!!Why
Damn. :eek:
God, CMM is really going to be bumming on this one.
It's terrible. I was hoping it was a fake news story. The more I searched though, the more it was showing up. It is now in the mainstream news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Arguello was in Puerto Rico just a few days ago smiling and posing. Weird.
Damn that sucks :eek:
RIP Champ
His smile yeh.Always seemed so personable.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeanrwIt's terrible. I was hoping it was a fake news story. The more I searched though, the more it was showing up. It is now in the mainstream news.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spicoli
Arguello was in Puerto Rico just a few days ago smiling and posing. Weird.
At first I hit google and Arguello-suicide and up popped this old article.Its dated 85'.Very erie.Man its a sad day.Like I had said in the Jackson thread....when a known fighter falls, its a kin ship.Hits close.RIP to a great champion and man.
Alexis Arguello once considered suicide as an escape from - 10.21.85 - SI Vault
http://www.primerahora.com/XStatic/p...arguello-t.jpg
Arguello A Few Days Ago. Looked Happy
DeanRW has posted this in another thread, but I thought we should have somewhere to pay our respects to a true ATG of the sport and arguably the best fighter to ever weigh in at 130lbs.
A 3 weight World Champ at Featherweight, Super-Featherweight & Lightweight, Arguello began his pro career at just 14 losing his first fight, but would develope into a truly awesome boxer-puncher. Despite losing his first tilt at a Featherweight title against Marcel, he would finally get the belt in an excellent fight with Ruben Olivares KOing the Champ brutally with a left hook. His gruelling fight with Alfredo Escalera for the Super-Featherweight belt was even better, a fantastic back & forth punch-up. An incredibly tough man he went through surgery on his nose without anasthethic following the Escalera rematch which he also won & would have excellent close fights with Bobby Chacon & Ruben Castillo before moving up & beating the likes of Cornelius Boza-Edwards at 135. He would take the LW belt in London following a dominating victory over Jim Watt, which he followed up with a big victory over Boom Boom Mancini. At this point many felt he was the Pound for Pound #1 boxer in the world & he no doubt could have added another divisional belt at 140 to his resume had he not had the misfortune to face Aaron Pryor.
Although like many, money troubles would force him out of retirement, his legacy was secure. He was to Nicaragua, immensley troubled at the time, what Roberto Duran was to Panama or what Manny Pacquiao is to the Phillipines. An undisputed Hall of Famer & although I wasn't alive when he fought, he remains one of my favourite fighters to watch. Just last year he solidified his status as the man of the people by winning the Mayorship of the capital & his home city, Managua. Seven words spoken by the Presidential spokesman today summed up why he was so loved by the people of Nicaragua and why he will forever be their hero. "He was the Champion of the poor".
RIP Champ
RIP
Great fighter.
Arguellos dead?
OMFG :o:o:o
How the hell did it happen?? Feel sick
RIP
WTF
Why would he do this? was he in debt? did his marriage break up??
jesus fucking christ
RIP
RIP Champ :eek:
:o
Oh man, this is bad news, as boxers and men go, he was right up at the top of my list. This one hurts like few others would.
R.I.P.
F#ck!! That ruined my day; what a shame. Sometimes this life we wake up to every day gets more and more depressing. R.I.P. man.
RIP Legend :(
RIP to an absolute legend!!!!
Please, this cannot be true.
Seems so surreal. One of the greats, there will never be another like him.
My condolences go out to his family, friends and loved ones.
R.I.P.
:-\
there's the 3rd.
Bad news & death always in 3's.
Great fighter.
We already had 3 though, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon and Farah Fawcett.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
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Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
I know jacko pegged it but who was the other guy??
won 82 (KO 65) + lost 8 (KO 4)
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — Managua Mayor Alexis Arguello, a three-time world boxing champion, was found dead at his home Wednesday, his Sandinista Party's Radio Ya said.
Radio Ya said coroners were conducting an autopsy on the 57-year-old mayor to determine the cause of death, but it appeared to be a suicide. The La Prensa newspaper reported he was found with a gunshot wound to the chest.
The Hall of Fame boxer was the top fighter of the 20th century in his weight class, according to a panel of experts assembled by The Associated Press in 1999.
The death of Arguello prompted President Daniel Ortega to announced he was canceling a trip to Panama for the inauguration of President-elect Ricardo Martinelli.
Arguello fought against the Sandinista government in the 1980s after it seized his property and bank account, according to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
But he joined the party to win the mayorship of the capital in 2008, though opponents alleged the vote was fraudulent.
"We are upset," said presidential spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo, who declined to give details about the death. "This is a heartbreaking announcement. He was the champion of the poor, an example of forgiveness and reconciliation."
Born in 1952, the Hall of Fame boxer fought 14 world champions and in 1981 he became the sixth man in boxing history to win a title in three weight divisions — featherweight, super featherweight and lightweight — according to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Arguello returned Sunday from Puerto Rico where he honored the late baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente.
He was on many people's list of ATG's. Sorry to see someone loved round the world bow out by their own hand. Damn shame.
Who knows what went on between Arguello and his maker this day? I suppose from what I have read, he seemed to feel things very deeply. What a way for someone like that to go. He was widely respected, and he gave us all a lot. It's very sad. :eek:
I see nothing in print that it was suicide.
This thread title should be changed.
Very depressing news. Arguello was a superlative champion and an old school warrior. RIP champ.
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It's all outlined hereQuote:
Originally Posted by SweetPea
Nicaragua pierde una gloria del deporte nacional · ElNuevoDiario.com.ni
Alexis Arguello dies in Nicaragua | Fightnews - Boxing News Updated 24/7
It is such a shame, and he was such a decent man with no equivocations. I remember Mick posting an article up though showing that he suffered deeply from depression, he'd had a horrible life from watching his father kill himself when he was young & it says a lot about the man he was that he was so giving to others, a little too much so whilst he was a boxer. For most Nicaraguans he was THEIR icon, the man who'd fought out of poverty, in contrast to the baseball players who largely come from more middle-class backgrounds. The working-class hero stuff gets overplayed here & in the US, but in places like Nicaragua it really does matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
THe report on fight news says a "self inflicted" gun shot wound. Thus he killed him self. Whether it was accidental, we have yet to find out.
He seemed like such a great guy. And happy too..? Very sad indeed.
My His Legacy Live On.
Didn't see that one sheepy. Actually had to check because I thought it might be the WWF guy;D:-\Quote:
Originally Posted by killersheepWe already had 3 though, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon and Farah Fawcett.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
Shit that means another two:-\ Can I request it be Tom Cruise and Tony Blair?
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Originally Posted by Howlin Mad MissyDidn't see that one sheepy. Actually had to check because I thought it might be the WWF guy;D:-\Quote:
Originally Posted by killersheepWe already had 3 though, Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon and Farah Fawcett.Quote:
Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy
Shit that means another two:-\ Can I request it be Tom Cruise and Tony Blair?
Billy Mays died; does that count?:p
I would have preferred the Sham-Wow guy was fertilizing the earth;D
Billy Mays
Ed Mcmahon
Mike Jackson
Add them all together and they are 1/10 of the man Alexis was.
Wow.
Alexis was a great fighter. I always liked to watch his fight's on the old VHS tapes that my father taped but I can't really show much repsect to a man who killed himself.
RIP Mr. Arguello.
You dont have to say that booze, theyre all good men in their respected families eyes.Quote:
Originally Posted by boozeboxer
R.i.p to them all.
That kind of comment means I can't show any respect to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Fightfan
Today screw work....taking off early to blast some Arguello classics :).