RIP Alexis Arguello

[BIG H]

RIP Legend

[BIG H]

RIP to an absolute legend!!!!

[holmcall]

Please, this cannot be true.

[killersheep]

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.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

there's the 3rd.

Bad news & death always in 3's.

Great fighter.

[killersheep]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJd2j4LKMU8

[killersheep]

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.

[HattonTheHammer]

there's the 3rd.

Bad news & death always in 3's.

Great fighter.

I know jacko pegged it but who was the other guy??

[Howlin Mad Missy]

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.

[CGM]

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.

[SweetPea]

I see nothing in print that it was suicide.

This thread title should be changed.

[bcollins]

Very depressing news. Arguello was a superlative champion and an old school warrior. RIP champ.

[killersheep]

I see nothing in print that it was suicide.

This thread title should be changed.

It's all outlined here

Nicaragua pierde una gloria del deporte nacional · ElNuevoDiario.com.ni

Alexis Arguello dies in Nicaragua | Fightnews - Boxing News Updated 24/7

[JazMerkin]

won 82 (KO 65) + lost 8 (KO 4)

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.

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.

[Lance Uppercut]

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.