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Quote Originally Posted by jamiebhoy View Post
Just read through the lists quickly so it might have been mentioned.

Johnny Owen, Welsh Bantamweight died in 1980 after his fight with Lupe Pintor when he was KO'd in the 12th. he was in a coma for 7 weeks. he was known as the 'Merthyr Matchstick’

Found this link which has a kind of nice ending to the story in terms of Pintor being forgiven.

Johnny Owen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Did i read this right, the crowd urinated on him? WTF? Sad story all round.
Must've been a typo, cause the entry doesn't make sense. Seemed out of place in the gist of the paragraph. Wikpediai is infamous for these hiccups, as we all know for sure.