Valero found hanged in his cell

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Alcohol - the route of all evil

[El Kabong]

Alcohol - the route of all evil

....no it's the cause of and solution to all of life's troubles.


This is a really tragic day for boxing....and it's not like Edwin wasn't offered help either. This was TOTALLY avoidable!!! I bet you money either Edwin had brain damage from his accident (forms of which can make your emotions hard to control) which would have been exacerbated by boxing or the guy was bi-polar or schizo and was "self medicating" with alcohol and perhaps other drugs.

[Fenster]

It has nothing to do with boxing.

Valero was clearly a sick fuck. People that know him said he was a control freak. His wife wasn't allowed to leave the home. Seems like his family was terrified of him. There were recent reports of him beating his mum and sister as well as his wife.

[El Kabong]

It has nothing to do with boxing.

Valero was clearly a sick fuck. People that know him said he was a control freak. His wife wasn't allowed to leave the home. Seems like his family was terrified of him. There were recent reports of him beating his mum and sister as well as his wife.

....he's identified in the news as "a champion boxer" so ergo it's bad for boxing.

[amat]

It's sad all the way around and for me the boxing fan it's made a bit sadder because he was special in the ring. I wasn't so sure of that previously but after his last bout I was convinced. It has everything to do with boxing btw, he was a boxer and boxing provided an opportunity for him to live a good life had he chosen to. Plus, he was super talented and coming off his career best performance where he showed improvement and proved he was more then just the KO. That's what he should have been remembered for.

I'm not going to speculate on what caused his downfall, I don't know him. He definitely was a wild man though. I feel bad for his family and this is just a terrible page in the book of boxing tragedies. I'll try my best not to judge him for what he did, terrible as it may be. RIP.

[Fenster]

It has nothing to do with boxing.

Valero was clearly a sick fuck. People that know him said he was a control freak. His wife wasn't allowed to leave the home. Seems like his family was terrified of him. There were recent reports of him beating his mum and sister as well as his wife.

....he's identified in the news as "a champion boxer" so ergo it's bad for boxing.

He's just a boxer that committed murder.

Nobody outside the hardcore knew of him. Nobody with an ounce of a brain cell will relate a man stabbing his wife then killing himself with boxing.

[JazMerkin]

The biggest tragedy is that in the space of two days, his children's world has fallen apart. They've lost both their parents. Valero obviously had major problems, what he did was disgusting, but to think he just did it for the sake of it is naive. Many are claiming that he had been mentally unwell for quite some time and nobody, not his manager or even Hugo Chavez were able to help him.

It's a tragedy that a beautiful young woman and mother has been lost, and whatever way you look at suicide, I think Valero decided on his own sentence. The parallels with Monzon are chilling. The one thing I would point out is that this kind of case happens all the time all over the world. The police were unable to arrest Valero because his wife said she fell down the stairs. This was no more preventable in Venezuela than it would have been in Venice Beach.

RIP to Jennifer Viera & all the other women who die in similar circumstances.

[amat]

Actually the Cuban exile program was government ordered and he was supposed to have a police escort at all times in order to prevent him from harming his wife again. He "evaded" them on the night of the murder. All these were stipulations to him staying out of jail, which is what the prosecutor asked the judge for. So in all actuality this should have been prevented, people around him, even the judge, had known that this result was entirely possible.

[Nameless]

It has nothing to do with boxing.

Valero was clearly a sick fuck. People that know him said he was a control freak. His wife wasn't allowed to leave the home. Seems like his family was terrified of him. There were recent reports of him beating his mum and sister as well as his wife.

His mother and sister as well Like if what he did to his wife wasn't already serious enough. I didn't know neither he had two kids... a very very sad day and the guy was seriously disturbed.

[PRIDE OF BOSTON]

It has nothing to do with boxing.

Valero was clearly a sick fuck. People that know him said he was a control freak. His wife wasn't allowed to leave the home. Seems like his family was terrified of him. There were recent reports of him beating his mum and sister as well as his wife.

His mother and sister as well Like if what he did to his wife wasn't already serious enough. I didn't know neither he had two kids... a very very sad day and the guy was seriously disturbed.

Was there no male over 145lbs in that family to put the hobbit in his place?... anyway. whatever. It's kind of a moot point. Sad for the whole of the family... Both sides.