The ugly ends

[marbleheadmaui]

Rocky Lockridge. He's still with us but man, sad sad sad for a true champ.

Remember when Top cruiser Sergey Kobozev was killed. Pissed off the Russian mafia and promising career-life was snuffed out.

Tim 'doc' Anderson. Hapless club heavy who crushed Mark Gastineu, was dupped and refused to be a pawn to crooked promoter and throw rematch. So he shot promoter who reportedly drugged him in that fight....SJC

James Hughes. All balls to the wall brawler who earned a big payday only to get murdered after party life caught up. Check his fight with Stone and Stephans, solid raw grit!

Cody Koch yng top hvy killed in a street brawl....why does that particular list run on so long

Geeze oh man! Except for poor Rocky I don't think I know ANY of these other stories! Thanks! Now I gotta go research!

[erics44]

bosing related injuries have seem some nasty conclusions

[greynotsoold]

Brennan was shot during a robbery of the bar he owned. Davis was shot during a robbery of a bar he had just sold: he was there to draw customers for the new owner and started throwing punches at the armed robbers. Stanley Ketchel had most of his fights here in Butte, where he also worked (from the age of 15) as a bouncer in the brothels. He was later put on atrain out of town as an undesirable. He took this very personally, took the name "The Michigan Assassin" and never mentioned Butte as the place where he had 41 fights.
In the Nunn/Toney fight, Toney had actually won rounds 8, 9, 10 with straight, hard right hands. The fight was originally called by Goosen, I forget his first name, and he had previously managed and trained Nunn and was trying to get him back. Watch the fight with no sound or in slow motion and it is much less one sided.

[marbleheadmaui]

Brennan was shot during a robbery of the bar he owned. Davis was shot during a robbery of a bar he had just sold: he was there to draw customers for the new owner and started throwing punches at the armed robbers. Stanley Ketchel had most of his fights here in Butte, where he also worked (from the age of 15) as a bouncer in the brothels. He was later put on atrain out of town as an undesirable. He took this very personally, took the name "The Michigan Assassin" and never mentioned Butte as the place where he had 41 fights.
In the Nunn/Toney fight, Toney had actually won rounds 8, 9, 10 with straight, hard right hands. The fight was originally called by Goosen, I forget his first name, and he had previously managed and trained Nunn and was trying to get him back. Watch the fight with no sound or in slow motion and it is much less one sided.

I'll have to do that. Bummy Davis is one of the great boxing characters.

[KananKrus]

from Wiki...

Michael Dokes -
In 1999 was sent to prison between four and fifteen years after being convicted of an attack on his fiancee in August of 1998. Late in 2008, Dokes was released on parole. He is currently fighting a battle with liver cancer.

[ElTerribleMorales]

Gerald McClellan, reduced to being taken care for by his sister and eating baby food, personal reasons keep me from feeling too bad for the guy, but well it's still a bad way out

[marbleheadmaui]

Gerald McClellan, reduced to being taken care for by his sister and eating baby food, personal reasons keep me from feeling too bad for the guy, but well it's still a bad way out

Yup. Same with El Radar.

[marbleheadmaui]

from Wiki...

Michael Dokes -
In 1999 was sent to prison between four and fifteen years after being convicted of an attack on his fiancee in August of 1998. Late in 2008, Dokes was released on parole. He is currently fighting a battle with liver cancer.

Geeze I didn't know that. I was at MSG when he got taken in one by Riddick.