RIP Alexis Arguello

[Deanrw]

I just saw the headline on another site. Rest In Peace Champ

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[JazMerkin]

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

[Spicoli]

Gutted right here.shit!!Why

[Diane]

Damn.

God, CMM is really going to be bumming on this one.

[Deanrw]

Gutted right here.shit!!Why

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.

Arguello was in Puerto Rico just a few days ago smiling and posing. Weird.

[TigerFan]

Damn that sucks

RIP Champ

[Spicoli]

Gutted right here.shit!!Why

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.

Arguello was in Puerto Rico just a few days ago smiling and posing. Weird.

His smile yeh.Always seemed so personable.

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

[Deanrw]

Arguello A Few Days Ago. Looked Happy

[JazMerkin]

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

[skel1983]

RIP

Great fighter.

[HattonTheHammer]

Arguellos dead?

OMFG

How the hell did it happen?? Feel sick


RIP

[HattonTheHammer]

WTF


Why would he do this? was he in debt? did his marriage break up??

jesus fucking christ

RIP

[JT Rock]

RIP Champ

[CGM]

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.

[LEGION]

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.