Alexis Arguello commits suicide

[enrique]

Nicaraguan radio and press are reporting that Alexis Arguello shot himself through the heart this morning, killing himself.

Arguello, the sandinista mayor of Managua, had been critiziced for failing to provide records for his expense accounts over the last few months and opponets have pointed out he was a stooge of Daniel Ortega.

[Flump]

This is shocking news if true.

Goes without saying, legendary fighter, R.I.P.

[enrique]

http://www.prensaescrita.com/diarios.ph ... rio.com.ni

http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/intern ... rensa.html

[allworld80]

Horrible news.

R.I.P. champ

[Ezzard]

That is absolutely shocking!

[Goodnight, Irene]

No way!

Really? :(

[enrique]

Arguello as mayor of Managua had experienced difficulties.

The anti-sandinista opposition had accussed him over the last few months of not turning in receipts for expenses for his office -amounting to almost $200,000- of favoring Sandinista supporters in contracting jobs for municipal construction, of not being clear on the purchase of some buses for the city and keeping his own salary a secret, not making it public, leading newspapers to speculate that instead of $ 3,000 dollars a month, Arguello might have been pocketing $10,000 a month. He was recently questioned by investigators of the government's anti-corruption unit.

Those of you who read Spanish can google this information from the Nicaraguan newspapers

[JC]

RIP

A genuine legend and real gentleman

[BoxBuzz]

He was a man of honor in boxing. My guess is that politics tested him as it would anyone. He probably attempted to act honorably within a politicial system that will grind the honor out of most anyone. Even a man of profound honor can be worn down and swept away by such tides

R.I.P. champ.

[fszuzina1]

R.I.P...A courages fighter, never backed down.So sad to see you go, when you didn't have to.

[Collins2000]

One of the best fighters I ever had the priviledge of watching.

RIP

[harrygreb]

cant believe it...beyond that words fail me.

RIP CHAMP - ONE OF THE VERY BEST

[Robinson]

That is sad. It is always tragic when some one feels the need
to take their own life.

[Ambling Alp]

This really a shame. Great fighter and a class act.

[I Feel Fine]

I had been watching a lot of fights lately from that Arguello era. Arguello was by the far best of them. It is a shame that most people only seem to remember him for his losses to Pryor when he was older and fighting above his best weights. Seemed like a good guy too.
RIP

[p4p1]

RIP one of the best the sport has ever seen

[enrique]

Arguello had been against the Sandinistas, backing the contras and a few years ago switched sides, being acussed by many Nicaraguans of selling out to those who had taken much of his property years before.

The Sandinistas sponsored him as mayor of Managua but in the last few weeks the Nicaraguan press had been accusing Arguello of being a stooge of Daniel Ortega, of granting construction contracts only to Sandinistas, of not turning in $180.000 in receipts for expenses paid, in the possible kickback of purchasing buses and using government money for private trips.

The speculation right now is that Arguello who had become part of the corrupt Sandinista structure, was going to be used as an "escape goat" so Daniel Ortega and cohorts could save their own image. This was probably the key factor in the suicide -or murder- of Alexis Arguello.

A letter has surfaced in the Nicaraguan press where Alexis admits to suicide and accusess the Sandinistas of using him and betraying him. Whether true or not -the Sandinistas are deniying its validity- it creates more speculation and questions about his death.

The letter -for those who read Spanish- can be read here:

http://www.trinchera.com.ni/nacional_4.html

[alexpaterson]

RIP I knew he was suffering from depression but I thought since he became the mayor he had sorted all that out real shame a great fighter and a top class man RIP Arguello

[elmersalsa]

This year is a weiiiiirrrrdddd year:

In less than a month, we lost:
Ed McMahon
David Carradine
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays
Alexis Arguello
And now, former NFL super star QB Steve McNair.

[dajuggernaut]

This year is a weiiiiirrrrdddd year:

In less than a month, we lost:
Ed McMahon
David Carradine
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays
Alexis Arguello
And now, former NFL super star QB Steve McNair.

Add Gatti to the list.

[Goodnight, Irene]

^^^Just unreal, & one all fight fans will be sore about. If there was one man ever to pull on the gloves you thought just might have been unkillable, it was that tough ole son o' a b!tch.

[Martin Sosa Cameron]

This year is a weiiiiirrrrdddd year:

In less than a month, we lost:
Ed McMahon
David Carradine
Farrah Fawcett
Michael Jackson
Billy Mays
Alexis Arguello
And now, former NFL super star QB Steve McNair.

Add Gatti to the list.

Please, add, too, Cesar Brion

[Martin Sosa Cameron]

Arguello had been against the Sandinistas, backing the contras and a few years ago switched sides, being acussed by many Nicaraguans of selling out to those who had taken much of his property years before.

The Sandinistas sponsored him as mayor of Managua but in the last few weeks the Nicaraguan press had been accusing Arguello of being a stooge of Daniel Ortega, of granting construction contracts only to Sandinistas, of not turning in $180.000 in receipts for expenses paid, in the possible kickback of purchasing buses and using government money for private trips.

The speculation right now is that Arguello who had become part of the corrupt Sandinista structure, was going to be used as an "escape goat" so Daniel Ortega and cohorts could save their own image. This was probably the key factor in the suicide -or murder- of Alexis Arguello.

A letter has surfaced in the Nicaraguan press where Alexis admits to suicide and accusess the Sandinistas of using him and betraying him. Whether true or not -the Sandinistas are deniying its validity- it creates more speculation and questions about his death.

The letter -for those who read Spanish- can be read here:

http://www.trinchera.com.ni/nacional_4.html

It's right

Argüello was a greatest fighter, and another of the thousand of victims of the Ortega brothers and his "Sandinism" (Sandino never was communist as the dictator Ortega); Daniel Ortega and his clan are despicable like the Somoza clan: all against the democracy and liberty

[NazNaci1]

A man of respect and dignity and one hell of a fighter.

Thats the way to remember.

[granberry]

Arguello had been against the Sandinistas, backing the contras and a few years ago switched sides, being acussed by many Nicaraguans of selling out to those who had taken much of his property years before.

The Sandinistas sponsored him as mayor of Managua but in the last few weeks the Nicaraguan press had been accusing Arguello of being a stooge of Daniel Ortega, of granting construction contracts only to Sandinistas, of not turning in $180.000 in receipts for expenses paid, in the possible kickback of purchasing buses and using government money for private trips.

The speculation right now is that Arguello who had become part of the corrupt Sandinista structure, was going to be used as an "escape goat" so Daniel Ortega and cohorts could save their own image. This was probably the key factor in the suicide -or murder- of Alexis Arguello.

A letter has surfaced in the Nicaraguan press where Alexis admits to suicide and accusess the Sandinistas of using him and betraying him. Whether true or not -the Sandinistas are deniying its validity- it creates more speculation and questions about his death.

The letter -for those who read Spanish- can be read here:

http://www.trinchera.com.ni/nacional_4.html

It's right

Argüello was a greatest fighter, and another of the thousand of victims of the Ortega brothers and his "Sandinism" (Sandino never was communist as the dictator Ortega); Daniel Ortega and his clan are despicable like the Somoza clan: all against the democracy and liberty

The story put out stinks.

I wouldn't believe it for a second.

He didn't kill himself.

He was foolish enough to get mixed up with scum and put himself too close to them.

The story put out for public consumption stinks,

just like the story put out when Tyrone Everett was killed in Philly.