Todd Hickman

sweetsci · Post by **sweetsci** » 14 Dec 2003, 15:09

I'm going through some of my early-mid 1980s editions of The Amateur Boxer magazine and a name I keep seeing as a can't miss prospect ("The Next Sugar Ray?") is Todd Hickman, from Akron OH. I did a search on Boxrec & it shows one pro fight in 1985, a win. Does anyone know what happened to him?

zurdo · Post by **zurdo** » 15 Dec 2003, 04:39

I can sure help out a fellow noarth coaster on this one..

Todd Hickman was killed in a drive by shooting sometime shortly after that one pro fight

I actually saw Todd Hickman fight in a US-Ireland dual meet at the Concord Pavillion in 1983 along with Mark Breland Micheal Nunn, Paul Banke ..He stopped his man in the first round

I saw him hanging around afterwards and I remember he had the most gigantic ghetto blaster I have ever seen.... He had beaten Pernell Whitaker and was tapped as a top prospect for the Olympics..

But for some he never made it and his story ended tragically

sweetsci · Post by **sweetsci** » 15 Dec 2003, 14:58

Thanks a lot, Zurdo!

Did we chat via email several months back, or am I thinking of someone else? Anyway, thanks again. I wasn't sure I'd get an answer on this one at all, much less by someone from my hometown!

Too bad about Todd. He was sure written up as something special.

zurdo · Post by **zurdo** » 17 Dec 2003, 05:09

Yep that was me!

When I saw Todd Hicckman was kind of a lanky Tommy Hearns type fighter He stopped his man with one left hook..

When all the fighters came out to sign autographs I got to meet the one and only Al "Chico" Evans he was the heavyweight on the team who also won by a knockout that evening ACE is also mildly famous for being the only man to stop Mike Tyson in the amatuers