Boxers in accidents

[dagosd2000]

!980 over Warsaw,Poland 14 boxers and 8 trainers and officials of the U.S. National Boxing Team perished in a plane crash along with everyone else on board.

[bwu]

A very close friend of my wife rear ended Larry Holmes' vehicle in Virginia once. Odd, as we all live in Pennsylvania and so does Holmes.

She said he was a complete gentleman about the incident. I told her she was lucky it wasn't Mike Tyson. This was after Holmes was retired but before Iron Mike mellowed.

[Bodyshot3]

Big Gary Mason was killed riding his bike in London on his commute
Harry Greb also killed by an incompetent surgeon.

[Boxerbeetle]

Amir Khan’s had a few nasty car wrecks and severely injured a pedestrian in one of them.

[DrDuke]

Harry Greb also killed by an incompetent surgeon.

Did he die because of some iatrogenic factors? Was it accidental? I haven't seen any detail about his death.

The information is even different. Some sources tell, he died during the operation on eye. The other ones tell, the operation was on nose. Another ones tell, he died after an operation, not in a process of it.

[AntonioMartin]

Paul Williams paralysed in motorcycle accident, the USA amateur team died in a plane crash, not sure what year (80s?), 2 welsh pro boxers died on the Titanic (Jimmy Wilde was supposed to be on it but fell ill), Gary Mason hit by a car whilst cycling.

Yeah I forgot him! I still pray he walks again someday!

[Caractacus]

In 1957 when he was still the Featherweight Champion, Sandy Saddler was involved in a Taxi accident that injured his eye
( the Taxi was side-swiped by another car)he spent three weeks in the hospital and he was forced to retire.
Jack Johnson was involved in several vehicle accidents,
and was nearly killed.(the last one did kill him in 1946 near Franklinton NC )
Earnie Shavers when he was still in HS use to drag race and was nearly killed
(racing his Chevelle) and never raced again after that.

[Caractacus]

LH contender Pierre Fourie
( who fought Victor Galindez twice died in a road accident)

Rodney Bobick was killed by being hit by a car when he was doing his roadwork.

[f read]

Bobby Czyz was involved in a car accident and had millions of dollars in medical expense. Yes Craig Bodzianowski motorcycle accident and lost part of his leg as result.

[oogiebe]

Anyone mention Vinny Paz yet?

[Caractacus]

Archie Moore was involved in a road accident near Bartlesville Oklahoma in 1938 they could have either killed him or ruined his boxing career.
He and a friend/manager (Felix Thurmond)were driving to San Diego from St. Louis and on a rainy day turning a bend another car forced them off the road into an irragation ditch and theie car turned over onto its top.
Archie Moore thought he smelled gas and punched out a window with his right hand and nearly severing an artery.
just by chance another car which had 2 Medical interns and 2 nurses in it arrived at the scene shortly.
He later said if theyhad not applied a turniqutt
then and there that he was just 14 minutes away from bleeding to death.
also at the hospital an X-ray showd he was 1/8 th of an inch from severing a tendon in his right wrist which
would have prevented him from continuing his boxing career.

[bollocks]

Kenny Norton.... he once said he accidentally "slipped" against Foreman. I suspect he may have been joking

[bollocks]

Dave Sands...middleweight contender in Ray Robinson's era. Died in a truck crash in 1952

[AntonioMartin]

Anyone mention Vinny Paz yet?

Yep, I did...

[AntonioMartin]

Kenny Norton.... he once said he accidentally "slipped" against Foreman. I suspect he may have been joking

He did indeed have an actual car crash too..

[AntonioMartin]

I just remembered Chic Calderwood died in a car crash two weeks after losing to Jose Torres for the world title....

And Clemente Sanchez supposedly survived a car crash but was then killed by the other driver in a case of road rage.

On the flip side of that coin (Clemente Sanchez) was Esteban De Jesus, who had a car crash, and in a cocaine-induced case of road rage, murdered the 17 year old driver of the other car.

[evrenb]

Kenny Norton.... he once said he accidentally "slipped" against Foreman. I suspect he may have been joking

That was Ali's old line ....Damn I miss those days. It's not like now where every sentence is a threat of killing your opponent or just moronic foul mouthed, inane hyperbole. No class whatsoever. I know perhaps Ali started all the hype job talk but surely it was different to now? Some of the headlines I read on some YouTube channels to entice a click are just appalling. These are public forums. Anyway , rant over

[bollocks]

Very true, it's mirroring what's generally happening in society

[detamour]

Kenny Norton.... he once said he accidentally "slipped" against Foreman. I suspect he may have been joking

He did indeed have an actual car crash too..

That went of the cliff in California, retribution for doing Susan George?

[AntonioMartin]

Kenny Norton.... he once said he accidentally "slipped" against Foreman. I suspect he may have been joking

He did indeed have an actual car crash too..

That went of the cliff in California, retribution for doing Susan George?

Whl knows..maybe..was she married?

[goose 5]

Frankie Ryff fell down an elevator shaft and survived.

[jont]

Norbert Ekassi... cut himself on glass trying to get in his locked house... details are sketchy but he bled to death.. RIP Champ...

[Caractacus]

Hard Livin' LIGHTweight Champion Lew Jenkins was in a serious motorcycle accident when he was still champion.
check out this article from 2006 on him
https://boxing247.com/weblog/archives/106923
and then watch this.

[Onetimeonly]

Lightweight

[Mikey K]

Masao Ohba. (October 21, 1949 – January 25, 1973)

WBA World Flyweight Champion.

Ohba was born on October 21, 1949. Ohba's father was a factory worker and a compulsive gambler, causing him to know poverty from an early age. His father followed professional boxing as an avid fan which influenced Ohba's childhood aspirations and dreams. By the time Ohba was in elementary school, he dreamt of becoming a world champion, and bringing himself and his family out of poverty.

After completing middle school, he took a job in a candy shop to help support his family and trained as a boxer in the evening. He joined the Teiken Boxing Gym in 1965.

Ohba made his professional debut in November 7, 1966, at the age of 17 against Kazuyoshi Watanabe in Tokyo.

On the morning of January 24, 1973, only three weeks after his last defense, Ohba died in a car accident. He was returning to the Teiken Gym where he both trained and lived. Ohba was driving his new 1973 ivory Chevrolet Corvette (C3) down an expressway in Tokyo, when he hit a heavy duty eleven ton parked truck on the shoulder of the opposite lane. His Corvette had jumped the road divider when he was unable to negotiate a turn and he was unable to regain control. He was driving around sixty, in a thirty-six mile per hour zone and was an inexperienced driver, having only obtained his driver's license three months before the crash. He was only 23 years old, and still in possession of the WBA title. As a dutiful son, he had just bought his parents a new home. On February 5, 1973, a funeral service was held by the World Boxing Association at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, where he had once boxed. A separate service had been held at his home in Kasuwbe, twenty miles north of Tokyo.

Ohba was dubbed "The Eternal Champion," because he was undefeated in world title bouts and died while still reigning champion. He had been planning on relinquishing his flyweight title to challenge for the bantamweight title before his death.