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does anyone know if ike ibeabuchi will ever be fighting again.

red dragon

Probably not. He's a proper loon by all accounts (not that that would stop him from getting a lisence somewhere ) but he also looked over 20 stones the last time I saw him.

Apparently, some of the drugs they give to psychiatric patients can make you pile on the ponds, so maybe he'll drop the weight if/when he gets released.

mickeybeard wrote:He's a proper loon

And the boxrec award for best shrink goes to.............

I'm sorry. I got all technical there. To put it into terms the layman can understand:

He's chuffing mental.

mickeybeard wrote:I'm sorry. I got all technical there. To put it into terms the layman can understand:

He's chuffing mental.

Forget about Ike, he aint coming back. The man is a nutcase. His crimes where pretty bad, he's not getting released.

cheers guys

red dragon

Can you imagine him and Tyson getting it on? Jesus!

I think Ike could be the best heavyweight right now, had he not blown his career. Saw some of his fight with Tua today, man what a fight.

Ike could take one hell of a punch, and deliver one as well. On top of that, his hands were pretty quick for a heavyweight, and he had decent skills as well.

But he's finished in terms of boxing. I dont think he'll be getting out too soon, and he's really let himself go....well out of shape. Huge waste of talent.

red dragon wrote:does anyone know if ike ibeabuchi will ever be fighting again.

red dragon

Only in the showers.

I have only seen 1 of Ike's fights and that was his brutal KO of Byrd, he seemed pretty decent but was a bit to easy to hit for my liking. I saw a photo of him attending some court hearing a few months ago and he mustve been 20st +++ and he looked like he was on another planet.

If he does get released it will probably be on condition he keeps taking his medication so the chances of a comeback are very slim as it is true that a lot of psychiatric medication cause major weight gain and even heavy training wont prevent this.

Anyway isnt 1 nutter on the comeback trail in the heavyweight scene enough :)

Ike will definately be fighting again, probably within 12 months.

FlawedGenius wrote:Ike will definately be fighting again, probably within 12 months.

If that's true Jimmy he'll probably end up world champ by 2006. Can't see anything stopping him, the guy's a monster. Just watch his fights with Tua and Byrd and you know he's gonna deal with Vitali and co.
It's been said for a few years now that the next great heavyweight will probably come out of Africa - not sure it'll be Ike though, he seems to be seriously unbalanced and I'm not sure he'll stay outside for too long.

As a world champ, he'd make Sonny Liston seem like Cliff Richard in comparison.

This guy drove at 80mph into a concrete flyover in an attempt to kill both himself and his 10-year-old son!
He shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring.

If they can get Riddick Bowe back in the ring then I suppose anything is possible.

I wouldn't be too confident about Ibeabuchi becoming world champ though. His outstanding quality was his workrate and I can't see that ever being what it was. Ever since Chris Byrd virtually asked to be KO'd in their meeting Ike seems to have had the reputation of a huge puncher, which I never believed him to be. More like a bigger version of Holyfield.

bennie wrote:This guy drove at 80mph into a concrete flyover in an attempt to kill both himself and his 10-year-old son!
He shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring.

Wasn't it his nephew in the car with him?

Anyway Ike is so unstable if he does make a comeback how long before he goes crazy again and ends up back in prison?

The Strange Case of Ike Ibeabuchi
By Paul Barker

It was the American Dream, gone horribly, horribly wrong. A young boy slugs his way out of a third world ghetto and into the pro boxing stratosphere, only to fall victim to mental illness, depravity, and what some have labeled "demonic possession." No, I'm not talking about Mike Tyson, though you certainly could be forgiven for thinking so. I speak not of Mike but of Ike - Ike "The President" Ibeabuchi.

As a boy in Nigeria, Ike was exposed to boxing, but he was also exposed to poverty, crime, hopelessness, and a glaring lack of education. In 1993 he was able to immigrate with his mother to Dallas, Texas, where it did not take him long to hook up with the House of Champions Gym and former welterweight star Curtis Cokes. Cokes saw potential in the sizable young heavyweight, and was proven right when Ike became a Golden Gloves champion in the space of a year.

Ike turned pro shortly thereafter, impressing everyone with his strength, hand speed, and out-and-out skill. He never lost a contest, and within three years was challenging David "The Terminator" Tua for the WBC International Heavyweight Title.

This highly anticipated clash of undefeated heavies did not disappoint. In fact, it set a record for the number of punches thrown in a heavyweight fight. Against all odds, Ibeabuchi triumphed by majority decision. It should have been his finest hour, not the beginning of the end.

Yet, clearly, Ike was never the same after this fight. Had he taken too many of Tua's heavy left hooks to the head? Or, as some folks claim, had one specific shot -administered by Tua at some point in the middle rounds - done the damage? For the first time ever, Ike was complaining of head pain after a bout. A MRI scan, however, revealed nothing out of the ordinary.

Whether or not the epic slugfest with Tua was to blame, Ike Ibeabuchi was fast becoming unglued. In a pathetic incident of what we now call "air rage," cops had to forcibly detain the incensed pugilist. He began to make ludicrous monetary demands of his promoters. He was tormented by demons visible only to his mother and himself. Much of his lunacy was reserved for his hapless sparring partners; one's head was split open, another almost had his leg broken.

A few months after the Tua fight, Ike abducted the son of a former girlfriend, threw him into his car, and drove straight into a concrete pillar, permanently injuring the poor boy. This atrocity earned Ike a paltry two months behind bars, but he was forced to pay an undisclosed amount of money to the boy's mother.

Incredibly, Ibeabuchi was permitted to continue boxing, where his madness seemed to work for him. He tore apart journeymen Tim Ray and Everton Davis, and became the first (and, so far, the only) man to stop "Rapid Fire" Chris Byrd. One thunderous left hook in the fifth round had Byrd down twice, and a subsequent barrage of power punches prompted the referee to put an end to the fight.

A few months later, Ike summoned a lap dancer to his hotel room at The Mirage in Las Vegas. The girl insisted on a cash payment up front, which enraged Ike to the extent that he forced her into a closet and raped her. The 6'2", 245 lb fighter brilliantly sought to evade capture by hiding in the bathroom; a few strategically directed shots of police-issue pepper spray managed to "flush" him out of there.

Ibeabuchi was subsequently sentenced to a whole heap of jail time for this misdeed, although rumors are circulating that various lawyers - who just happen to be fight fans - are working pro bono for his early release. They are reasonably confident that he will be out in six months to a year, despite his being anything but a model prisoner.

Ibeabuchi's life story and Tyson's read the same. Both boxers A) grew up more or less destitute B) rose to dizzying heights as heavyweight bangers with finesse C) drove their autos into inert objects D) allegedly assaulted several women E) cited mental illness as the reason for their idiotic hijinks and, F) spent most of their respective primes behind bars. It remains to be seen, of course, whether Ibeabuchi can mount as effective a comeback as his counterpart. At twenty-nine years of age, time has certainly not run out on him.

Just how good was Ike Ibeabuchi? As a boxer, that is. Well, let's see… In 1997 he stood toe-to-toe with one of the most powerful punchers in heavyweight history, and emerged utterly victorious in the eyes of the judges. In 1999, he ensnared and summarily obliterated the slickest little stinker in heavyweight history. At the time he was being led from the Mirage in handcuffs, he was the number two heavyweight in the eyes of the IBF, and had just wrangled a three-fight deal with HBO for well over a million smackeroos. His boxing record is every bit as impressive as his prison record: 20 - 0, with 15 KO's.

Strange though this saga certainly has been (and it ain't over yet), I feel like renaming the article "The TRAGIC case of Ike Ibeabuchi." It's been tragic for Ike, and perhaps infinitely more tragic for the heavyweight division.

bennie wrote:This guy drove at 80mph into a concrete flyover in an attempt to kill both himself and his 10-year-old son!
He shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring.

They didn't ban oil after the Exxon Valdez spill, mate. Black Gold - just like Ibeabuchi.

Ike was very easy to hit, and though he took a great shot, I don't think he could have lasted long taking pastings like that. He complained of blinding headaches and strange visions after the Tua bout, and he may have sustained permanent damage from that fight.

FlawedGenius wrote:

bennie wrote:This guy drove at 80mph into a concrete flyover in an attempt to kill both himself and his 10-year-old son!
He shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring.

They didn't ban oil after the Exxon Valdez spill, mate. Black Gold - just like Ibeabuchi.

The difference being of course that the world economy would go tits up!
Cant see Ike impact being that far reaching

J wrote:

FlawedGenius wrote:

bennie wrote:This guy drove at 80mph into a concrete flyover in an attempt to kill both himself and his 10-year-old son!
He shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring.

They didn't ban oil after the Exxon Valdez spill, mate. Black Gold - just like Ibeabuchi.

The difference being of course that the world economy would go tits up!

So would Ike if he got knocked down

J wrote:

FlawedGenius wrote:

bennie wrote:This guy drove at 80mph into a concrete flyover in an attempt to kill both himself and his 10-year-old son!
He shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring.

They didn't ban oil after the Exxon Valdez spill, mate. Black Gold - just like Ibeabuchi.

The difference being of course that the world economy would go tits up!
Cant see Ike impact being that far reaching

You know what I was trying to say, smartarse.

There's plenty of money to be made out of Ike, whilever that's the case he'll get a boxing licence.

sorry dude couldnt resist.

J wrote:

FlawedGenius wrote:

bennie wrote:This guy drove at 80mph into a concrete flyover in an attempt to kill both himself and his 10-year-old son!
He shouldn't be anywhere near a boxing ring.

They didn't ban oil after the Exxon Valdez spill, mate. Black Gold - just like Ibeabuchi.

The difference being of course that the world economy would go tits up!
Cant see Ike impact being that far reaching