Mike Wyant
Name: Mike Wyant
Birth Name: Michael Wyant
Hometown: Hamilton, Ohio, USA
Died: 1979-08-12 (Age:29)
Pro Boxer: Record
Amateur Boxer: Record
- Biography***
Wyant was shot to to death by Terry Wogenstahl outside of the Hamilton Plaza Shopping Centre. The two men had been quarreling, when Wyant was shot and killed. Wogenstahl remained in the parking lot until police arrived, and was subsequently arrested and charged with voluntary manslaughter. In October, a Butler County grand jury declined to indict Wogenstahl on the charge of voluntary manslaughter.
Wyant had won an Armed Forces welterweight championship in 1973, while serving in the military. Wyant had served in Vietnam, and had reportedly won a Silver Star, for rescuing three fellow Marines under fire, and also being wounded.
Wyant, who had a colorful reputation, and trouble with the law was quoted in the Cincinnati Enquirer, the March before his death as saying about his life in Hamilton "There are too many would-be gangsters here. ... I've got the feeling if I don't get out of this town, I'll either get killed of kill somebody myself."
Source:
- "Slain Local Prizefighter Foresaw His Own Death", Cincinnati Enquirer, August 13, 1979
- "No Indictment in Shooting of Hamilton Boxer", Cincinnati Enquirer, October 5, 1979.