Boxing Legend Tommy Morrison, RIP, AIDS?

[TSLoverIB]

Hey everyone
Not sure who here likes boxing.
Watched several of Tommy Morrisons fights, unreal power, awsome in Rocky V.

His mother released a statement his heath has declined the past year, he was on feeding tubes. She states her son was dying of AIDS.

He denied until his last breath that he did not have AIDS. Not sure if he did, but from the looks of his face and size, weight deterioration one can only speculate.

That damn disease is VICIOUS.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...at-44/2755083/

Please be careful people, reckless behavior, unprotected.

I grew up in the 80's, seem people here one day, gone the next.

He was a good fighter for the small time he was around in the ring.
I only hope he will rest in peace as well.

[broncofan]

I don't wish hardship on anyone. It's very sad that Tommy Morrison died of this terrible disease.

But he should be condemned for preaching that HIV does not cause AIDS. It's a delusional and dangerous belief.

As for his career as a boxer, I don't agree with the article that he would be a champion today. He fought well against George Foreman and Razor Ruddock but he suffered massive losses to Ray Mercer and Lennox Lewis. The testing for steroids today is a little bit better than it was then, and so as someone who admitted to using, he'd have to be a little better at evading the system. He'd be a top five fighter perhaps, but I don't think he'd beat the Klitschko brothers (particularly Vitali) at their best.

[cameron47]

RIP...Tommy Gunn. It's a shame when someone leaves us at such a young age.

[TSLoverIB]

I agree bronco, i would not think he would be the best but as you stated in the day, maybe the top five. If you look at the time he was fighting between, the likes of tyson and foremon, lewis. You do not really see many fighters like any of them. I personally always like ali and delahoya and roy jones jr, different styles, different times, but same all good fighters. I wished delahoya would have knocked mayweathers block off. But a winner is a winner.

I agree cameron, it is shame

[broncofan]

He was a massive puncher. I wonder how much of that was aided by the steroids...but also whether others were using. Maybe he'd be just as good a puncher without. He could fight, that's for sure.

When I talk about the HIV denial, it's not to insult a man who just died. It's just an unavoidable topic with someone who refused treatment and encouraged others to do the same. Nobody, not even someone who encourages others to avoid treatment, deserves to die the awful, painful death that he died.

But it's just very difficult to read that he continued to engage in unprotected intercourse with his spouse/gf. Every time someone with these views dies of a rare type of pneumonia at a young age they have someone come out and say that it was really a bizarre infection, a nutritional deficiency, or medical malfeasance. But they die the way people die when HIV progresses to AIDS and they don't take any of the treatments that could have prevented that progression.

To avoid the psychic discomfort of living with a potentially fatal disease, he told others to ignore their doctor's advice and condemned them to the same awful death. Nobody deserves that.

[youngblood61]

Sorry he passed. He was an ok fighter nothing great.

[timxxx]

More of a acting legend than a boxing legend.

R.I.P

[TSLoverIB]

Yes in one point, i could agree with you tim