Tommy Morrison dies at 44

[JohnnyTheFox]

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/9626860/ex-heavyweight-champ-tommy-morrison-dies-44

Former WBO heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison died in an Omaha, Neb., hospital late Sunday night. He was 44.
Morrison's longtime promoter, Tony Holden, said Morrison died at 11:50 p.m. with his wife, Trisha, beside him.


Prayers go out to his immediate family. 44 yrs old is way to young to be leaving the game.
RIP

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

TGWH

 

[ologan]

Wasn't he related to "The Duke"?

 

[Hoofbite]

Wasn't he related to "The Duke"?

He had Duke tattooed on his chest, IIRC.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Wasn't he related to "The Duke"?

Grandnephew. Although I've seen reports questioning that..

 

[KJJ]

Wasn't he related to "The Duke"?

Supposedly they always referred to him as Tommy "The Duke" Morrison.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Supposedly they always referred to him as Tommy "The Duke" Morrison.

He fought under that Moniker many times.

 

[ologan]

John Wayne, aka Marion Robert Morrison.

 

[Stryker44]

Why won't they say cause of death?

 

[ologan]

Why won't they say cause of death?

Wife said she heard on the news it was AIDS.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

Wife said she heard on the news it was AIDS.

Family and Wife denied that but who really knows? He's gone.

RIP Tommy Morrison

 

[Hoofbite]

Family and Wife denied that but who really knows? He's gone.

RIP Tommy Morrison

Definitely AIDS.

Recent pictures he's just wasted. Pretty sad, I think he was refusing treatment and possibly had been for a long time. I saw a video that was linked to an article and he was denying that he had AIDS or that he ever had it.

Pretty dumb really. They've come a hell of a long way in terms of keeping people from wasting to an extent to where they can't fight off anything.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Man, I was high on him for a while.

He had a killer left hook. They said the release was the fastest they'd ever seen, faster than Tyson's hook.

Check out his knockdowns vs Razor Ruddock.