Edwin Valero's death is fourth boxing suicide in a year(USA Today)

There has been studies that boxers especially good ones, are manic depressive. And being in the ring give them a sense of belonging and bliss that can't really be substituted by anything else. Makes a lot of sense if you look back at the history of the sport. this is very true but extends to all great 'artists' whether music etc. just look at composer beethoven he wanted to commit suicide etc

Maybe the economy is causing people to act crazy?

Edwin Valero's life came to a shocking end yesterday morning, when he hanged himself in a jail cell with his own clothes, hours before he was expected to be arraigned for the murder of his wife. But within the sport of boxing, suicides by prominent fighters perhaps are becoming more common. Forbes magazine's Michael Ozanian says there have been four such suicides in the part year, including Valero, 28. The others: In September, Ireland's Darren Sutherland, 27, was found hanged in his own home. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In July, authorities in Brazil ruled the death of former world champion Arturo Gatti, 37, a suicide. Initially, Gatti's 23-year-old wife was a suspect. Also in July, Alexis Arguello shot himself to death. The Nicaraguan had been a world champion in three weight divisions. I still don't believe Gatti committed suicide. Me neither. It's a tragic trend, but I seriously cannot believe that Thunder would kill himself. His wife was a prime suspect and I heard something about that investigation being discretely continued.

There has been studies that boxers especially good ones, are manic depressive. And being in the ring give them a sense of belonging and bliss that can't really be substituted by anything else. Makes a lot of sense if you look back at the history of the sport.

I alway questioned Arguello's being a suicide. First he involved in politics in a country where unexplainable things happen all the time and secondly, rarely in gun related suicides does the person shoot himself in the chest to do it. It is done with a head shot 98% of the time.

tragic........

It's heartbreaking man, too many deaths.

Gatti wasn't a suicide and clearly obvious. Only a crackhead thinks you can hang yourself with a purse-strap, and when the examiner checked around his neck it looked like he was hung by a rope and not a purse-strap. Brazil is a shithole country with so much corruption.

Arguello's problems weren't caused by boxing though. In fact I'd rather say that his problems were caused by the lack of boxing in his life, which he admitted. He came from a rough upbringing and had a father who attempted suicide numerous times. Many of his family members were killed in war. Boxing gave him a chance to succeed in life, but after boxing he turned to drugs. To a lesser extent the same might go for Arturo Gatti, whose life was only kept in control by boxing.

3 out of the 4 still carry some lingering doubt with me.

And like so many of them, his abrupt and brutal exit speaks to a sport that too often denies even its best a happy ending.

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