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I was watching an old Shazzon Bradley fight today and started wondering what ever happened to him. I knew was an undefeated heavyweight that had to retire in 1999 due to an eye injury. So I did a search to find where he is now. I didn't find much but I did find a bit about the boxers past.
Bradley fought five more times after telling this, before retiring with an injury. His final pro record ended up 22-0 after beating Everett Martin and Sedrick Fields in his final two bouts.
I still wonder whatever happened to Shazzon Bradley!
Shazzon Bradley, an undefeated heavyweight who, if he can fight, is a miniseries. Bradley said he was conceived by an act of ****. He was an abused child ("a whuppin' wasn't a whuppin', it was a killin' "), he said in a soft country accent. He ran away from his Athens, Tenn., home at the age of 9 and eventually was raised at the expense of his county. He slept at times in office buildings, cars and homes of friends. At the age of 11, he was diagnosed as ******ed.
At 16, he watched his biological father get murdered.
He subsequently graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in criminology. He was a four-year defensive star in football, starting at middle linebacker, and was drafted in the ninth round by the Green Bay Packers in 1991 as a tackle, failing the last cut.
His interest in boxing, he said yesterday, was a "weird story. My biological father was a nice guy. I don't know what happened with my mother. I think they were friends, maybe it was date ****. My mother told me I was conceived by the act of **** when I was 7 or 8 and I never asked details because I didn't want to bring her (memory) back to when it happened.
"But I really liked my father and I was always his little boy. One Saturday night, I was 16 and never went to clubs or drank I still have never touched a drop or smoked anything my friends said they were going out. I said no, but for some reason I got in my car and drove to the club. There was a fight going on, I'm still in the car, and I'm watching these guys start stabbing this guy all the way to the ground and he's fighting them all the way. I went home thinking, what a fighter, that's what I want to be."
Later, he was told his father was stabbed to death.
"I feel bad because I didn't get involved, but I think that's the night I became a fighter," said Bradley.
At 16, he watched his biological father get murdered.
He subsequently graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in criminology. He was a four-year defensive star in football, starting at middle linebacker, and was drafted in the ninth round by the Green Bay Packers in 1991 as a tackle, failing the last cut.
His interest in boxing, he said yesterday, was a "weird story. My biological father was a nice guy. I don't know what happened with my mother. I think they were friends, maybe it was date ****. My mother told me I was conceived by the act of **** when I was 7 or 8 and I never asked details because I didn't want to bring her (memory) back to when it happened.
"But I really liked my father and I was always his little boy. One Saturday night, I was 16 and never went to clubs or drank I still have never touched a drop or smoked anything my friends said they were going out. I said no, but for some reason I got in my car and drove to the club. There was a fight going on, I'm still in the car, and I'm watching these guys start stabbing this guy all the way to the ground and he's fighting them all the way. I went home thinking, what a fighter, that's what I want to be."
Later, he was told his father was stabbed to death.
"I feel bad because I didn't get involved, but I think that's the night I became a fighter," said Bradley.
I still wonder whatever happened to Shazzon Bradley!
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