Ike Ibeabuchi - what really happened?

[K-Nan]

Ibeabuchi:
I believe what the fans really want to know, is whether I am in shape. The answer is yes. I’m in shape to fight right now. My boxing program includes shadow boxing and the study of “Psycho-pugilism”. God willing, I shall introduce the world of boxing to my new supreme delicacy Psycho-pugilism (The Food of The Warrior Boxing God) upon my eventual return to the ring.

Yeah... He's a character.

[Juniorvt]

stamina, speed, chin he had it all but his power was overrated i'm afraid

[slickPUG]

Ike was really something. A bigger man was fast hands, a rock hard chin, good skills, strong as a bull, excellent stamina...he was very athletic, and coordinated, and built like a tank. I really thought he was going to become the heavyweight champion. Compare Ike to some of the heavyweight prospects of right now that some people are getting excited about, he would have blasted all of them. He fought a young, motivated David Tua, stood in with him for 12 rounds and battled it out, not trying to be slick and outbox him, but stood in and traded, he ate some big shots and barely blinked, and he destroyed a young, very fast &slick Chris Byrd, pretty easily, just by pressuring him, and hitting him all over, not getting caught up in Byrd's game. At the time, I thought he had a shot to beat Lennox Lewis, but we'll never know, wasted talent, for sure. Back when Ike was fighting, I remember reading about a possible fight with Michael Grant, and the winner to face Lewis....Ike woulda plowed Grant down, and the Lewis-Ibeabuchi bout might have happened, I think it would have been one hell of a scrap. The man was a loose cannon though, I think was Ring magazine who wanted to do an interview with him, but he wouldn't do it unless they called him the president when they talked to him over the phone....he flipped out on his sparring partner Ezra Sellers as well at one point, I think over a cut he got in sparring, and blamed Sellers, saying he was wearing a ring under his boxing glove or some crazy crap like that. Too bad. I read a little about him hearing voices (he thought were God's), and seeing "demons"...though I don't really recall much about that.

[phallus]

stamina, speed, chin he had it all but his power was overrated i'm afraid

Ike was really something. A bigger man was fast hands, a rock hard chin, good skills, strong as a bull, excellent stamina...he was very athletic, and coordinated, and built like a tank. I really thought he was going to become the heavyweight champion. Compare Ike to some of the heavyweight prospects of right now that some people are getting excited about, he would have blasted all of them. He fought a young, motivated David Tua, stood in with him for 12 rounds and battled it out, not trying to be slick and outbox him, but stood in and traded, he ate some big shots and barely blinked, and he destroyed a young, very fast &slick Chris Byrd, pretty easily, just by pressuring him, and hitting him all over, not getting caught up in Byrd's game. At the time, I thought he had a shot to beat Lennox Lewis, but we'll never know, wasted talent, for sure. Back when Ike was fighting, I remember reading about a possible fight with Michael Grant, and the winner to face Lewis....Ike woulda plowed Grant down, and the Lewis-Ibeabuchi bout might have happened, I think it would have been one hell of a scrap. The man was a loose cannon though, I think was Ring magazine who wanted to do an interview with him, but he wouldn't do it unless they called him the president when they talked to him over the phone....he flipped out on his sparring partner Ezra Sellers as well at one point, I think over a cut he got in sparring, and blamed Sellers, saying he was wearing a ring under his boxing glove or some crazy crap like that. Too bad. I read a little about him hearing voices (he thought were God's), and seeing "demons"...though I don't really recall much about that.

i was a big fan of ike's, he had skills and speed and ****ing granite chin, tua couldn't knock him out, but the man is mentally unstable. if he'd been hw champ he would have still ****d a hooker and beat up a room full of cops though

[slickPUG]

I agree with ya

[duffgun]

Ike was really something. A bigger man was fast hands, a rock hard chin, good skills, strong as a bull, excellent stamina...he was very athletic, and coordinated, and built like a tank. I really thought he was going to become the heavyweight champion. Compare Ike to some of the heavyweight prospects of right now that some people are getting excited about, he would have blasted all of them. He fought a young, motivated David Tua, stood in with him for 12 rounds and battled it out, not trying to be slick and outbox him, but stood in and traded, he ate some big shots and barely blinked, and he destroyed a young, very fast &slick Chris Byrd, pretty easily, just by pressuring him, and hitting him all over, not getting caught up in Byrd's game. At the time, I thought he had a shot to beat Lennox Lewis, but we'll never know, wasted talent, for sure. Back when Ike was fighting, I remember reading about a possible fight with Michael Grant, and the winner to face Lewis....Ike woulda plowed Grant down, and the Lewis-Ibeabuchi bout might have happened, I think it would have been one hell of a scrap. The man was a loose cannon though, I think was Ring magazine who wanted to do an interview with him, but he wouldn't do it unless they called him the president when they talked to him over the phone....he flipped out on his sparring partner Ezra Sellers as well at one point, I think over a cut he got in sparring, and blamed Sellers, saying he was wearing a ring under his boxing glove or some crazy crap like that. Too bad. I read a little about him hearing voices (he thought were God's), and seeing "demons"...though I don't really recall much about that.

I think Ike vs Lewis would have made a great trilogy.

[DELETED ACCOUNT 06]

That would have been interesting, however I wonder if Lennox would start wondering why he always had to fight pyschopathic rapists all the time.

[Brother Blues]

A sad waste of talent...he and Tony Ayala are the poster boys for 'what could have been'.
Both had Hall of Fame talent...especially Ayala.Ike,if he had a sound mind would beat any heavyweight today.Wlad Klitschko would have fainted in his presence...

But...as the Despair inc. saying goes,"sometimes the meaning of your life is a warning to others"...sadly.

[Feint]

But...as the Despair inc. saying goes,"sometimes the meaning of your life is a warning to others"...sadly.

Good quote.

Mental illness is sad. Unfortunately I have a feeling because he was a boxer and people tend to associate boxers with eccentric behavior his illness was probably initially ignored.

However, having said that mental illness or not, he deserved to go to prison for what he did.

[Jim Jeffries]

Shouldn't Ike be getting out about now? Be funny if he made a comeback.