Comments Thread For: Wilford Scypion, Funeral Services To Be Held on Saturday

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A funeral service for former middleweight contender Wilford Scypion will be held at the Christian Faith Chapel in Port Arthur, Texas, Saturday morning. Scypion, who challenged Marvin Hagler for the IBF middleweight title in 1983, succumbed to pneumonia on Feb. 27 at age 55.

A former National Golden Gloves champion, Scypion was 13-0 (13 KOs) when, in 1979, he knocked out Willie Classen in the tenth round in New York. Classen died from injuries sustained in the fight. Scypion was never the same after the tragedy.
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[nycsmooth]

2 early from an illness as that...RIP... a very good boxer that unfortunately had a few better guys in his era...correct , he was never the same after Classen....