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You said he stopped Michael Bentt but last time I checked he got stopped by Michael Bentt. You need to check what you type kid you just embarrassed yourself by claiming Morrison knocked out a bum named Michael Bentt who in fact knocked out the bum named Tommy Morrison.Originally posted by The Italian Stallion View PostTo Hell and Back
Everybody remembers bits and pieces of information about Tommy Morrison -- tough white kid with a standout left hook who defeated George Foreman, was massacred by Ray Mercer. Co-starred in ROCKY V. Announced he was HIV-positive. Got into trouble with the law. Dropped out of sight.
Not terribly trusting of reporters, he's rarely interviewed. But when he decides to talk to you and you fill in some of the blanks, you discover there's more to Tommy Morrison than you thought.
He's been to hell and back, been screwed and tattooed, been up, been down, is now, at age 35, living quietly in Sparta, Tenn., working on his autobiography, looking for a publisher, and attending acting school. Because he was a famous white heavyweight in a fighting fraternity largely made up of **********, lots of fans assumed he started out with some kind of silver spoon. Uh uh.
Morrison began entering tough man contests AT AGE 13 to put food on the table. He was living in Jay, Olka., when his parents divorced. "My mom was a stay-at-home mom. I had to quit school and get a job at 13," he explained.
"I worked on an oil rig, at construction, and meanwhile my mother completed nursing school. I got exposed to a lot of stuff that year, including tough man contests."
Tommy, raised in a boxing family, first put on the gloves when he was seven. He fought in 242 amateur fights, "most by the time I was 13."
After a year, his mother completed training for a nursing license and Tommy was able to re-enroll in school. Meanwhile, he knocked around different locations on weekends following the tough man circuit through Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas.
His knockabout life was similar to the early days of the great Jack Dempsey, who followed a trail through mining camps and railroad yards, doing back-breaking labor by day and fighting in barroom contests at night for extra cash.
Back in Jay, Morrison excelled in high school football. "But then my senior year in high school my mom said she wanted me to fight in the Golden Gloves. My brother had won the Golden Gloves in Kansas City. We had lots of fighters in my family. I knew eventually it would be my turn.
"Oddly enough, it was something I was gifted at to some extent. But I never had a passion for it." What is his passion?
"Acting," he answered immediately. He had a three-picture deal when he performed in ROCKY V, but he was so busy training and fighting, he just let it expire.
In 1988, his senior year, he won the Kansas City Golden Gloves. In the Olympic trials, he advanced to the finals and lost to Army Sergeant Ray Mercer, eight years his senior.
Three years later Morrison would challenge then-WBO champ Mercer in Atlantic City, where Mercer caught him with a huge shot in the fifth round and knocked him unconscious with a vicious combination. It was one of the most brutal heavyweight knockouts ever seen on TV.
But Morrison was no easy mark. Before losing to Mercer, he'd stopped James (Quick) Tillis and Pinklon Thomas, both in round one. In 1993 he decisioned Foreman for the vacant WBO heavyweight title. Before he was through Morrison, whose final record was 46-3-1 (40), would stop Joe Hipp, Carl Williams, Michael Bentt, Bryan Scott and Razor Ruddock. He had a natural, one-of-a-kind, bread-and-butter hook that could end a fight at any time.
"Whenever I fought, the guy's entire career hinged on me," he recalled. "I felt like I was always subject to 10 times more criticism just because I was white. This great white hope thing was never down my alley. I always look forward to the day fighters can be recognized for their skill, not the color of their skin. But I was not in control of that."
Morrison's proudest moment may have been his 1992 victory in Reno, Nev. over tough journeyman Hipp. Morrison was cut, broke both hands, and his jaw was so severely fractured the bone separated in two. But he refused to quit and stopped Hipp in round nine.
"I had a three-fight deal signed with Don King. It was a $38.5 million contract, and the third fight was going to be with (Mike) Tyson after he got out of prison. I know I would have beaten him. That would have been my last fight - win, lose, or draw."
Then his world collapsed. The Nevada commission had just begun to test for HIV. Morrison tested positive in February 1996. A hetero***ual who'd never injected drugs, he figured he was infected by a woman. But which one? "Wilt Chamberlain had nothing on me," he said. "Infidelity was one of my biggest battles in life. I couldn't overcome it. It probably helped my first marriage crumble."
Morrison announced the lab results at a press conference in Tulsa. When he got back to Jay an hour later, the highway signs reading, "Home of Tommy Morrison" were already torn down. "My best friends wouldn't even wave at me," he recalled. "These people were just complete idiots. Uneducated people. No class at all."
He came home from a ski trip to discover his house had burned down. He moved to Fayeteville, Ark. "I had a lot of old friends there. It seemed they were all into the drug scene. I tried it for a couple months, didn't like it, and that was that."
He was stopped several times on traffic offenses, including DUI. Meanwhile, a "friend" was supposed to be getting a security system installed in Morrison's Corvette.
"He was cooking up speed and trading with this other guy for *******, I found out later." His friend kept stalling on returning the car, so Morrison just took it back. Police had staked out the man's house. They followed Morrison and found "either 11 or 18 grams of ******* in the trunk, depending on which report you believed," Morrison said.
He had a permit to carry a firearm. Having the drugs and gun together got him charged with six felonies, each punishable by 40 to life. He copped a plea and in January 2000 was sentenced to two years. In prison, another con leaned on him, and Morrison "busted him up some. They put me in the hole for awhile." After that, "I was really well-liked among the inmates."
But not among guards. They despised him for being famous, for being a drug felon. He said they repeatedly planted contraband tobacco in his cell. He didn't smoke. Each time his sentence was extended two months. He spent much time in the hole and in a lockup with mentally ill inmates who "did the thorazine shuffle," too zoned out on medication to speak.
To keep himself from going crazy, he told himself, "I did a lot of things in my life I didn't get caught for."
Eventually, through correspondence, he found an ordinary citizen who took his case to the corrections department, and he was moved to another institution. He served 14 months altogether.
The ex-millionaire's bankroll was down to $11,000. His wife, who'd divorced him, ended up with appreciably more, he said. He gets a disability check and his second wife, Dawn, works as an interior designer.
He takes a drug ****tail and has never showed HIV symptoms. His wife had a son through artificial insemination, and they recently discovered a new lab process that will "wash" his semen so he and Dawn can safely conceive his child. That would be his fourth.
Tommy Morrison remains a boxing fan and talks knowledgeably about what's going on in the game.
"I spent two Christmases in prison," he said. "It changed me as an individual." The changes, he said, were positive ones.
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Carl Williams - Steve Zouski - Lorenzo Boyd - Lorenzo Canady all these men have stated that Tyson hit harder than Tommy Morrison.Originally posted by DLT View PostYeah, he really hit harder then Tyson
Also Thomas Tillis and Foreman were all over the hill when they faced Morrison so of course his power will seem a bit different considering that they have been in allot of wars before him. Foreman himself said Morrison didn't hit hard, that he has been hit harder by allot of others. In fact had Foreman been younger he would have finished Morrison off easily, he had him hurt more than once in their fight but because of his old age and diminishing reflexes couldn't finish him.
Still Tyson hits harder than Morrison and that is a fact, all of the opponents Morrison faced that Tyson had faced he faced them after Tyson had them already. Fact is Morrison is a bum and should stay that way forever!Comment
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your full of crap. pinklon thomas,,tillis and razor ruddock all said morrsion hit harder than tyson,,, and ray mercer who's been whacked by lewis and wlad among others says morrsion hit the hardest of them allOriginally posted by metalinmybrain View PostComment
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You've just embarrassed youself by bumping a thread thats over 2 years old and calling out a poster that hasn't been on here in eons.Originally posted by metalinmybrain View Post
Go tommy tho, he has hiv and hes still fighting ain't that kinda wrong?Comment
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lol,,,,funny I didnt even realize this thread was so old. looks like this clown that bumped it must have a bizarre obsession with morrison or somethingOriginally posted by oovavu View PostComment
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Every one needs their own weird obsession even if it is the master race.Originally posted by beez721 View PostComment
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please kid, if you would take the time as to go and check out the Wikipedia information about Thomas and how far past his prime he was when he faced Morrison. This clearly states that he was far passed it against Morrison. Hell he only had one defeat prior to facing Tyson and it was a decision at the hands of future victim of Tyson's Trevor Berbick. Also Tyson is the only man to knock Thomas out! Tillis Thomas Williams Zouski Foreman all these men were far past their respective primes when they faced Morrison, but still Zouski and Williams said Tyson was the hardest they had faced. You don't prove anything kid because there will always be fighters that beg to differ on who hit them harder. Fact of the matter is, Tommy Morrison was and always will be a bum. He got knocked senseless against an even bigger.....well can't say bigger bum because he beat Morrison unless that makes Morrison a bigger bum than the bum who beat him Michael Bentt. Either way, Morrison gotOriginally posted by beez721 View Post
in that fight and nothing can change that. Mercer gave Morrison the beating from hell, as Tommy gets done in trying to attack for a title then gets annihilated trying to defend a title just once. All in all his record is nothing short of old timers and classic tomato cans. Nothing more nothing less, Tyson would mop the floor with his hype ass get the hell out of here kid!
Tyson knocks Carl Williams senseless with one punch in the very first round, with the best left hook in the history of heavyweight boxing. Steve Zouski gets knocked out cold with yet again that left hook and suffers his first knockout of his career, was never knocked off his feet prior to fighting Tyson. Both men strongly suggest that Morrison isn't that hard of a puncher, Zouski went the distance with him and Williams got robbed of a weak stoppage, he had Morrison rocked by knocking him down twice in one round.
All in all Tommy "plagued with a weak chin" Morrison was nothing more than a hype.
About this thread, just wanted to give my opinion on it who gives a flying **** if it is centuries old, it feels good to jump onto the bones of you nut hugging glass chinned Morrison fan boys!
beez721"peeleft:
beat it kid,
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