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Did Tommy Morrison really have AIDs?
Now shut up about the title lol.
I love watching KOs and I was just watching Tommy Morrison getting knocked out by Ray Mercer and it got me thinking. Did Tommy really have aids or was this a bad mistake that ruined a guys career ?
In 1996, Morrison was scheduled to fight against Arthur Weathers. The Nevada Athletic Commission determined that Morrison had tested positive for HIV and immediately and indefinitely worldwide suspended him from boxing on February 10, 1996.[citation needed]
In 2006, the Nevada commission lifted the suspension.[citation needed]
Morrison tested negative for HIV four times in January 2007. That year, he began fighting again.After passing medical tests in Texas, West ******ia licensed Morrison to fight in that state. In February 2007 he fought and beat John Castle. In June, Morrison's former agent, Randy Lang, alleged that Morrison had tested positive in January and that the boxer had tampered with blood samples. Morrison responded that he had fired Lang when he discovered that Lang was not a lawyer.
On July 22, 2007, the New York Times reported that Morrison took two HIV tests in 2007 and a third specifically for the Times. HIV experts reviewed the three tests and concluded that the 1996 result had been a false positive. But ringside doctors, including Nevada's chief ringside physician, expressed doubt. They implied that the negative results were not in fact based on Morrison's blood. The experts agreed that no one is ever cured of HIV; if the negative tests from 2007 were performed on Morrison's blood, then he had never been infected with HIV.
In 2009, Morrison also tested HIV negative in Wyoming, in a supervised test by the Colorado commission.
In January 2011, the RACJ, the boxing commission for the province of Quebec, required that Morrison take a supervised HIV test in advance of a scheduled 2011 fight. Morrison invited the Quebec commission to attend a public test, but the commission did not come. Morrison stated that if Quebec refused to license him, he would "take the dog and pony show somewhere else."
In 2016 the Nevada commission and laboratory admitted that they had not diagnosed Morrison with HIV in 1996.
Ok ok. So he admitted to having *** with his first wife unprotected. His window also doesn’t have AIDS. None of his kids has aids. AIDS was not in his blood when he died.
WTF is going on here in this wild story?
Now shut up about the title lol.
I love watching KOs and I was just watching Tommy Morrison getting knocked out by Ray Mercer and it got me thinking. Did Tommy really have aids or was this a bad mistake that ruined a guys career ?
In 1996, Morrison was scheduled to fight against Arthur Weathers. The Nevada Athletic Commission determined that Morrison had tested positive for HIV and immediately and indefinitely worldwide suspended him from boxing on February 10, 1996.[citation needed]
In 2006, the Nevada commission lifted the suspension.[citation needed]
Morrison tested negative for HIV four times in January 2007. That year, he began fighting again.After passing medical tests in Texas, West ******ia licensed Morrison to fight in that state. In February 2007 he fought and beat John Castle. In June, Morrison's former agent, Randy Lang, alleged that Morrison had tested positive in January and that the boxer had tampered with blood samples. Morrison responded that he had fired Lang when he discovered that Lang was not a lawyer.
On July 22, 2007, the New York Times reported that Morrison took two HIV tests in 2007 and a third specifically for the Times. HIV experts reviewed the three tests and concluded that the 1996 result had been a false positive. But ringside doctors, including Nevada's chief ringside physician, expressed doubt. They implied that the negative results were not in fact based on Morrison's blood. The experts agreed that no one is ever cured of HIV; if the negative tests from 2007 were performed on Morrison's blood, then he had never been infected with HIV.
In 2009, Morrison also tested HIV negative in Wyoming, in a supervised test by the Colorado commission.
In January 2011, the RACJ, the boxing commission for the province of Quebec, required that Morrison take a supervised HIV test in advance of a scheduled 2011 fight. Morrison invited the Quebec commission to attend a public test, but the commission did not come. Morrison stated that if Quebec refused to license him, he would "take the dog and pony show somewhere else."
In 2016 the Nevada commission and laboratory admitted that they had not diagnosed Morrison with HIV in 1996.
Ok ok. So he admitted to having *** with his first wife unprotected. His window also doesn’t have AIDS. None of his kids has aids. AIDS was not in his blood when he died.
WTF is going on here in this wild story?
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