Tommy Morrison has died

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    speeds $2.50 highball, $1.50 beer Staff Member Administrator GFX Team

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    http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/09/tommy-morrison-dead-44-aids-complications-hiv-denial

    Former heavyweight boxing champion and Rocky V star Tommy Morrison died last night, most likely of complications from AIDS, though not if you ask his wife, Trish, who says it was a variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome called Miller-Fisher Syndrome. In 1996, when he was 27, Morrison twice tested positive for HIV. Later he became convinced that HIV was a myth, and after a dubious negative test for HIV in 2007, fought two more times (we last wrote about that in 2007), and failed to show for additional drug tests where the results would’ve been less dubious. The writer of that KansasCity.com piece reported that Morrison had skin lesions and claimed to be having unprotected sex with his wife. According to an incredibly fascinating though depressing ESPN piece from last week, Morrison had been bedridden for a year and had been kept alive with a ventilator and feeding tube.

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    The guy was a loon but he made his mark on boxing and pop culture.
     
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    Tommy was never in a boring fight. He had a fantastic left hook & a glass jaw Thanks for all the memories Tommy R.I.P.
     
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    He was a major talent and his career and life was cut short. RIP
     

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