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Boxer Tommy Morrison of "Rocky V" fame dies at 44
Tommy Morrison, the former heavyweight champion who stood toe-to-toe with Lennox Lewis and George Foreman and later tested positive for HIV, died Monday. He was 44. Morrison died Sunday night at a ...
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Former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison - who starred in Rocky V - and was diagnosed with HIV, dies at 44
Tommy Morrison, the former heavyweight champion who stood toe-to-toe with Lennox Lewis and George Foreman and later tested positive for HIV, died Monday. He was 44. Morrison died Sunday night at a ...
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Ex-heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison dies at 44
"Tommy's a very stubborn person ... the good was quickly followed by the bad. Morrison was in line for a high-profile bout with Lennox Lewis when he was upset by unheralded fighter Michael Bentt ...
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Boxer Tommy Morrison dies at 44
Tommy Morrison's career reached its pinnacle on ... by the bad.Morrison was in line for a high-profile bout with Lennox Lewis when he was upset by unheralded fighter Michael Bentt in Tulsa ...
Tulsa World11y
Tommy Morrison remembered as a 'great fighter to watch'
"Tommy Morrison's ring style should be a life lesson ... already had agreed to the terms of a $7 million meeting with Lennox Lewis - when he decided to defend his title against Michael Bentt ...
CNN11y
Ex-boxer Tommy Morrison, ‘Rocky V’ co-star, dies
Tommy Morrison, a former heavyweight boxing champion ... He also fought and lost to boxing great Lennox Lewis in 1995.
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Morrison, Magic synonymous with HIV; that's where similarity ends
He suffered a broken jaw in victory, he went 12 rounds with George Foreman and he went six rounds with Lennox Lewis. Did Tommy Morrison suffer from brain damage? Does that explain how a man with ...
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Tommy Morrison played ‘Tommy Gunn’ in Rocky V, was due to fight Mike Tyson, punched harder than Lennox Lewis and even beat George Foreman – but tragically died aged just 44
Tommy Morrison was one of the hardest hitters of ... Just days before the fight, talks about a unification fight with WBC champion Lennox Lewis had reportedly begun. Yet the unknown Bentt had ...
The New York Times5y
Tommy Morrison
A day after TOMMY MORRISON announced he had tested positive for H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, the referee in his fight with LENNOX LEWIS last fall decided to take an H.I.V. test of his own.
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I fought Tommy Morrison, Lennox Lewis KO’d me but Mike Tyson hits like sub-machine gun and James ‘Bonecrusher’ Smith’s punches felt like an earthquake
The 59-year-old, who is still active in exhibition bouts to this day, fought heavyweight titans like Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis ... took on the hard hitting Tommy Morrison in June 1995, but ...
Los Angeles Times11y
Tommy Morrison dies at 44; former heavyweight boxing champion
Morrison later lost to another former distinguished heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis. “Tommy had a good left hook and quite a bit of ring savvy, and if his opponent was having a little bit of ...