Boxers deaths outside the ring other than natural

[GhostofDempsey]

Bill Brennan was murdered by the mob.

Harry Greb and Tiger Flowers died from complications during surgery. They were each 32 when they died.

[JAB5239]

Bill Brennan was murdered by the mob.

Harry Greb and Tiger Flowers died from complications during surgery. They were each 32 when they died.

Was it the mob that killed Brennan? I read street thugs after he threw them out of his bar, but haven't researched it.

[GhostofDempsey]

Was it the mob that killed Brennan? I read street thugs after he threw them out of his bar, but haven't researched it.

Yeah, they insisted he was buying his beer from the wrong vendor and that he needed to be buying it from some local mobster. He tossed them out and then someone else lured him outside and he was shot.

[joseph5620]

You did a great job with this and it was tough to find another fighter. The only other I could think of was Tyrone Everett who was murdered under strange circumstances.

[QueensburyRules]

You did a great job with this and it was tough to find another fighter. The only other I could think of was Tyrone Everett who was murdered under strange circumstances.

- - His wife tracked him down at his g a y l ov e r' s place and shot him up.

[JAB5239]

- - His wife tracked him down at his g a y l ov e r' s place and shot him up.

Hey Queenie, do you remember Joseph from the AOL forum? I do. We go way back on that forum, him and i.

[Tatabanya]

Jackie Paterson
Al Bummy Davis

[The D3vil]

Sonny Liston

They aint ready for this discussion

[Mr Mitts]

Even Butterbean has already lived to the ripe old age of 58. Any which way he dies, will it be natural, I should say can it?

[Zyzzyx]

Young Stribling died at 28 in a motorcycle accident. He managed nearly 300 professional fights and over 100 KO's despite dying young. He'd probably be the current record holder for both if he'd survived and kept fighting at his absurd pace.