What ever happened to: Boxer Tommy Morrison?

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Remember Tommy "The Duke" Morrison? He had a star role in Rocky V. He was billed as the "Great White Hope" He was a two time heavyweight boxing champion, defeating George Foreman and Razor Ruddock. Then at his peak, Morrison contracted the HIV virus in early 1996 after he had signed a contract worth $38 million that would have seen him fight Mike Tyson in late 96/early 97.




So what ever became of Tommy Morrison?

You are better off not knowing (to be continued....)

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Tommy Morrison today:





HIV POSITIVE ROCKY V STAR HAS SKIN LESIONS, UNPROTECTED SEX


Morrison’s rough Oklahoma twang will spell out all kinds of ideas, things that would blow your mind if they existed outside his reality. Telekinesis, for instance. He hasn’t quite figured it out, but he’d rather be invisible, anyway. Just think of all the stuff he could learn. One time he teleported himself out of a bar, and did you know the human body can re-grow limbs?

His face is worn and his skin sags in places, but he insists he’s in the best shape of his life. He’s going to be heavyweight champion again if boxing lets him back in, and this brings up HIV. It always comes back to HIV with Tommy, even over breakfast, so he chops up his $12 steak and eggs and tells you he is the victim of a wild conspiracy.

They stole his career, he says, at least a $38 million contract and who knows how much after that? They stole his good name, too. Made him admit to the world he has HIV. But that was before he found out that HIV doesn’t exist. It was invented to control people, he tells you, and he can go on and on about this all day.

He takes another bite and looks at his girlfriend, a woman from England named Trisha. “We have unprotected sex,” she says.

Tommy is still chewing, but laughs. “Every day,” he says. “We’re wild.”

Tommy has spots all over his hands and arms. They’re distracting when you meet him. You can’t miss them. He blames his boxer puppy. Only the spots aren’t bite marks or scratches, and so now Tommy says they’re mosquito bites. Mosquitoes love him, he says.

Except it’s the middle of winter, and the marks look a lot like the HIV symptom of lesions or Kaposi’s sarcoma.

Tommy wants to talk to you about HIV. It’s a farce, he says. An invention by a scientist who wanted to make money, a lie kept alive by a government that wants to scare people. He doesn’t have HIV, never did, and besides, it’s not the deadly disease it’s been made out to be.

What he says sounds crazy, but there is an obvious and undeniable fact sitting in front of you: Tommy Morrison is still alive and apparently healthy, 15 years after testing positive for HIV. Magic Johnson tested positive five years before Tommy, but Johnson has wealth and the very best medical care.

Tommy isn’t broke, exactly, but lives a paycheck-to-paycheck sort of life and says he’s never taken any medication for HIV. In fact, he served 14 months in prison for drugs and weapons charges in the early 2000s, talks of past methamphetamine binges, and was arrested on another drug charge as recently as last year. This is not a man who follows doctors’ orders.

Tommy Morrison figures you won’t believe him, but he’ll tell you anyway about the time he teleported himself out of trouble.

It was in a dark and shady bar in Springfield. Daytime. A group of people sat around a table in the back corner, and Tommy instantly felt like he’d walked in on something. He says there was “an overwhelming feeling of evil” in that room, and he knew he had to get out. So he lowered his head and shut his eyes and when he woke up he was standing outside in bright daylight.

“I know it sounds (messed) up,” he says. “But I’ll tell you what, it happened to me. It’s real. But things like this don’t work for anybody that doesn’t believe it.”

[selanne405]

I think starring in the ill fated Rocky 5 may have hexed him.

[phillymike]

He's dead now. Septemebr 1, 2013, in Omaha Nebraska.

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Mar 8, 2014 11:39:55 GMT -6 phillymike said:

He's dead now. Septemebr 1, 2013, in Omaha Nebraska.

He was an HIV denialist right up until the end. Even for the last year of his life, when he was bedridden, and dying. I still cannot believe there is a fringe movement in North America, that actually believes HIV either does not exist, or causes AIDS. They should seriously make it a crime for parents not to take anti-HIV drugs while pregnant, or who refuse to give the drugs to their HIV infected children.