SuikodenII
Where's Suikoden VI??????
There's a lot of stories on "what-if?" athletes whose careers were shortened due to unforeseen circumstances outside of the ring including Salvador Sanchez, Edwin Valero, Paul Williams, and the list goes on.
In a brutal sport where the majority of stars overstay their welcome, sometimes the reward of hard-fought victory can prove to be their downfall. In recent times, there has been actual talk and care about what happens to a human brain that is the repeated victim of concussive blows. While there is still more to be learned, we now know that head trauma that results in symptoms prudent to a concussion, or worse, need to be quickly and carefully evaluated.
Sadly, that did not happen with one of these men...
The tragic beauty of boxing, which takes as much as it gives, is while we marvel at its brutality, the long term aftermath is often ignored by those whom either simply want to see a "good scrap", are looking to make future money on said fighter, or disastrously naive in facing bitter realities.
Whichever was the case here, it resulted in a downward spiral that ended the career of the prospective "President" of the Heavyweight division in the late nineties. As for the other combatant, he was spared the consequences of war and was able to continue on a successful, yet world title-less, career for another decade.
People of The Ring, I presented to you two fights that I truly believed were top 3 Non-Title Heavyweight fights, this is final piece of the collection.
http://www.thesweetscience.com/news...hatever-happened-to-the-ike-ibeabuchi-version
^^Here is an EXCELLENT investigative report on Ike Ibeabuchi
In a brutal sport where the majority of stars overstay their welcome, sometimes the reward of hard-fought victory can prove to be their downfall. In recent times, there has been actual talk and care about what happens to a human brain that is the repeated victim of concussive blows. While there is still more to be learned, we now know that head trauma that results in symptoms prudent to a concussion, or worse, need to be quickly and carefully evaluated.
Sadly, that did not happen with one of these men...
The tragic beauty of boxing, which takes as much as it gives, is while we marvel at its brutality, the long term aftermath is often ignored by those whom either simply want to see a "good scrap", are looking to make future money on said fighter, or disastrously naive in facing bitter realities.
Whichever was the case here, it resulted in a downward spiral that ended the career of the prospective "President" of the Heavyweight division in the late nineties. As for the other combatant, he was spared the consequences of war and was able to continue on a successful, yet world title-less, career for another decade.
People of The Ring, I presented to you two fights that I truly believed were top 3 Non-Title Heavyweight fights, this is final piece of the collection.
http://www.thesweetscience.com/news...hatever-happened-to-the-ike-ibeabuchi-version
^^Here is an EXCELLENT investigative report on Ike Ibeabuchi
..id only seen ike in one other fight before this...tua was prolly going to lose at some point but not to such an unknown commodity..but what a fight 
...my nigerian bredren got put on the map...we were spoiled in the 90s with heavyweight action
