It reached its lowest point when he tested positive for HIV three years later.
20 years of life boxer cheeky is determined by legal troubles extensive, abnormal behavior and mounting health problems , Morrison would later claim that he never tested positive for the virus that causes . of AIDS , even as he had been hospitalized during the last days of his life.
Morrison died in hospital on Sunday night at Nebraska, he was 44.
Promoter, his longtime friend and confidant of Tony Holden confirmed that "Duke" died, his family would not disclose the cause of death , Morrison and his wife, Trisha , he continued to deny that the former champion. had HIV during the last years of his life.
"Tommy was very stubborn and they look at things that way . He wants to see what is right and his right , " Holden said," Throughout his career, he and I will not have a physical , but a conflict with something , we usually end up with . friend Tommy .
"That's how Tommy took off after he said that he was HIV positive, " Holden added, " When he first said that I was taking him to seek treatment and the doctors are different . throughout the country , he began research on Internet and said it was . Collude He went in that direction and never looked back . "
Controversy with a rapidly declining Morrison , overshadowed a stellar career .
Morrison punches enormous bid to compete in the Olympics in 1988 in Seoul ended at the hands of Ray Mercer , which he managed to lose the first professional on his way to Moscow . Morrison became a recognizable face that he was thrown in the Rocky V Sylvester Stallone .
Morrison won the first of his 28 professional fights , beating the fading as Pinklon Thomas along the way he hit it big at the Thomas & Mack Center in the summer of 1993 - a unanimous decision , Chief . then in the midst of a comeback - his world title vacant.
As with many things in life, a good teacher , followed quickly by the poor .
Morrison in line for the high-profile Lennox Lewis and when he was upset by unheralded boxer Michael Bentt in Tulsa, Okla. , Not far from where Morrison was raised he was . knocked down three times before the fight . Has been called the first round. Ended .
Potential loss to $ 7,500,000 payday for the unification title fight just lost.
"I dashed when I should have zagged," Morrison said afterwards, " It was one of . Those situations where you have to live with and learn from it , I 'll be back . " .
Morrison actually came back but he was never the same fighter that he beat a bunch of pictures and star fade over the next few years before they knocked out by Lewis in the sixth round .
The fight that occurred in October 1995 February by Morrison had tested positive for HIV .
He 'd been . Prepare for battle in the winter when the blood came back positive for the virus that causes AIDS , Morrison license suspended by quickly and Nevada banned is upheld . the draft approved by every other Morrison said at a news conference in 1996 that he never fought again against his fate in "permissive lifestyle . Fast and careless . "
His lifestyle had not changed , but even as he stepped out of the ring.
He was already running afoul of the law in 1993 when he pleaded guilty to assaulting a college student, he was involved with the weapon and DUI incident several years ago .
Morrison was jailed . Finally to two years in prison in 2000 and another year added to his sentence in 2002 because of parole violations .
When he was released , Morrison said he tested HIV positive are in fact false, and he wants to be. He started his career through medical tests in Arizona - even while Nevada stands by the decision. To hold . License - his return to the ring and Morrison fight again in his career, winning once in West Virginia, and the last time in Mexico , he finished with a record of 48-3-1 with 42 knockouts.
Morrison began to fade from the public eye in the last years of his life , he tries to connect with the sport by opening a gym in Wichita, Kan. , but the short-term .
" If Tommy was fighting today, he no doubt would be a world champion, " Holden said, "You have to look at where he had been in a fight in the 90's they were in that Tyson Lennox . Max Lewis, Riddick Bowe , Ray Mercer , George Foreman, for there is no one who has the talent today that Tommy would win if he was in the prime of his boxing today.
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