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[Crimson]

THANK YOU JOHN DEWEY! Once again you've added some real gems.

In particular I was happy to see Johnny Montantes represented. He tragically died after his last fight with James Crayton in 1997. It's good to see that in our TBCB community he will now be remembered as a fighter. I know that I plan on using him in my universe.

In the grand scheme of things I guess that might be small. Having never met Mr. Montantes, or even seen him fight that I can remember, I'm still guessing that he would find it cool that he is now represented in TBCB. Where some of the hard corest of hard core boxing fans spend there time.

Thanks for posting Miguel Julio and a few others that I didn't have also.

[John Dewey]

I always have a melancholy feeling whenever I post a fighter who has died or been critically injured in the ring. Previously I submitted Willie Classen who also died. I saw Gerald McClellan fight down in Beloit when he was up and coming. Later he became Middleweight champion. Now he's blind and adalded down in his home in Freeport, Illinois requiring 24 hour nursing care courtesy of Nigel Benn. It's a brutal sport and there's always a pang of guilt in we who enjoy it. I know that more jockeys and race car drivers die or are seriously injured each year than boxers, but that does not make me feel any better. Still, my father was a boxer (amateur only I am told though there is some question about that) and I was brought up with a love for it. I hope it never gets banned but I understand those who think it should be. But you're right. By posting such a fighter in the game gives him a tiny speck of immortality. We boxing fans don't forget our dead.

[bear]

Originally Posted by John Dewey

I always have a melancholy feeling whenever I post a fighter who has died or been critically injured in the ring. Previously I submitted Willie Classen who also died. I saw Gerald McClellan fight down in Beloit when he was up and coming. Later he became Middleweight champion. Now he's blind and adalded down in his home in Freeport, Illinois requiring 24 hour nursing care courtesy of Nigel Benn. It's a brutal sport and there's always a pang of guilt in we who enjoy it. I know that more jockeys and race car drivers die or are seriously injured each year than boxers, but that does not make me feel any better. Still, my father was a boxer (amateur only I am told though there is some question about that) and I was brought up with a love for it. I hope it never gets banned but I understand those who think it should be. But you're right. By posting such a fighter in the game gives him a tiny speck of immortality. We boxing fans don't forget our dead.

John, like you I have created some files for fighters that paid the ultimate price in the ring. I have similar feelings of melancholy when doing so. I also
wonder that if by creating files for ring fatalities I'm being ghoulish. Your lines, about remembering our dead and giving them a bit of importality are a help to me. I feel heartened and uplifted by them.

bear

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This is the last batch of Lightweights. After a breather I will begin work on the Junior Lightweights.
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