Tommy Morrison burst onto the professional boxing scene in 1988. Following a 1st round knockout of Charles Hostetetter, on October 26th, 1989, his record stood at 19-0-0, 17 knockouts. Only 3 opponents had survived the 2nd round. Sylvester Stallone and Rocky V secured Morrison a national fame platform. An October 18th, 1991, 5th round knockout loss at the hands of undefeated Ray Mercer temporarily derailed any title quest. Morrison won his next 8 bouts which secured him the opportunity to fight former Heavyweight Champion, George Foreman, 20 years his senior, for the vacant WBO title.
The issue that always seems to come up is Tommy’s Aids diagnosis and a lot of questions surround that diagnosis when the autopsy after Tommy’s death showed no HIV it makes you wonder what really happened back in 1996 in Las Vegas. Morrison was a warrior who always gave everything to the fans who watched and maybe it’s time we open our eyes and look a little deeper into his supposed HIV diagnosis. Big Pharma as you all know is not to be trusted and when you look deeper into Tommy’s story it does make you wonder?
Chris Shelton interviews Tommy Morrison: This is an interview that our reporter Chris Shelton conducted with Morrison before his death.
ME: “What could you tell me about your most famous fight, the June 7th, 1993, WBO title bout versus George Foreman?”
MORRISON:
“What people don’t understand about that fight is that I had to change my entire style in 8 weeks. By the time that I faced Foreman, I was in perfect shape. I just dominated him and I was pleased.”
ME: “You altered your entire pugilist approach. You fought more defensively, a willingness to back step, and obviously prepared yourself for a longer bout. Did you alter your physical training?”
MORRISON: “I have a great story about that. Because the guy who gave me the advice that beat Foreman was Foreman himself. I spoke to him and asked how he was able to fight longer bouts now that he was older. The guy was fighting 4-5 rounds when he was younger and now was fighting 8-10 rounds. Foreman told me to run more, not to wear myself out, but at a steady pace. Foreman told me he did this and it would help my endurance. So that’s what I did. I ran every Friday and stayed within my limits as Foreman suggested and then beat him with his advice. Foreman told me it was important to pace myself, so I did.”
ME: “How did you mentally prepare yourself against Foreman?”
MORRISON: “Ordinarily, I will have a stack of tapes on a fighter and I watch them. But with Foreman, I only watched two over and over. I studied his losses against (Muhammad) Ali and (Jimmy) Young. I saw how they moved against him and stayed away. I saw that that’s how you beat someone like Foreman, to stay away and pace yourself. In between rounds, you only get, oh, 50 seconds to rest. I took advantage of every opportunity to save my energy. Foreman felt that I would stand up to him and fight. He would never have taken that fight if he thought otherwise. His people wouldn’t have let him. But when I saw how Ali and Young beat him, then I decided to fight him the same way. Foreman tried to cut off the ring against me and couldn’t. That’s when I knew that I had him.”
ME: “At the time you battled Foreman, aged 44, you were facing the hardest puncher in boxing history. Foreman has admitted to being afraid against certain opponents, Frazier and Norton (both of whom he knocked out within 2 rounds). Did you feel fear confronting Foreman?”
MORRISON: “I had no fear. I knew that I was facing a legend and I respected that…Foreman’s a tough guy but I boxed his socks off.”
ME: “Could you describe what it feels like to be hit by the hardest puncher in boxing history?”
MORRISON: “People ask me that question all the time. I probably get asked that question more than any other. What’s it like to be hit by Foreman? Well, my goal was to not find out and not get hit. (We both laugh) “He was not the hardest hitter that I faced. His punches are slow and you can see them coming. It’s hard to explain, but in the ring, I see his punches like slow motion. Because I see it coming, it gives me the opportunity to brace myself, so that’s what I did as it lessens the impact. Speed generates power and he had no speed.”
ME: “I won’t call Foreman a cheat, but he landed several low blows. He was warned repeatedly and was eventually penalized with a 10th round point deduction. An 8th round low blow caused the bout to be temporarily halted so that you could recover.”
MORRISON: “Foreman did land low blows but I don’t hold that against him. That’s boxing and he’s a boxer. They say that Foreman’s a Minister and shit, but when he steps into that ring he’s a fighter like anyone else. They act like he’s purer or something like that than the rest of us. Foreman’s there to fight and to hurt someone like anyone else. I understand that. Shit, it’s boxing.”
ME: “Did the low blows affect your strategy or your ability to win the bout?”
MORRISON: “No, but it affected my sex life for about a week. (we both laugh) “That’s about it. Foreman became desperate as he knew that he was losing. So that’s what that was about.”
ME: “You had never gone to the 10th round in a professional bout. How did you feel as you stepped out for rounds 10, 11, 12?”
MORRISON: “I’ll tell you about the 12th round. I knew that I had Foreman beat and that there was no way he could win. I could have coasted, but that wouldn’t have been me. Things got a little hairy. I may have a felt a little overwhelmed. But I hung in there and whipped his ass. This was a legend, and beating a legend was a good feeling. I felt proud.”
ME: “Foreman displayed good sportsmanship after the expected results announced his defeat. He approached you and said something. I know you must have been excited, but do you remember his congratulatory words?”
MORRISON: “He told me that I was the next Great White Hope. (laughs) “Foreman told me to keep my nose to the grindstone. Keep to good habits. He basically told me not to blow this opportunity.”
In the midst of the most exciting moment of his professional career, these Foreman words, from someone who was once deemed invincible until Muhammad Ali & Rope-A-Dope, proved sadly prophetic. Four months following the bout, a 1st round Morrison knockout loss at the hands of Michael Bentt derailed an $8-million payday with Lennox Lewis. Meanwhile, Foreman would go on to shock the world with a 10th round compact right to the chin of 28-year-old Michael Moorer to reclaim the Heavyweight Championship on November 5, 1994.
ME: “You have no natural rival like most pugilists. So Foreman continues to stand out. When was the last time that you saw him?”
MORRISON: “We hooked up at a fight and benefit about a year ago for charity. We exchanged words. He was cordial. We are not buddies or anything like that.”
ME: “Foreman is an openly religious person. Do you consider yourself spiritual?”
MORRISON: “I’m a spiritual person. I go to church regularly. I guess that I made a decision, oh, maybe 11 years ago, back when I was in trouble to turn things around. I was in prison, in solitary confinement, so I did some thinking while I was there and decided to change.”
As requested by Morrison, I have read published papers and listened to lectures by French scientist, Luc Antoine Montagnier. The gist of Montagnier’s verbal jabs, aimed at wealthy charitable foundations, particularly Bill Gates, is that America is spreading the HIV virus in Africa by its insistence that ‘science’ is about raising and spending money on expensive drugs. Montagnier is insistent that the dominant American philosophy is neither science nor even helpful: Hygiene measures and water are important. Clean water is key… It is not always necessary to spend and raise money as so many seem to think… People are overly preoccupied with drugs and vaccines… There are many ways to decrease transmission. Just by the simple measures of nutrition, giving anti-oxidants, proper anti-oxidants… We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system. Tommy Morrison tested HIV-positive in 1996 and disputes those results today.
ME: “Why do so many people not believe your initial HIV-positive test result was inaccurate?”
MORRISON: “Because I didn’t run to Las Vegas and take the test again when they wanted. Fuck Vegas! There’s a lot of politics going on, and that’s what people don’t understand. Yeah, I could take the HIV test again, and it will come out negative, but why should I jump because Vegas tells me to jump?”
ME: “Do you take any sort of HIV medication today?”
MORRISON: “No, no, no. I took that AZT shit when I was in prison. All it did was make me sick. I was throwing up all the time. I had diarrhea so I was going to the can and up and down all night long.”
ME: “You felt the medication was only making you sicker?”
MORRISON: “It does. That is some nasty shit. I never felt sick until I started taking that shit.”
ME: “What is your current weight?”
MORRISON: “Right now I weigh 222 pounds.”
ME: “That was your prime fighting weight.”
MORRISON: “That’s right. And I feel healthy and I’m in great shape.”
ME: “What did you want to tell me about HIV and false-positive results?”
MORRISON: “That it happens all the time. I am in a documentary called House of Numbers and that’s what it is all about. Many people have been falsely diagnosed as positive.”
ME: “What else did you want people to know about HIV based on your perspective?”
MORRISON: “That it’s all a goddamned conspiracy and lie. HIV has never killed anybody, and that’s what people need to know. You can be exposed 100,000 times to HIV and not be infected.”
ME: “Why did you believe that the initial HIV-positive diagnosis was accurate?”
MORRISON: “Well, it is no secret. I’ve told lots of people. It’s because of needles. I’ve admitted before that I used them to inject steroids.”
ME: “If a boxer were to be diagnosed as HIV-positive, should they be banned from fighting professionally?”
MORRISON:
“No, I don’t think an HIV-positive boxer should be banned from the ring. All you are doing is being exposed to anti-bodies. Nobody is going to die because they are exposed to antibodies. We are all exposed to HIV every day only nobody knows it because they don’t become ill. Scientific research is primitive and still in its infancy. Truth and scientific facts are what the public deserves and I’m not sure they are always getting the truth.”
ME: “So I could have been HIV-positive or the person reading this, but we never knew it because our bodies cured it without our feeling ill?”
MORRISON: “Yes. That’s what I am saying.”
ME: “I only want to clarify. So your refusal to take another test is because you believe Las Vegas has treated you unfairly or because you do not believe in the scientific accuracy or the American scientific interpretation of blood results?”
MORRISON: “I’ll take another test. I just won’t do it for Vegas. They lost the results of the last one; the one that supposedly condemns me. I have asked to see the results and they won’t show them to me. I’ll take another test and it will come out negative. I just won’t do it for them.”
Editor note: Following are the actual court documents and what happened to Tommy Morrison, when you read the truth of the matter it might change your mind about Tommy having AIDS!
UNDISPUTED TIMELINE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN REJECTED BY THE DISTRICT COURT OF NEVADA:This Official TIMELINE is being provided to you and placing you ON NOTICE of the FACTSsurrounding TOMMY MORRISON and the lawsuit against Defendants Quest Diagnostics, John Hiatt,Marc Ratner, Dr.Margaret Goodman and the Nevada State Athletic Commission
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Vague bait and switch stories are a way to profit off X tragedy and will not be supported by the MORRISON family. Any media outlet that decides to print or display on other forms of social media information contrary to the below facts is blackening the memory of a dead person namely TOMMY MORRISON, with malice. Articles producing misleading, hearsay, discriminatory information on TOMMY, his widow, or any family member, should be removed or updated with the following Official Timeline. Please have your legal department provide me with a link on what you have placed, or will be placing on social media regarding my husband Tommy Morrison, before Thursday December 17th, 2020.
2011:Dr.George Schuchmann II, a surgeon at Ft. Sanders Hospital, Knoxville, TN, left 12 feet of undocumented surgical gauze in TOMMY’s chest for over 1 week to rot inside TOMMY’s chest. Surgery was performed on TOMMY’s chest because he came out of jail in October 2011 with an insect bite on the right side of his chest. The insect bite was either from a brown recluse or tick.The evening of December 08th, 2011, after the gauze was discovered and pulled out, TOMMY’s right leg gave way, and he fell headfirst into a wall and landed on his neck. This was the beginning of 21 months of hell. TOMMY was in and out of septic shock.
2012:BOSTON MASS.GENERAL HOSPITAL’S EXTENSIVE ANTEMORTEM EXAMINATION
confirmed: “NO VIRAL INCLUSIONS, FUNGI OR BACTERIAL FORMS ARE IDENTIFIED.” July 31, 2012Court Document: Dkt#324.p.3.12
2012 and 2013:TOMMY were tested for ALL AIDS-defining diseases and TOMMY’s
NEGATIVE results ruled out AIDS.Court Document: Dkt#324.p.3.12
2013:On September 01, 2013 at 11.50pm TOMMY died of cardiac arrest, septic shock, septicemia caused by the infected gauze, and multi-organ failure after being placed in a medically induced coma 24 hours prior.Upon request by TOMMYS widow on September 01 2013 @ 11.511.50pm U.N.M.C’S an
EXTENSIVE POSTMORTEM BLOOD AUTOPSY was performed and
confirmed: “FINAL DIAGNOSIS: No viral particles seen. No retroviral inclusions. No retroviral budding present.” NO HIV. Pathology Report Sep.17.2013. (retrovirus is the scientific term for the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ).
Between 2013 and 2016:
Documents already filed and on the record in the Court of Law from Dr Guenther; Dr Hinrich; Dr Smith; Dr Voy; Dr Soloway; Dr Moses PhD; and Dr Osio in the form of either Affidavits or Authenticated Pathology Reports, all confirm no scientific evidence of HIV, no scientific evidence of AIDS, no clinical symptoms of HIV, and no AIDS diseases in TOMMY.
In 2014:The Western blot Test, allegedly used and noted on the Defendants’ 1996 “lab report” produced for the very first time ever, was discontinued by the CDC as a confirmatory test for HIV. The Exhibit produced by Defendants violated 21 CFR Part 11 and 21 CFR Part 211 as it was not authenticated with any signature from a 1996 pathologist “signing out” the document.The name of the ordering physician on the Defendants’ “1996 lab report” was also proven in court to have been falsified by the Defendants.
In 2014:Defendants revealed in Court Documents that the “medical suspension” imposed on TOMMY on February 10, 1996 that immediately, indefinitely, worldwide suspended TOMMY from his career, and made his life spiral into turmoil, was SECRETLY LIFTED 10 years later in July 2006 by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
In 2015:Former FBI Special Agent, now head of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, ROBERT BENNETT, swore Under Oath on behalf of Defendants NSAC for the first time since 1996 that TOMMY was “not indefinitely suspended on February 10, 1996”. COURT DOCUMENT: Dkt#140 p.7.19-20.
In 2015:Former FBI Special Agent, now head of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, ROBERT BENNETT, swore Under Oath on behalf of Defendants NSAC for the first time since 1996 that no documents existed of any clinical symptoms nor of any HIV infection in TOMMY. COURT DOCUMENT: RFP#8. Dec.01.2015.
In 2015:It was proven in court that Defendant Dr Margaret Goodman’s public and worldwide claim in 2007 was false, fraudulent, malicious and made with the intent to ruin TOMMY’s comeback. Defendant Goodman’s claim was that Dr HIatt was a physician and renowned pathologist and had reviewed and diagnosed TOMMY with HIV in 1996.” DR.HIATT” was never a licensed physician, never a board-certified pathologist – not even a renowned pathologist, and HIATT had never reviewed TOMMY’s 1996 results and never had diagnosed TOMMY with anything in 1996 nor even at any time during TOMMY’s lifetime. COURT DOCUMENTS: HIATT’s responses and objections to Plaintiff’s Requests for Production. RFP#53; RFP#43; RFP#18.
In 2015:Defendants further unleashed fraudulently concealed information for the first time ever that their clinical laboratory reports are now not a diagnosis of HIV, rendering the “document dump” of their “lab reports” in this case as mute.COURT DOCUMENT: Request for Interrogatory #12p.10:20-23. Nov.18th,2015 signed under Oath by Elizabeth Iole for Defendants QUEST. Elizabeth IOLE is married to KEVIN IOLE who broke the “news” of a “diagnosis of HIV” to the worldwide media in Las Vegas, Nevada February 10th, 1996 before TOMMY was even told. Kevin Iole refuses to report on this case.
In 2015:Defendants confessed for the first time ever that their tests do not test for the HIV VIRUS. COURT DOCUMENT: Request for Interrogatory No.#15 p.15:24-26. Nov.18th,2015.
In 2016:Defendants, despite having allegedly received TOMMY’S blood and was tested by QUEST Diagnostics using their “CDC algorithm/recommendation”, to determine for the co-defendants whether TOMMY had the “HIV” Human Immunodeficiency Virus- confessed for the very first time in 20 years: “neither the State Defendants nor Quest Diagnostics ever diagnosed Mr Morrison as carrying the HIV Virus”. COURT DOCUMENT: Dkt#174 p.7.2-4.
In 2016:Defendants now confess to knowing that the MMWR produced by the CDC cites: “Information from a laboratory-initiated report of a CD4+ T lymphocyte count is INSUFFICIENT for reporting a case of AIDS.” COURT DOCUMENT: Dkt#175-11. Defendants for over 20 years, and in court prior to their confession, used their “laboratory-initiated CD4+ reports” as a case of AIDS.
In 2016:Federal Judge Richard F.Boulware II ruled from the Bench on September 08th 2016: “We wouldn’t even be having this discussion if the test was specific for the existence of the virus or not. That’s obviously why there’s even the possibility of a claim. The tests didn’t test for the virus.”COURT DOCUMENT: Transcript Hearing September 08th, 2016.
In 2018
Dr M.Owen, Assistant Director of Laboratory Services in Atlanta, NCHHSTP, (and colleague of Defendants’ Expert Witness “Branson”) confirmed the following information that had been fraudulently withheld from the Court, TOMMY, family, fans, and Estate:*viral load tests are not actually approved for screening and making a diagnosis.*In 1996 there was not a CD4 test kit.*It is possible to have very low CD4 counts caused by other diseases such as cancer, other infectious diseases, genetic disorders, ETC.
In 2020:Defendants were caught using false, non-existent Statutes against TOMMY from February 10, 1996, to his death, and again using the same false, fraudulent, misleading, reckless misuse of statutes that had never been approved by the Legislator in 1996 throughout the entire MORRISON case in Federal and Appellate Courts and in the U.S.Supreme Court.NRS. 469.1005 did not exist at all.NRS. 467.100(2) did not exist until 1999NRS.467.1005 did not exist until 1999NRS. 467.100(3) did not exist until 2003NAC.467.027(3) did not exist until 1997NAC.467.027(3b) did not exist until 1997
In 2020:Defendants withheld hundreds of pages of medical records exonerating TOMMY from HIV and AIDS, including TOMMY’s postmortem pathology report from their own Expert Witness that would have made a difference to their own Expert Witness’ report filed under penalty of perjury.
From 1996 to 2020:Defendants have not brought forward any credible eyewitness, nor any physical or scientific evidence that demonstrates anyone had actually scientifically ruled out a “differential diagnosis” by testing TOMMY for over one hundred other ailments that cause #false #positive results.MORRISON’s evidence on the record establishes UNMC, one of the very best infectious disease facilities in the nation, did testing for other conditions that can react in a #false #positive reaction to QUEST’s testing. It was scientifically established that TOMMY had many ailments, non-contagious, that would render a #false #positive reaction to Defendants’ testing.
From 1996 to 2020:Defendants’ intentional delay, until confessing in 2016, that:* their tests used did not diagnose TOMMY with HIV;*that the statutes used against TOMMY did not exist in 1996; were a deliberate device to gain an advantage over TOMMY from 1996 to 2013, and also over TOMMY’s Widow, a pro se litigant for the Estate of Tommy Morrison, from 2013 to 2020, causing prejudice in presenting TOMMY’s case.
In August 2020:MORRISON filed a Motion with the Federal Court in Las Vegas, Nevada. Motion for DNA/HIV Testing on Newly Discovered, Preserved, Tissue belonging to Tommy Morrison. Defendants are attempting to block this testing by asking the Court to silence MORRISON and fine her and label her as a vexatious litigant.
In October 2020:Magistrate Judge Weksler filed MORRISON’S EXHIBIT ‘X” with the Court in Las Vegas, Nevada, that proves the existence and whereabouts of the newly discovered, preserved tissue belonging to TOMMY.
Current situation:
The motion for DNA/HIV testing on TOMMY’s tissue is still pending. Some Media continue to spin their stories to profit off TOMMY’s obviously planned demise. Other more notable social media channels are now acknowledging that the “story” spun by ESPN was to actively capitalize on the tragedy surrounding TOMMY’s career and life in order to impress and obtain ESPN+ rights to streaming fights in Nevada replacing HBO, and assisting Defendants with their defense in the MORRISON lawsuit. The truth is that the mainstream media has no insight into either TOMMY or TOMMY’s family’s personal lives so they just make up whatever story they think will sell.
If you read through all of these court documents you know that none of this adds up!
Ok now back to Christopher Shelton’s interview with Tommy Morrison!
I request spontaneous reflection on some of the professional pugilists that Morrison has fought.
ME: “James ‘Quick’ Tillis” (W – KO1 – 1991)
MORRISON: “That was still early in my career. I was up and coming. That was a scary fight for me. I knew that I was up against someone that could make me look silly in the ring. Fortunately, I caught him early with a punch and he never recovered.”
ME: “Pinklon Thomas.” (W – retired after 1 round – 1991)
MORRISON: “They all got in shape to fight me and this was a good example. Thomas came to fight me, because if he wins, that’s a big deal for him. Timing is everything in boxing. You have to suck up to the right promoter. That was his big chance to beat me, but I got to him instead.”
ME: “Yuri Vaulin.” (W – TKO5 – 1991)
MORRISON: “He was a helluva fighter. He’s a southpaw and I’m not used to fighting southpaws, though I have never lost to one. He was a better fighter than most people think. The winner was supposed to fight for the title against either Foreman or Holyfield. But it didn’t work out. I couldn’t take him out like I wanted. That was a tough fight.”
ME: “Ray Mercer.” (L – TKO5 – 1991)
MORRISON: “Oh Lord! (semi laugh) “My trainer took the blame for that one. He told me that I would take this guy out easily in 3 rounds and that’s what I trained for. If you watch the fight, I dominated Mercer for the first 4 rounds. I owned him. But by the end of the 4th round, I had shot my wad and there was nothing left. My trainer lost that one for me.”
ME: “Joe Hipp.” (W – TKO9 – 1992)
MORRISON: “Joe is a good guy and I like him. He is a tough guy with a lot of heart. My hand speed was just too much for him. But I broke my hands early on, and then he broke my jaw, or I would have taken him out earlier than I did. That was a good fight. It was a great spectator show. Joe may have been a puffed up pretender, but he gave it a great effort.”
ME: “Carl ‘The Truth’ Williams.” (W – TKO8 – 1993)
MORRISON: “Williams came to that fight in shape. They all came in top shape against me. It was important to their careers, better fights, better money if they could beat me.”
ME: “It was an exciting bout with mutual knockdowns.”
MORRISON: “It was a great fight. If you look at the history of heavyweight boxing it is the smaller guys who dominate and win Championships. It is because they have better leverage and hand speed. I enjoyed fighting the tall guys and Williams was a tall one. I just overpowered him that was all. He was a good fighter, but I was better.”
ME: “Michael Bentt.” (L – TKO1 – 1993)
MORRISON: (laughs) “I think if I fought him 100 times, I would beat him 100 times. That’s how much of a better fighter I am compared to him. Unfortunately, I walked into a punch and he put me down. I tried to get up and fight him – that may have been a mistake – and by the 3rd time that he put me down it was over.”
ME: “I gather that you wished you had been a bit more defensive after that 1st knockdown rather than step in front of him and continue fighting?”
MORRISON:
“It’s a humbling experience. I was humbled by that fight. There was a huge crowd in Tulsa to come to see me fight and I let them down. I learned from that fight. I hadn’t been exposed to being hurt. I wasn’t used to it. Now, I know better. I only lost 3 times in my career and those are the ones where I learned the most… Shit happens… Those losses helped me to grow.”
ME: “Brian Scott.” (W – TKO2 – 1994)
MORRISON: “Brian was not a bad fighter. He was confused a little in the ring. I had probably sparred with Brian a couple of hundred times so we knew each other well. But he was scared, a bit frightened. I could see the fear in his eyes. I made up my mind that I was going to beat him, but not hurt him. I didn’t want to hurt him. Brian’s a good guy. But you can’t show fear in the ring and he showed fear.”
ME: “Ross Purrity.” (Draw – 10 rounds – 1994)
MORRISON:
(An unhappy, disgusted audible sigh) “It was not a good night. You know, you can’t be flawless every time. There were a couple of fights – and only a couple fights –when I just wasn’t on my game and that was one of them.”
ME: “What was the other disappointing bout?”
MORRISON: “The other disappointing fight was against Lorenzo Canady. This was early in my career, in ’89. That was a 6th round decision and so disappointing. (Sylvester) Stallone and the film crew were there to see me knock this guy out. They were going to film the actual fight and then incorporate it into the movie (Rocky V). But it just wasn’t my night. I let everybody down. I felt so bad. I wanted to knock him out and couldn’t.”
ME: “Razor Ruddock.” (W – TKO6 – 1995)
MORRISON: “I had wanted that fight for a while. I wanted to give the good folks of Kansas City a legitimate celebration. I like offensive guys like me, guys who will stand there and fight.”
ME: “You both knocked each other down. There is plenty of offense for the YouTube crowd.”
MORRISON: “That’s right. It was a fantastic spectator fight for the people of Kansas City and that’s what I wanted. They deserved a great fight and that’s what they received. Ruddock was willing to fight me and I give him credit for that.”
ME: “Lennox Lewis.” (L – TKO6 – 1995)
MORRISON: “I wasn’t that impressed by Lewis. I thought that I would take him out in 3 rounds. Unfortunately, I took a punch to the right eye in the 1st round. I tried to avoid getting hit in the 2nd round. By the 3rd round, the eye was completely shut, and that’s what happened there. I was a sitting duck and he slowly picked me off.”
ME: “Lewis does not always train the same for every bout. He was prepared against you.”
MORRISON: “That’s what I am talking about and what I said earlier. They all prepared for me as if it was a Championship fight. It was a chance to take out the Cracker.” (slang: ‘White’ guy)
ME: “How do you set up for your famous left hook inside the ring?”
MORRISON: “I’m always willing to throw the left hook. I will give someone the uppercut, then counter with the hook. I need about 5 inches, and that’s all. Otherwise, I will go to the body a lot. These other fighters won’t go to the body. But I train for that left hook the same way that I train for anything. I work out hard when I train. A lot of other boxers won’t push themselves the way that I do. You’ve gotta want to push your body harder every day. I train hard. That’s what I do.”
ME: “Mark McGwire, the baseball star, recently admitted that he used steroids during the 1990′s. You have admitted your own usage. How common was steroid usage amongst Heavyweights during the 1990′s?”
MORRISON:
“My opinion and this is just my opinion, is that everybody was doing it. But I can’t prove that.”
ME: “We know that baseball players and track & field athletes commonly used steroids. It does not seem unreasonable to suspect that steroids was prevalent in boxing as well?”
MORRISON: “Absolutely, that’s right. People pay money to see us fight. That’s what we do. Some people stand on their morals. They act like they’re better than us or something. But they paid their money to see us fight. They didn’t care about steroids then. It is not just the athlete that has to take responsibility. Everybody was a part of it.”
ME: “I know that your childhood was dysfunctional and difficult. Rather than dwell on the negative I would prefer something positive. I understand that your grandfather was a religious person and an important role model in your youth. Could you tell me something about him?”
MORRISON: “The last 5 generations of Morrison men were all fighters. The women were nurses. My grandfather was undefeated as a pro — 31 and 0 — and was set to fight Henry Armstrong. But he quit and became a preacher instead. I guess that he was my spiritual adviser. Someone that I respected. (pause – upset and emotional) “I didn’t come from the greatest family, you know? My family was a mess. I just didn’t want to be near home and so I stayed away. (pause, calms himself) “Both my grandfather and grandmother were wonderful people and I was lucky to have them.”
ME: “Could you tell me something about your scholastic life?”
MORRISON: “I was an honor student. I liked school. I enjoyed science and biology… But I was also a good athlete. I could really kick a football. I even thought I might be a professional punter. But they made at the time, oh, maybe $200,000 a year, and I felt that I could make more with boxing. It worked out in the end.”
ME: “You wanted me to ask about illegal drugs. What did you want to say?”
MORRISON:
“Just that I am very anti-street drugs. I used to do (crystal) meth, and I have been through that stuff. There was a dark side to my life. I wasn’t going anywhere. People were wondering if I would ever get my act together.”
ME:
“What made you stop crystal meth or other drugs?”
MORRISON: “It was prison. I had to go away and think about my life and all that I had been through. I had felt for a while that God was tugging on my arm. But I kept running away. God finally put me in a place where I could not run.”
ME: “So you are saying that spirituality cleansed you of illegal street drug usage?”
MORRISON: “That’s what did it for me. I thought that maybe God wanted me to talk about it. It’s a helluva story – my life – a real roller coaster ride. I thought that by telling the truth of that story, the bad with the good, it might ultimately do someone else some good.”
ME: “The theme of your website is redemption. That it is okay to get knocked down in life as long as you stand again. Is there something else that you would like people to know?”
MORRISON: “Just that I have a retreat, “The Tommy Morrison Foundation,” which allows kids with cancer two weeks at camp to enjoy themselves and forget about their problems. They can go swimming and hiking and fishing and be a kid again, rather than dealing with shit.”
ME: “A cancer diagnosis from a doctor must sound similar to an HIV-positive diagnosis. You have admitted that you handled your own 1996 diagnosis poorly, sort of surrendered in life and eventually wound up in prison. What would you say to a young person that receives a cancer diagnosis so that they do not repeat your mistake?”
MORRISON: “I would tell them, ‘Forget about it. Live your life!’ I think some of these parents almost want their kids to die and get it over with. It’s a difficult situation for the parents, too, and maybe the kids get put on the back burner as a result.”
ME: “So you are saying that kids with a cancer diagnosis almost have to take care of themselves?”
MORRISON: “You are damned right! These kids have to learn not to give up on themselves. Don’t just die because someone says you are going to die. Work on your mind and your physical body. Lots of these kids heal themselves, both physically and mentally, by believing in themselves and not someone else.”
ME: “I know that you will attend the camp and meet the kids. How will you work with them?”
MORRISON: “I will show them basic exercises; nothing too stressful. I just want to show them how to work the mind and body. Mostly, I’ll tell these kids – some of whom are told they only have 6 months to live – ‘Forget about it. Be a kid again and enjoy yourself’.”
Back to present day, I know it’s great to read books that expose all of the dirty details of a famous person like Tommy Morrison’s life and Carlos Acevedo wrote one of these tell all books. He claims Tommy died of aids but he gives no factual evidence. Why would you leave out the autopsy report that showed that he did not have Aids?
This is what the actual autopsy reported.TOMMY died September
01, 2013, his September 17, 2013 postmortem pathology report “Final Diagnosis” lists: “No viral particles
seen. No viral particles were found. No retroviral
budding is present. No Retroviral inclusions pre-sent. No viral particles were seen.”
Why is more proof needed that Tommy did not have Aids than this?
Also remember that Quest diagnostics did the testing. Why is that so interesting?
Quest Diagnostic’s Testing On TOMMY Was Not
Regulated By The FDA And Was Not The Standard Of Care For HIV Testing In 1996.
QUEST admit its tests do not detect the retrovirus HIV and no retrovirus has been found in TOMMY.(Retrovirus is the scientific term for the HIV virus.)
Once again these quotes are all from court documents.
How Tommy Morrison died
TOMMY died September 01, 2013 after fighting 21months of septic shock, septicemia, heart issues, and a
botched surgery where 12 feet of tightly packed surgical gauze was “mistakenly” left in his chest for 8 days
to rot following a surgery on December 01, 2011. TOMMY’S blood was drawn and at Petitioner’s request blood autopsy was performed. On September 17,
2013 P. Smith, MD, head of the Infectious Disease Department at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre, (“UNMC”), called Petitioner to inform her of the
results – Final Diagnosis – negative for HIV.
Tommy died from septic shock because 12 feet of gauze was left in his body after surgery for 8 days! Does that sound like a normal mistake that a doctor would make? No, and it really makes you question the Tommy had Aids bull shit that has been pushed down our throats by mainstream media. Did they leave the gauze in on accident? Or did they just need to shut Tommy up? The answer seems clear when you look at the court records.
Tommy Morrison was a flawed man, just like every one of us. But he was a man that loved his fans and always gave it everything he had. Tommy was a skilled Heavyweight and a fun-loving man and it’s about time his name was cleared. It’s also about time that this was investigated honestly and all of the people that caused this be brought to justice.
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