I'm sat here watching UFC 125 and currently it's Gomi v Guida, I'll admit I don't follow UFC that much and only watch it when no boxing is on. Now the interesting character here, for me, is Guida, he's reminding me of two fighters, firstly his none stop movement seems a little bit like the dancing of a guy like Emmanuel Augustus, the hugely popular journeyman who's antics set the boxing world into fits of laughter. Though more sadly Guida, with his scruffy long hair, tattooed body and wild, wide punching reminds me of a man very much missed by the boxing world. Edwin Valero.
Edwin is a guy I've pretty much chosen not to write about since his untimely passing and the mess he had made for himself before then. It seemed obvious he had problems, his marriage seemed, in the months leading up to him killing his wife and himself, as though it was heading straight for tragedy. The reports were too numerous and too sporadic to all be rumours, someone needed to step in and sadly they didn't. Though for boxing fans it's nice to hear that his brother, Luis Valero 3-0 (3) is following in on Edwin's legacy with 1st round KO's coming to him. It'd be a nice ending to the Valero story if Luis' success can over shadow the circumstances behind Edwin's...downfall.
Edwin is a guy I've pretty much chosen not to write about since his untimely passing and the mess he had made for himself before then. It seemed obvious he had problems, his marriage seemed, in the months leading up to him killing his wife and himself, as though it was heading straight for tragedy. The reports were too numerous and too sporadic to all be rumours, someone needed to step in and sadly they didn't. Though for boxing fans it's nice to hear that his brother, Luis Valero 3-0 (3) is following in on Edwin's legacy with 1st round KO's coming to him. It'd be a nice ending to the Valero story if Luis' success can over shadow the circumstances behind Edwin's...downfall.
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