Being from the Midwest, I’ve heard story after story about Tommy Morrison.  The fights in Kansas City area bars, sexing up multiple women every night, the drugs and the dumb ass ‘I’m the Champ’ attitude he displayed to everyone he met.  There was a time in the late ’80s and early ’90s when ‘the great white hype’ was extremely popular.  My high school girlfriend’s mom actually had a huge poster of Morrison sitting in her room.  Not my girlfriend, mind you, her mom.  A little creepy, but okay.

Today, Morrison is the shadow of the man he once was – both physically and mentally.  Once on top of the world, he’s no longer allowed to fight in the ring due to the HIV he contracted years ago during one of his many love fests.  He still trains, however, hoping to get one more chance at a championship.  And every couple of years, someone does an interview with him just to hear the crazy sh*t that comes out of his mouth.

This time around, Morrison claims that HIV doesn’t exist.  No, he’s not talking about his HIV like it doesn’t exist, as if it were miraculously cured by self-actualization or some wonder drug.  He’s talking about HIV in general.  Oh, and teleportation.  Confused yet?  The Kansas City Star’s Sam Mellinger explains:

Tommy wants to talk to you about HIV. It’s a farce, he says. An invention by a scientist who wanted to make money, a lie kept alive by a government that wants to scare people. He doesn’t have HIV, never did, and besides, it’s not the deadly disease it’s been made out to be.

What he says sounds crazy, but there is an obvious and undeniable fact sitting in front of you: Tommy Morrison is still alive and apparently healthy, 15 years after testing positive for HIV. Magic Johnson tested positive five years before Tommy, but Johnson has wealth and the very best medical care.

He speaks with such certainty, such conviction, and even has a negative HIV test from last year to show you. That test has been disputed. It could be someone else’s blood, and his name is on failed tests, too. Still, it’s hard not to wonder enough to call a doctor.

Joel Gallant is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and one of the leading HIV specialists in the country. He says there are slow progressers, people who do fine without treatment, so Tommy’s apparent health “doesn’t tell you much one way or the other,” and that “he’s not cured; that’s not one of the possibilities.”

Regardless of the good doctors words, Morrison takes it a completely different way.  There seems to be some odd filter in his mind that turns logical, straightforward information into crazy.

“You have just confirmed to me that there does not exist a test that confirms or dispels whether I or anyone has the HIV VIRUS 100%,” he writes to Gallant.

It’s interesting to note that Morrison has a steady girlfriend with whom he practices unprotected sex.  Well, there’s something to be said for sticking to you’re convictions.  I just don’t know what in this case.

Morrison is ready to fight, or so he says.  He’ll never get the chance.  But in his mind, he’s almost as healthy as he was at 24 when he won the WBO Heavyweight title.

“I think about boxing more now. I’m better,” he says. “They’re not used to that. A white guy that has hand speed, power, charisma, and can talk in complete sentences? (Shoot). Sounds like a gold mine to me.”

He also claims he once teleported out of an area bar.  Pretty cool, if you ask me, but I doubt that statement is going to help him much with the boxing commission.  I wonder what Morrison will have to say in another couple of years.  He hasn’t yet played the ‘abducted by aliens’ card.

[Photo Source: KC Star]

The late Lorenzen Wright’s ex-wife, Sherra Robinson Wright, claims that he left her house on the night he was murdered with a box of drugs and a large sum of cash money, according to a statement she made to the Memphis Police, after he went missing but before he was found murdered.

Sherra Wright told detectives her ex had a conversation on “a ‘tracfone’ or similar cellular telephone” with an unidentified person before he left with the drugs and money. She also told police he owned an iPhone and made calls from both cells while at her house.

Sherra contends that she heard Lorenzen talking on the phone about flipping something for $110,000.  He then left the house in a car, driven by another man, an unidentified man that no one has claimed to know so far.

Wright was next heard from on a 911 call where multiple gunshots were heard along with an expletive.  Police have not released what expletive was said or by whom.  Wright’s body was found by police several days later, decomposed, with multiple gunshot wounds.

Many Memphians are pointing the finger at Sherra for Wright’s death.  Some claim she wanted his life insurance money.  Others contend that she is hooked on crack, Lorenzen had beaten up her boyfriend after he wrecked one of his cars, and that the boyfriend killed or had Lorenzen killed.  It also could have been Sherra’s rage and jealousy of seeing photos of Lorenzen with his girlfriend or new women since the divorce.

Sherra has refused to talk to police since his body was found in a wooded field.  Police executed a search warrant on her home after Wright’s death.  They seized two items:  a letter to Lorenzen and Sherra, and a piece of burned metal.

Sherra’s criminal defense attorney, Coleman Garrett, has advised her to not talk to police. He has stated that his client has nothing to add or gain by talking to investigators.

Police are taking their time putting the pieces to this tragic puzzle together.  Lorenzen’s murder will be solved. People talk, criminals get sloppy and loose lipped, and the truth eventually will be made known.

However, it doesn’t change the fact that his death was premature and tragic.

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Andre Agassi retired several years ago as one of the greatest tennis players and personalities of all-time. He and since then has been adored almost unanimously in the sports world…until this week.

On Tuesday we first learned via a Twitter Tweet that Agassi, according to his autobiography ‘Open,’ that he used the toxic and dangerous drug, crystal meth, back in 1997.  He even failed an ATP drug test and proceeded to lie to the ATP in a letter he sent them claiming that he accidently took it via a soda his buddy left open.

Bumpshack is now reporting that Agassi goes on to reveal in his auto-bio that he wore fake hair, yes a toupee, at least during some point of his pre-Mr. Clean days.

Sometimes its best to just keep your mouth shut and typewriter locked away in the closet.  Maybe Andre feels better for letting this off his chest but it just sullies his reputation in the tennis world and in general.  Come on, I mean crystal meth?  Did someone not tell Andre he was beyond rich and could afford cocaine?

There is not a more damning and damaging drug than crystal meth.  Google ‘crystal meth’ some time and look at the image results. It is a human transformer and a cheap and deadly dangerous drug.