Category: Tributes to Boxers

Final Tribute: Hector Camacho – Story by Bernie McCoy

(NOV 27) At the end, Hector Camacho’s last fight was stopped. Not by a referee inside the ropes in a major boxing venue, where, during many “big fight” nights of the last two decades of the previous century, Camacho was a fixture, but by his family, surrounding his bed, in the Centro Medico trauma center in

Another Boxer Killed in Car Accident this Month

(JAN 12, 2009) Yesterday in Aliwal North, world featherweight boxing champion, Mdantsane-born Ludumo Galada, 26 years old, was killed in a car accident. Galada was driving a Toyota Tazz, and was traveling from Johannesburg when the accident took place. The local news sources said that as of now the details of the accident are sketchy

A Final Tribute for Junior Middleweight Champion Giselle Salandy

On Sunday morning shortly before 7:00 a.m., female multi-world Champion, Giselle Salandy, of Trinidad and Tobago, was involved in a fatality when she had a vehicular accident, crashing into a concrete pillar on Beetham Highway, located on the outskirts of Port of Spain. Salandy, just 21 years old, just two weeks short of turning 22, was rushed to the