Former Light Heavyweight And Cruiserweight Champ Bobby Czyz Battling Brain Cancer

In horrible information, it has been reported that former two-weight world champion Bobby Czyz has been recognized with mind most cancers. The 62-year-old, who fought the likes of Robbie Sims, Mustafa Hamsho, Slobodan Kacar, “Prince” Charles Williams, Dennis Andries, Virgil Hill, Robert Daniels, Donny Lalonde, and Evander Holyfield, was recognized a short time again.

At the moment, there’s a charity arrange the place followers can ship in cash to assist Czyz, who actually was one of the thrilling ring warriors of his time. Venmo @LiBoxingCharities or Money App @$LilboxingCharities is the place individuals who want to assist Bobby can accomplish that.

Czyz, who loved an extended and well-respected profession as a commentator for Showtime after hanging up his gloves (Czyz referred to as, amongst different bouts, the notorious ‘Chunk Combat’ between Holyfield and Tyson), virtually misplaced his life in an April 2007 automobile crash, the stricken former fighter inhaling smoke within the fiery wreck. Fortunately, Bobby pulled by way of, but now, sadly and unfairly, he’s preventing a far harder opponent.

Czyz, often known as “The Matinee Idol” and “Chappie” throughout his preventing profession, is a really clever particular person, with him being a member of Mensa, the place individuals who get in accomplish that by scoring within the highest 2% of takers in an IQ take a look at. Massively widespread in his preventing days, Czyz fell on exhausting occasions financially after being let go by Showtime because of a DUI incident. Bobby needed to work as a bagger in a grocery retailer.

Certainly, with all of the highs and lows he has encountered throughout his fairly superb life, the Bobby Czyz story actually is the stuff a film maker may decide up on, ought to decide up on. Hopefully, Czyz, a harder hombre of the best order, each within the ring and out of it, can beat the percentages another time and defeat the most cancers he’s at present battling.

Life isn’t honest, and Bobby Czyz deserves a much better hand than the one he has been dealt.

Czyz was the IBF gentle heavyweight champion from September of 1986 to October of 1987, and he was the WBA cruiserweight champion from March of 1991 to Could of 1992. His ultimate ring file reads 44-8(28).