KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -Trevor Berbick, who lost his heavyweight title to Mike Tyson and was the last boxer to fight Muhammad Ali, was found dead Saturday in a church courtyard in his hometown, police said. He was 52.
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10-29-06, 03:46 AM
DorianGreyed
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Former heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick was found dead in a church courtyard Saturday with chop wounds to his head in a suspected homicide.

Police have arrested a man and were interrogating him at the Port Antonio police station in Portland, Constable Sheldon Francis said. - Sport Illustrated
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It's hard to imagine someone beating a heavyweight boxer to death, regardless of the weapon and the boxer's age. I remember in the 1980s, two guys tried to mug former boxing legend Henry Armstrong in St. Louis. The one Armstrong KOed fingered the one who ran away. Armstrong, who never weighed more that about 145 pounds when he boxed, was in his 70s at the time. They didn't call him Hammering Hank for nothing. He was the only man to ever hold 3 different titles at the same time. First he won the Featherweight title (126 lbs), then the Welterweight (147 lbs), and finally the Lightweight title (135 lbs). A couple of years later, he fought Ceferino Garcia for the Middleweight crown. He had already defeated Garcia once, but this time, the fight was declared a draw.

The best description I can give to boxing fans who never saw Armstrong fight is to think of Roberto Duran, but a smiling Duran. Armstrong fought with the same, if not unbelievably more, intensity as Duran. Neither fighter ever stopped fighting until the bell, and both probably threw more punches per round than anyone I ever saw. They made guys like Frazier and Tyson seem like slackers.

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