When Vinny Pazienza shocked the boxing world by winning a fight after knocking deaths door
Vinny Pazienza, is a boxer who arguably has the greatest comeback story of all time. In the world of combat sports, it’s extremely hard to make a comeback after going through any kind of horrific accident, and in the past, it has ended several careers. However, Pazienza was just different from anybody else who shocked the fight community by not only coming back but winning championships.
Vinny Pazienza was one of the most popular boxers of the 80s and early 90s. However, in 1992, the fighter suffered a severe car accident that could have ended his life. Fortunately, he survived but suffered a dislocated vertebra and fractured vertebrae in his neck. After that incident, the doctors told Pazienza that he might not be able to walk, let alone box for the rest of his life. But Pazienza had some other plans and didn’t want to go down without putting up a fight.
In a viral video clip on the internet from one of the interviews, Paz can be heard telling his response to the doctor who told him that he can’t box. According to the legendary boxer, he told the doctor that he would box again and that nothing could stop him from doing that.
He said: “He said, son, I’m sorry to say you’re not gonna box again and I looked at him and I said no you’re wrong. I’m gonna box again. See you don’t understand what kind of a man I am.”
Paz’s comeback story is amazing as after all that hard work and enduring all that pain he was able to box again. He even got his hands on the world championship title in 1993.
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Vinny Pazienza training after the accident and how he made his boxing comeback
Pazienza’s comeback story is well known, but very few know the struggle the fighter had to go through in order to achieve what he did after the incident. Moreover, Pazienza had to wear a device called a Halo which was screwed to his skull in four places. In that condition, three months into his recovery he avoided warnings from doctors and resumed his gym training.
In an interview with Off the Ball, the boxer talked about how he felt excruciating pain during his first few training sessions but he never gave up. He said: “Only a couple of days later, I was down in my cellar trying to lift weights. A little crazy but very determined. When I first picked up the weight – two 25-pound weights. a flash went through my neck, down my body and I screamed and I dropped the weights. Then I had tears in my eyes.”
The story of Paz’s comeback even got made into a Hollywood movie named ‘Bleed for this’ which came out in 2016. In the movie, actor Miles Teller played Pazienza and did a great job justifying his role. The movie was a huge hit and it helped the boxer’s story to get more attention.
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