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DaytonBuck

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CHESTER, W.Va. - Tommy Morrison dropped to his knees and raised his gloves to the heavens last night. The former WBO heavyweight champ had just KO'd John Castle, a 35-year-old neophyte from Indianapolis, with a picture-perfect left hook before a sparse crowd of 2,500 at The Harv, a giant bubble that serves as an arena at the Mountaineer Race Track. For Morrison, whose last fight on American soil was a TKO loss to Lennox Lewis back in 1995, this victory, by knockiout halfway through the second round of a scheduled four-rounder, had a feeling of redemption.
Morrison (47-3-1, 41 KOs) was exiled from boxing in 1996 when he tested positive for HIV before a fight in Las Vegas. He was 26, at the peak of his professional career and had a lucrative fight looming with Mike Tyson. Stripped of his livelihood, Morrison sank into a deep depression and his life spiraled out of control with drug abuse, DUIs and a messy divorce. He spent 14 months in prison on weapons and drug possession charges from 2000 to 2001.
Now, Morrison is 38, proclaiming that medical tests have shown that he is free of HIV, and he wants to do what he couldn't 11 years ago - win a heavyweight championship.
"The last thing you lose as a heavyweight is your power," Morrison said after the fight. "For the first fight in 11 years, with a win under my belt, I'm pretty happy with my performance. The last 10 years of my life have been dark. I've been through some tough times."
With Morrison sharing a card with Buffalo heavyweight Joe Mesi, who was suspended from boxing for nearly two years because of bleeding on the brain, the entire night was controversial.
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I can't believe this fight got sanctioned. The bleeding brain guy is an idiot for going out there but letting Morrison fight is just foolish. :shake:
 
Well, it depends upon what you mean by "passing"

When somebody gets tested for HIV, they test for the antibodies, not the actual virus. To confirm it and to monitor treatment, they test his actual "HIV viral load"

Many poeple with HIV on treatment actually have "undetectable viral load." Of course, their antibodies will remain positive for life. And they need to stay on treatment.

Now, false positives can happen, but an initial positive HIV test is ALWAYS followed up automatically by the lab by a confirmatory test. In fact, the patient won't get the test result back until both tests have been run.

If Tommy Gun really had a false positive AIDS test, why did he wait 10 years? Plus, this would be a major medical scandal necessitating that scUM asshole Sanjay Gupta to appear on TV ad nauseum.
 
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scooter1369;761363; said:
West Virginia doesn't require a pre fight blood test. Do you think its a coincidence that this fight was scheduled there?
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No blood test?

I have a feeling the next question on the sanctioning form after the HIV one is:

"To your knowledge, is the person you're about to fight any closer relation than your second cousin?"

They always say "No"
 
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Tony Holden, Morrison's former promoter, claims Morrison had HIV back in 1996 and he believes he still does.
"I took him to several doctors after the Nevada (commission's) test confirmed that he was HIV-positive and we got the same result," Holden said. "Without a doubt he was HIV-positive. He was diagnosed by several doctors with HIV. I think he was positive then and he still is."
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from the article
 
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