http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Payne_%28boxer%29

I was in this town the night of his final fight when he died. He lived across the street from a best buddy of mine. When we were younger, we could hear him beating the hell out of his bag in the basement and the houses were like 20 feet apart.

Oscar de le Hoya (spelling?) was coming out of retirement to fight him if he won that fight--which he did, but at the end of the match he fell down....

We found out he was dead the next morning. His wife and kids left months after that...it was so tragic. Boxing is very dangerous