Tommy Morrison

Tommy Morrison was an American heavyweight boxer, born in Arkansas in 1969 and raised in Oklahoma, who fought professionally from 1988 to 2009. A hard left hook was his best-known weapon. In 1993 he won the vacant World Boxing Organization heavyweight title by beating the 44-year-old George Foreman on points, and lost it in his second defence to Michael Bentt. He appeared as the fighter Tommy Gunn in the film Rocky V, and he fought briefly as a mixed martial artist at the end of his career. He died in 2013 at the age of 44, of complications related to AIDS, after an earlier suspension caused by a positive HIV test.