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Former world heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno has been taken for treatment to a psychiatric hospital, report British media.
According to the reports, the 41-year-old divorced father-of-three was taken from his home in Brentwood, in Essex, near London, by paramedics to a local hospital on Monday.
An Essex police spokesman said they had attended an address in Brentwood earlier in the day and helped a man to hospital.
The former champion was recently reported to have been seeking help for depression as he struggled to come to terms with life outside the ring and a divorce.
Former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan, now a TV commentator and pundit, told SkySports TV: "I think in boxing with a lot of fighters they find that retirement leaves a big, gaping hole in their lives and nothing ever replaces what it's like in the ring when you hit the dizzy heights like Frank did.
"Everything after that is very much a disappointment."
In April, Bruno, who has not fought since losing his WBC title to Mike Tyson in Las Vegas in 1996, made an application for the return of his licence, saying he wanted to take on Olympic gold medallist Audley Harrison.
Bruno, who recorded 40 victories in a career spanning 45 fights, reached the pinnacle of his career in 1995 when he outpointed Oliver McCall to claim the WBC heavyweight title after failing in previous bids against Tim Witherspoon, Tyson and fellow Briton Lennox Lewis.
His prolific early career, which featured 21 consecutive knock-outs, meant he was the most talked-about British heavyweight since Henry Cooper while his jovial out-of-ring demeanour made him the darling of the British sporting public.
But in recent years he has largely faded from the spotlight, appearances in Christmas pantomimes being a traditional exception.
beavertron
23-09-2003, 01:13
:(
Just shows you having millions doesnt necesarily make you happy.
:(
no doubt the anti boxing monkeys will blame this on too many knocks to the head :wack:
McRearout
23-09-2003, 08:27
Shows you that being twatted round the head for a living isn't that much of a good idea.
:cry: Shame, seemed such a decent bloke
McRearout
23-09-2003, 08:43
I'm not an anti-boxing monkey by the way.
Can't beat a bit of hardcore violence.
Especially if Turkish football fans are on the recieving end.
:annoyed:
gaz.thomas
23-09-2003, 08:55
Shame - Seemed like a nice fella. :(
edit: scratch that - wifebeating w@nker
Gaz
-x-
Jezz_S13
23-09-2003, 09:22
didn't he get done a while back for beating his missus up.
Nice bloke. :rolleyes:
McRearout
23-09-2003, 09:24
Originally posted by Jezz_S13
didn't he get done a while back for beating his missus up.
Nice bloke. :rolleyes:
PMSL
:smitten: :smash: :notworthy
Still amusing to see The Scum retract a headline though....
Early editions "Bonkers Bruno Banged Up"
Later editions "Sad Bruno In Mental Home"
Obviously they realised that they weren't quite in tune with the public on that one.
:censored: surplus :censored: twats :furious:
I take it back when I said he seems like a nice bloke, didn't know he was a wife beater, f:censored: k him then
The Sun headline read "Bonkers Bruno gets Locked Up", they changed the headline for the evening edtion.
Dunc.
McRearout
23-09-2003, 14:50
Originally posted by dunc
The Sun headline read "Bonkers Bruno gets Locked Up", they changed the headline for the evening edtion.
Dunc.
I have that on my desk Bobby.
Made me laugh. The Sun shows its sensetive side again and tiptoes round the subject.....
:D :smash: :p
hehe, no more ice cream vans near the mental home then
yea poor dude, getting boshed in the head many a time didnt do him any good buyt it was his choice to do it :(
:smash:
McRearout
23-09-2003, 14:53
The mental home annual christmas play should be quite interesting.....
rofl :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :wack: :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed: :annoyed: :sleep: :wave: :wave: :smash: :smash: :wack: :indiff: :mad: :cry: :furious: :whip: :ghey: :Plug:
nownow people lets all practice the snowman theme
McRearout
23-09-2003, 15:04
come on Frank, give Timmy his wheelchair back.......
Gerald stop biting Rob's hand please, thats naughty, stop it... STOP IT
NOO
:cry::whip:
Originally posted by blobsta
Yeah poor multi millionare frank.. :rolleyes: :indiff:
Money's no substitute for family and friends, or a sense of meaning in your life :(
People suffering with mental illness are deserving of compassion regardless of their personal wealth :nod:
Yeah I know, and of course I would never condone such behaviour, but he must have been well on the way to do that in the first place and I'm sure the way he was treated by the press at the time didn't help much :(
I wasn't having a go mate, it's just easy for any of us to condemn people based on what we get from the meeja when actually we know very little about what's really going on. :confused:
Originally posted by SFC
Money's no substitute for family and friends
Yes it is.
piehound
23-09-2003, 17:57
oh well now hes banged up he might get a diffrent battering around the ring, hope they dont put sand in the vaseline :ghey: :ghey: :whip: :) :)
sorry guys couldnt help it lol
Bruno was one of my heros as a kid, he was great!
I really hope he keeps his black and decker up and sorts him self out, huh huh huh huh, ya know what I mean 'arry!
Jezz_S13
23-09-2003, 18:37
Originally posted by Vez
Bruno was one of my heros as a kid, he was great!
Yep that's because he was the only boxer we had and the media hyped him up to be a hero with his thick muppet act that endeared everyone to him, know wha a meen arry, but lets face it he wasn't actually a very good boxer was he.
Jalfrezi
23-09-2003, 18:44
Originally posted by Jezz_S13
Yep that's because he was the only boxer we had and the media hyped him up to be a hero with his thick muppet act that endeared everyone to him, know wha a meen arry, but lets face it he wasn't actually a very good boxer was he.
no he wasn't, he fell over almost as much as his lookalike Emile Heskey :wack:
MeLLoN Stu
23-09-2003, 18:46
Originally posted by JB
Yes it is.
PMSL :D:D
must be all them tiwsted panto's he done sent him round the twist.
McRearout
24-09-2003, 08:22
Originally posted by Jalfrezi
no he wasn't, he fell over almost as much as his lookalike Emile Heskey :wack:
Oi! Leave Heskey out of this!
He's a quality striker :rolleyes:
:D
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Originally posted by Jezz_S13
but lets face it he wasn't actually a very good boxer was he.
Lets see : ABA Champion at 18, 45 Pro fights, 40 wins. WBC World Champion
If he had cancer people would be saying "poor Frank", but as it mental illness it's ok to take the p iss. Makes me a little :mad: , but mostly :(
When someone on here is feeling really low because their life is going to the crapper most people are really supportive. Is Frank "fair game" coz he was successful ?
ok, sermon over.
AshT_200
24-09-2003, 17:10
Originally posted by Lewis
Lets see : ABA Champion at 18, 45 Pro fights, 40 wins. WBC World Champion
If he had cancer people would be saying "poor Frank", but as it mental illness it's ok to take the p iss. Makes me a little :mad: , but mostly :(
When someone on here is feeling really low because their life is going to the crapper most people are really supportive. Is Frank "fair game" coz he was successful ?
ok, sermon over.
His stats are good, only because of the other lemons he fought. Lets face it, when he came up against real competition, he got beat. And he only won the WBC from the lucky puncher Oliver Mcall. Mcall if I remember cried when he got back into the ring with Lennox Lewis.
Recent reports say that Frank thought he was Frankie Dettori, no offence but a white jockey is the complete opposite to a black heavyweight boxer, so the guy must be a few cans short of a sixpack.
And stop trying to get Arry to comment. :D Huh Huh Huh
Originally posted by Lewis
Lets see : ABA Champion at 18, 45 Pro fights, 40 wins. WBC World Champion
If he had cancer people would be saying "poor Frank", but as it mental illness it's ok to take the p iss. Makes me a little :mad: , but mostly :(
When someone on here is feeling really low because their life is going to the crapper most people are really supportive. Is Frank "fair game" coz he was successful ?
Well said. Mental illness isn't something that I would wish on anyone, other than the most deserving paedophiles - but then they are ill any way
McRearout
25-09-2003, 08:36
I'm mentally ill, but I get no sympathy.
:D
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