EDWIN VALERO: NO DEFENCE
Unbeaten two weight world champion Edwin Valero killed himself in custody on April 19th 2010 shortly after he murdered his wife, Jennifer Carolina Viera de Valero. This is not a defence of the man, just a look at the unbeaten boxer, his huge talent and potential within the sport. A champion at two weights from 2006 to 2010, with a perfect knockout win record, the late Edwin Valero left the world with questions about his ceiling as a boxer, but none about his humanity. A troubled person, to say the least, Valero would go AWOL to do what he wanted (mainly cocaine and booze) and having suffered a brain injury after a motorbike accident was limited as to where he was licenced to fight, hindering his impact on the world scene. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of the brain will acknowledge that serious trauma and overconsumption of drugs do not make for a balanced person. Edwin Valero was not just a little askew, he was an absolute monster both in and out of the ring. Sometimes
