No matter how many fights he won or lost, former WBO World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Morrison — who died Sunday in an Omaha, Nebraska hospital — was always going to be remembered as Tommy “Machine” Gunn, the mulleted, arrogant son of a bitch who won the heavyweight title in Rocky V against a “paper champ,” but who couldn’t beat an aged and injured Balboa in a Philadelphia street fight. But maybe that’s better than being known as Morrison, who never lived up to his potential, and whose career was marred by a positive HIV test, drunk driving, and jail time.
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