Many usual boxing aficionado may not have been familiar with the champ Edwin Valero prior to news of the murder of his wife and his suicide, but it was evident that behind such a ferocious boxing ability lay a man with a dark and troubled mind.
The 28-year-old boxing sensation soon to be killed himself in the early hours of Monday morning after admitting to murdering his 24-year-old wife Jennifer by stabbing her to death in their hotel room at the Inter Continental Hotel in the city of Valencia. Edwin was arrested for the murder and took his own life by hanging himself in his prison cell in Caracas using his own clothes.
As a boxing fighter Valero was never the big name he deserved to be in boxing. He really sighed to fight in the United States where big names and huge prize awaits. He was unable to obtain a boxing license in the US, the capital of the fight game, due to a motorcycle accident in 2001 in which he sustained damage to his brain after crashing at high speed without a helmet. The state of Texas was the only one which would grant him a license, but after being charged with drink driving there, Valero was refused a visa to enter the United States.
This is a sad story on boxing since many were looking forward for his next victorious quest in boxing and to soon fight with the current P4P king Manny Pacquiao.
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