Tragic Fate of Big John Tate #boxing #shorts

Big John Tate never recovered after losing his heavyweight championship to Mike Weaver. He left the sport of boxing and became a vagrant who committed petty crimes. He served time at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary. Several years after his release, I hired Tate to help me train Keith McKnight for an upcoming television fight. I paid John. After the bout was over. Six weeks later, he died in an automobile accident. He was only 41 years old, and the medical examiner stated that he had used cocaine in the last hours of his life.