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07/10/2008 Archived Entry: "Fire and Ice: The Troubled Odyssey of Vernon Paris"
Fire and Ice: The Troubled Odyssey of Vernon Paris
By Ted Sares
Courtesy of Eastsideboxing.com
I love him like a little brother. We stayed together in one of Emanuel Steward's houses when we were kids. It was just like camp. Me, Jonathan Banks, John Jackson, and Vernon are all pro boxers now.
--Cornelius “K-9” Bundrage
I heard he was stabbed once and then someone else said five times… love the heck out of him, but he needs to distance himself from some of his problems. We're praying for him.
--Michigan State boxing commissioner Al Lowe
I don’t want to jump into something and make another mistake…I have to take it slowly.
--Vernon Paris
Detroit’s exciting lightweight/junior welterweight prospect Vernon "Iceman" Paris, 18-0-0-1, fights with a bullet still lodged in his back and another in his thigh, after having been shot three times in the summer of 2006 in a murder attempt in which he was not at fault.
On that hot August 3, 2006 day, the headline and story read, in part, “Paris’s Amazing Survival Story!…When he regained consciousness, he had three bullet holes in his body while his assassins were making plans to roll his body in a carpet and dump it somewhere in Detroit. Vernon Paris ran for his life….
To read the rest, click on the link below:
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=16477&more=1
