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Tommy Morrison Website Under Reconstruction, Press Release Cries Foul With Nevada

By Robert Brizel, Head RCM Boxing Correspondent

The late WBO heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison’s internet website is currently under reconstruction at www.tommymorrison.relayout.com on the internet.

A press release sent out last week involving Trisha Morrison, wife of Tommy Morrison, claims the Nevada Athletic Commission has refused to release the results of its 1996 HIV blood testing results on Tommy Morrison because it no longer has it. The Morrison camp claims electron microscope tests taken after death prove Morrison died HIV negative amidst a lengthy period of health decline and medical mismanagement.

Press Release from the Morrisson Family:
http://realcombatmedia.com/2013/10/important-press-release-tommy-morrisons-death-family/

Morrison’s battle with drug abuse and the law are well documented after his initial 1996 retirement from boxing. Morrison went public at this time in a press conference and on Maury Povich’s television show with his HIV Positive status.

 

After a public sports figure dies, it is standard procedure to have an official autopsy conducted which includes toxicological blood work and provide the results to the press. As Real Combat Media was contacted by the Morrison family’s representative, including receiving a copy of the press release, we have replied in fairness.

If Morrison’s family or representative can provide a copy of the official autopsy results of Tommy Morrison conducted either in Omaha, Nebraska, where he died, or in Arkansas, the state where he was buried in the Morrison family plot in Sulphur Springs, a follow up story to the Morrison death could be written based on the official results. For example, Nevada issued its autopsy report on the late entertainer Danny Gans sometime after he died, and the toxicological results were significant enough for the media to do a follow story. Real Combat Media has requested the official autopsy results from Morrison’s ‘representative’.

After death, protocol and procedure in journalism replies on official autopsy reports in reporting causes of death to resolve any possible controversy. To rely on other claims or sources provided would not be responsible journalism.

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