GONE TOO SOON

These 10 professional boxers were, like Terry Young (pages 28-31), murdered via shooting.

1. STANLEY KETCHEL

The “Michigan Assassin” became world middleweight champion in 1907 and even boxed Jack Johnson for the world heavyweight title in 1909. He was then tragically shot the following year, at just 24.

2. BATTLING SIKI

Born in Senegal but based in France, Siki won the world light-heavyweight title in 1922. He was later stabbed and hospitalised two days after a 1925 win over Jimmy Francis, before being shot and killed later that year. He was 28.

3. VERNON FORREST

Vernon Forrest was most famous for defeating Shane Mosley twice in 2002. Seven years later, still only 38, he was killed by robbers at a gas station.

4. HECTOR CAMACHO

“Macho” Camacho was a three-weight world titlist. In 2012, he was shot in the jaw while sitting in a car in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, and later passed away. He was 50.

5. AL ‘BUMMY’ DAVIS

Davis was a popular Brooklyn native, beating the likes of Tony Canzoneri and Bob Montgomery. He was killed by four armed robbers who attacked the bar he owned in 1945. He was 25.

6. TYRONE EVERETT

Philadelphia southpaw Everett won 36 of his first 37 pro fights before, in 1977, he was shot and killed by his girlfriend after she came home and found him with a transvestite. Everett was only 24.

7. OSCAR BONAVENA

In 1976, the Argentinean heavyweight, just 33, was shot dead by a security guard at the Mustang Ranch near Reno, Nevada following a dispute with the owner.

8. BILL ‘KO’ BRENNAN

Heavy-handed Brennan finished 49 of his 52 pro wins by knockout and fought Jack Dempsey for the world heavyweight title in 1920. Four years later, Brennan, then 30, was shot and killed by bandits outside the bar he owned in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

9. CORRIE SANDERS

Famous for shocking the world and demolishing thenwbo heavyweight titlist Wladimir Klitschko, South African Sanders was later shot and killed during an armed robbery in 2012. He was 46.

10. JULIAN LETTERLOUGH

Letterlough, an exciting light-heavyweight slugger known as ‘Mr KO’, had his life cut short in 2005 at the age of 35. He was shot in the back while leaving a bar with his wife in Reading, Pennsylvania.