Valero Arrested for Domestic Violence...Again
by Brickhaus on Mar 25, 2010 6:38 PM EDT
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El Nacional (link in Spanish) is reporting that lightweight titlist Edwin Valero has once again been arrested for domestic violence. This isn't the first time that there have been allegations of domestic violence against "El Inca". In September, he was arrested for allegedly striking his mother and his sister. The charges were subsequently dropped.
According to reports, Valero's wife was hospitalized with numerous injuries, including a collapsed lung. Valero was arrested on the charges upon coming to the hospital to visit her.
This is one of a number of legal problems for Valero. He reportedly has a DUI charge levied against him in Texas, which has prevented him from fighting in one of the few American states where he can get licensed. In addition, in mid-2009, he was detained for carrying an illegal firearm.
This can only make Valero's situation worse. Even if he gets the DUI sorted out, having a public history of violent behavior usually gives the goverment good reason to deny a visa. In addition, if he is convicted, then there is a chance he would not be able to reenter the country at all.
While Valero currently has no fights scheduled, it is rumored that he will be moving to junior welterweight, and that Top Rank was planning on having him fight Lamont Peterson. This news probably puts those plans on hold for now.
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I know this is stating the obvious here, but if true, that’s totally F’d up.
Regular people shouldn’t hit their wives, and boxers shouldn’t hit regular people. For a boxer to hit his wife is ridiculous.
Valero is to hot in Valenzuela right now. He’ll get a slap on the wrist. If even that. I don’t care what Valero does in his spare time. I wanna know when he’s getting back in the ring again
If a man ain't found something worth dying for. He ain't fit to live.
Dude, she had a collapsed lung
Plus, funny thing about the Venezuelan legal system is that while the sentences are pretty short, they do actually convict people. Everyone thought Ugueth Urbina would just get a slap on the wrist because he was a celebrity, but he’s still doing time in prison.
It’s more likely that he’ll get released and the charges will be dropped though. If I remember correctly (and I could be wrong here), in Venezuela they can arrest someone while the crime is still being investigated. Thus, it may turn out that they investigate, find out that someone else did it, and then release him. There’s not a whole lot of info out there right now other than that his wife has a punctured lung and Valero got arrested. It’s not like she’s told the press that he did it. For all I know, she’s still unconscious.
If there’s merit to this one, I doubt you’ll be seeing him fight on US TV too much more soon. He won’t be able to get into the country, and Bob Arum can’t keep booking him in Mexico forever.
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"in his spare time"
You make wife-beating sound like a hobby. This is disgusting if true. We should already be skeptical about letting Valero fight because of his brain bleed. Now violent criminality should also be an issue. People need to get off the guy’s bandwagon. Doug Fischer, I’m looking at you.
Maybe one is the reason for the other.
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by The Midnight Rambler on Mar 25, 2010 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Jesus Christ — “his spare time.” He’s not playing frisbee golf, he’s beating the shit out of women.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 25, 2010 9:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I must of misread the part where it said “allegedly.” I wasn’t aware he had already been convicted. Cuz we all know when a women says she was beaten there is no doubt what’s so ever she was beaten. Yeah ok. I follow boxing. Valero is a boxer. An exciting one at that. What he does in the ring is really the only thing that interests me about him. He’s pretty popular right now. Everything he does is gonna be news. Doesn’t mean it’s all true. The first domestic violence charges were dropped for a reason. Cuz they never happened. From what I read they were lies made up by a third party who isn’t part of his family. So I see no reason to bad mouth him over allegations.
And Ugueth Urbina is still doing time. But there’s a difference between domestic violence allegations and pouring gasoline on people and trying to hack them with a machete
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by Violent Demise on Mar 25, 2010 10:26 PM EDT up reply actions
You didn’t say, “Hey I bet he didn’t do it.” You said, “Eh, I don’t care if he beats the shit out of his wife.” And referred to it as his “spare time.”
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by Scott Christ on Mar 25, 2010 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
Come on now. I never once said "I don’t care if he beats the shit out of his wife." I said I don’t care what he does on his spare time. And I don’t. You took it as me saying that cuz you already convicted him. As have a lot of people. I rather wait and see how it plays out first. Like the other allegation did. If he does do it and the allegations are true than that’s his cross to bear.
If a man ain't found something worth dying for. He ain't fit to live.
by Violent Demise on Mar 25, 2010 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Well, fair enough. I mean I’m not going to tell you how to think.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 25, 2010 11:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Nor would i to you. This site would suck pretty bad if we all thought the same.
If a man ain't found something worth dying for. He ain't fit to live.
by Violent Demise on Mar 25, 2010 11:41 PM EDT up reply actions
I'd get really bored
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by Scott Christ on Mar 25, 2010 11:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Spoken like the VD i know and love.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Mar 25, 2010 9:29 PM EDT up reply actions
He doesn’t make things any easier on himself. If this turns out to be true or even if he is innocent and something else comes up again people will turn there backs on him if they already havn’t. Makes you wonder if he takes his career seriously or anything for that matter
"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up." - Ali
Mr. and Ms. Valero in happier times
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yeah she is kind of a bombshell. And she doesn’t look like she gets very bitchy.
I never understand how relationships get patched up after this type of shit. I mean, it’s gotta be akin to infidelity – maybe there’s no divorce because of culture or $ or whatever, but it’s gotta be kind of a fundamental deal breaker.
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WELL, WHEN IT’S DONE IN A TRAILER HOME, THEY SEEM TO FALL MORE MADLY IN LOVE WITH ONE ANOTHER AFTER THE FACT. GO FIGURE.
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by The Midnight Rambler on Mar 25, 2010 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions
She is cute… he looks crazy…
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by Zocalo on Mar 25, 2010 9:48 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
She is hot. Why would he wack her for God’s Sakes? Vlaero is badly in need of some damage control. If this is true, he will have some steep steps to climb.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Mar 25, 2010 9:31 PM EDT reply actions
Obviously this dude is unhinged and a bad human being overall. He fits the archetype of Ike Ibeabuchi, Tony Ayala Jr. and Mike Tyson— brutal and scary in the ring, unable to supress the violence outside of it.
Ugh
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---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Mar 25, 2010 10:03 PM EDT reply actions
His mother too??
If it’s true, he’s a piece of shit.
I wouldn’t bother to watch him fight again.
Beyond unacceptable
Didn’t Barrios taunt Valero with a line like “When you are done beating your wife and mother, you can take on a real challenge” or something like that. The funny thing is people thinking that because of this action he is an idiot. The man has a huge flag and a picture of Chavez tattooed on his chest, that should be a pretty big clue about his intelligence. Valero is becoming irrelevant again, regardless of talent.
Chavez is pretty popular with Venezuelans. Also, many of the man’s ideas are very good for the region. But that is politics, which is neither here nor there.
by tkeithwhite on Mar 25, 2010 10:53 PM EDT up reply actions
There is a big difference between popular and tattooing them onto your chest. Clinton was really popular when he was in charge here, but I didn’t see anyone get him tattooed on his(or her?) chest. It doesn’t matter who it is, if you ever have the thought of “man i should tattoo this person on my chest, because that always looks awesome” probably has mental issues. Just sayn’
by Waldo Rastel on Mar 25, 2010 11:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Let’s not hang him until all the evidence is in, but it sure does not look good given his past.
"If you sit there and watch a person take about an hour to tie his shoestrings, then you realize that whatever problems you got ain't that significant"
---Vernon Forrest 2006
by The Midnight Rambler on Mar 25, 2010 10:55 PM EDT reply actions
So that people can’t change what they say after they say something that’s totally wrong, because then you wind up with a possible long discussion that later doesn’t make any sense. Our communities are built to be live discussions, basically.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 25, 2010 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions
I sometimes wish there could be a feature that would just let you change a set number of words, like three or four words. I am not as sharp as I used to be (and was never the sharpest knife in the drawer) but sometimes I will re-read something twice before I press post and it still sounds like I have scrambled eggs for brains.
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shit, I do that all the time
It’s the nature of the site, really.
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by Scott Christ on Mar 25, 2010 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Ike and Ayala
I think in Ike’s case he he was guilty of false imprisonment, he prevented a prostitute from leaving his hotel room for hours while battering her. Tony preferred to sneak in and attack while hoping to remain anonymous, I’m no expert but Ike seems to be the more brutal of the two, Ayala’s were alcohol related I believe also. Who knows what demons are in the minds of those that commit offenses against the weak, perhaps they are unable to differentiate between man and women when doling out their pain. Does the feeling of dominance over another human being overwhelm the mind of these fighters because of a lack of social skills, Ayala comes from a family of fighters, turned pro when he was 17 I believe. In any case it shouldn’t be tolerated because of fame or money. Peace!!
If this is true
Then this is terribly sad and also completely ignoble.
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by Drunken cutman on Mar 26, 2010 10:04 PM EDT reply actions
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