Report: Morrison's former agent says fighter tested positive for HIV

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Report: Morrison's former agent says fighter tested positive for HIV

PHOENIX (AP) — Tommy Morrison's former agent said the fighter tested positive for the HIV virus in mandatory blood tests for a boxing license, The Arizona Republic reported Friday on its Web site.

"Tommy has tested positive for the HIV antibodies and he always has," Randy Lang told the newspaper on Friday.

Lang said he stopped working for Morrison, the former heavyweight champion set to make his mixed martial arts debut Saturday night at Cliff Castle Casino, on Feb. 25 because the tests had been misrepresented by the boxer and promoter Peter McKinn.

A message left on McKinn's cell phone wasn't immediately returned.

The 38-year-old Morrison has been attempting a comeback after an 11-year retirement following the discovery that he was HIV positive. Morrison says he has taken several HIV tests during his comeback bid and all have been negative.

"They've been telling me I've been dying for 11 years," Morrison said Thursday.

Lang told the Republic that he witnessed tests in Phoenix in January that were reported to be negative. The tests, also witnessed by McKinn and John Montano of the Arizona State Boxing Commission, were supposed to have been the basis for a West Virginia license that allowed Morrison to fight John Castle. Morrison knocking out John Castle in the second round.

Lang told the newspaper Friday that either the documentation was fraudulent or that the blood samples were switched.

Morrison was scheduled to fight in Houston in late April, but was pulled from the bout because state boxing officials didn't get the results of lab tests in time.

Morrison won the WBO heavyweight belt in 1993 by outpointing George Foreman, but lost the title later that year. Morrison was scheduled to fight Stormy Weathers when he tested HIV positive in February 1996.

The Associated Press

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Morrison, ex-agent in dispute
Fighter's HIV status still in question
Norm Frauenheim
The Arizona Republic
Jun. 9, 2007 12:00 AM

Tommy Morrison's former agent said Friday that the ex-heavyweight champion was positive for HIV in mandatory blood tests for a boxing license.

"Tommy has tested positive for HIV antibodies, and he always has," Randy Lang of Glendale said.

Morrison, who was licensed by West Virginia and beat John Castle on Feb. 22 in Chester after undergoing some of those tests in Phoenix, is scheduled for a mixed martial arts bout tonight against John Stover at Cliff Castle Casino in Camp Verde.

Morrison doesn't need a license tonight because the casino is the property of the Yavapai-Apache Nation and not under jurisdiction of the Arizona State Boxing Commission.

At a news conference Thursday in Camp Verde, Morrison, 38, again said that he does not have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. He also said the initial diagnosis before a scheduled fight in Las Vegas in 1996 was a false-positive.

"What doctors have told me is a lie," said Morrison, who has been living and training in Phoenix. "They're telling me I'm dying. I'm fine."

Lang said he split with Morrison on Feb. 25 because he said the tests in Phoenix were misrepresented by the boxer and his promoter, Peter McKinn, also the promoter for tonight's mixed-martial arts card.

The tests, which were witnessed by Lang, McKinn and John Montano of the Arizona Commission, were supposed to have been the basis for the West Virginia license.

However, Lang alleged that either the undisclosed documents were fraudulent or that blood samples were switched.

"All the blood tests came from Randy Lang and, as far as I saw on the paperwork sent by Lang, the results were zero-negative," said McKinn, who said he was never in West Virginia for the licensing process because of personal business in Phoenix.

McKinn and Morrison's publicist/manager, Lisa Woodard of Northridge, Calif., said that Lang misrepresented himself as an attorney.

"He has no credentials," said Woodard, who is engaged to be married to Morrison.

Lang said Friday that he has a degree from the American College of Law in Anaheim.

Lang said Friday that his work with Morrison was based on the argument that he had a right to fight, even with a positive test, because evidence of HIV was so low that the virus could not be transmitted in the ring if injured fighters exchanged blood in a collision.

"That has always been my position, and it's the appropriate one," said Lang, who also said Morrison tested positive for Hepatitis C.

Morrison, a nephew of late actor John Wayne and had a film role in Rocky V, was scheduled for an April 27 bout in Houston.

He underwent blood tests in Houston, but documentation did not arrive in time for Texas authorities to grant him a license, according to media reports. Morrison said he withdrew the application. Those tests were reported to be negative.

[Uncle B]

this Lang is a piece of shit, no matter how this turns out.


in the thread here from January, he was the one claiming Morrison was HIV free..



Morrison Tests Positive for HIV ((Jan 16th))

It has been reported by The Arizona Republic that according to Randy Lang, a Glendale attorney, former WBO heavyweight champion Tommy Morrison, now 38-years old, has tested negative for HIV and the results of the test have been submitted to an expert appointed by the Arizona State Boxing Commission. Commission member John Montano witnessed the test and is waiting on a report from the expert.

Lang had hoped to have Morrison fight this Friday night in a four-round bout, but has stated that Morrison injured his hand sparring last Saturday and will need to have a x-ray. They will continue to pursue the license in the hopes that Morrison will fight in February, barring serious injury to the hand. Montano has also stipulated that due to his age, he will also need to see Morrison spar before any sort of consideration can be made for a license.

Morrison has not fought in ten years after testing positive for HIV, which he is now claiming was a false-positive. Morrison has had many troubling incidents outside the ring, including prison time. His professional record is 46-3-1.

Of course, now he is no longer on Morrisons payroll, so, he's gonna "out" him..

Selfish, greedy piece of shit...