{"id":14864,"date":"2012-05-31T16:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14864"},"modified":"2012-05-31T16:51:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T20:51:21","slug":"manager-says-boxer-williams-paralyzed-in-ga-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=14864","title":{"rendered":"Manager Says Boxer Williams Paralyzed  In Ga. Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 &#8211; <strong>Boxer Paul Williams<\/strong> was paralyzed Sunday after being involved in a motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs and doctors said it is unlikely he will continue his career, his manager said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the waist down, he has absolutely no movement. He\u2019s in very good spirits, though,\u2019\u2018 <strong>George Peterson<\/strong> said from his home in Aiken, S.C. \u201cHe still believes he\u2019s going to fight again.\u2019\u2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong>, 30, severed his spinal cord after falling on his back and head when he was thrown from his motorcycle Sunday morning in Marietta, Ga.,<strong> Peterson<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> has been listed in serious but stable condition on Monday at an undisclosed hospital,<strong> Peterson<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened Sunday morning in Marietta after <strong>Williams<\/strong> tried to avoid another car in the next lane that was negotiating a curve and then had to maneuver to avoid an oncoming car. <strong>Williams<\/strong> was in the area to attend his brother\u2019s wedding Sunday afternoon, <strong>Peterson<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know he\u2019s going to make a statement after surgery, because he\u2019s that kind of person,\u2019\u2018<strong> Peterson<\/strong> said. \u201cHe\u2019s 100 percent coherent and still has the will to want to get back on the motorcycle.\u2019\u2018<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> was scheduled to fight <strong>Saul \u201cCanelo\u2019\u2018 Alvarez<\/strong> on Sept. 15 in Las Vegas, but that event has been canceled, Peterson said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Williams<\/strong> won his first major welterweight title in July 2007 with a decision over <strong>Antonio Margarito<\/strong>. He struggled to land fights with the sport\u2019s biggest stars because of his pronounced size advantages, a high-volume punching rate and his relative anonymity, but was considered one of the world\u2019s top pound-for-pound stars.<\/p>\n<p>He earned victories over <strong>Carlos Quintana<\/strong>, <strong>Winky Wright<\/strong>, <strong>Sergio Martine<\/strong>z and <strong>Kermit Cintron<\/strong>, but <strong>Martinez<\/strong> abruptly stopped <strong>Williams\u2019<\/strong> rise in November 2010 with a second-round victory in their rematch. <strong>Williams<\/strong> ended up face-down on the canvas with his eyes wide open in perhaps the most spectacular knockout in recent boxing history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA\u00a0 &#8211; Boxer Paul Williams was paralyzed Sunday after being involved in a motorcycle crash in the Atlanta suburbs and doctors said it is unlikely he will continue his career, his manager said Monday. \u201cFrom the waist down, he has absolutely no movement. He\u2019s in very good spirits, though,\u2019\u2018 George Peterson said from his home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}