Darrin Morris

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Darrin Morris ((born June 15, 1966, Detroit- died October 1, 2000, West Palm Beach), super middleweight boxer at the WBO.

The WBO twice moved Darrin Morris up in its super-middleweight rankings in 2001, despite the fact that he died of HIV-related meningitis at age 32 the previous October. Morris, nicknamed The Mongoose, was #7 at the time of his death and #5 when the WBO discovered the error. WBO-president Francisco Varcarcel said "we obviously missed the fact that Darrin was dead. It is regrettable." One week after British newspaper The Independent broke the story, one of the three men ranking the boxers, Gordon Volkman, still had not heard that Morris was dead. In addition, Morris had only fought once in three years, beating a boxer with only 15 wins out of 78 fights. [1]

Morris (28-2-1, 18 KOs) once was a sparring partner for Sugar Ray Leonard.