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unbeaten boxer with dreams of glory
Paris was 18 years old. he was an unbeaten boxer with dreams of glory that seemed about to die with him in the back of a crumbling home in one of the country's most notorious neighborhoods. -
A fight at an abandoned home
Only seven months after turning pro, Paris said he was lured to the abandoned home by two boxers he had handled fairly easily in sparring a bit earlier. When he got there, he quickly realized he wasnt making a social call. Other men were waiting for him. This was a set-up. Paris walked out the back door of the house and was shot in the center of the back of the head, about three inches above his hair line. -
less than two years after he was shot
Paris was stabbed seven times. A woman, who had come to his homewith a man, plunged a knife into his back, his chest his side and his abdomen. His lung was punctured, his liver sliced, his kidney stabbed. -
Paris was stabbed seven times
"My baby mama was in the house and six months pregnant with my daughter," Paris said. "She had her four year-old son. I'm in the house by myself. You know, I got to protect my home, so I opened the door. This dude was going crazy tryuing to grab me, bigger dude, so I swung on him. We got to tussling, but the whole time we're tussling, his girl had pulled a knife out her pocket and started stabbing me up. -
The stabbing kept Paris from the ring
He's gone 10-0 with four knockouts since the stabbing. These are heady times for a man who rightly should have been dead and gone years ago. But he's engaged Judah in a war of words and promised to stop him. He mocked Judah, a former world champion at 140 and 147 pounds, for getting knocked out by a body shot from Amir Khan in his last fight. Judah contends the punch was low, but Paris, like most observers, believes it was a legal punch.