Before we drag out the tar and feathers, before we find a poplar tree to hang him high, let?s take a collective deep breath?
Trouble comes in many forms, as former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver is discovering.
Despite being smart, accomplished, and eloquent, Tarver has gotten into more than his fair share of trouble in recent years.
Starting with testing positive for PEDs after his fight with Lateef ?I fuck he up? Kayode in 2012, which led to his dismissal from Showtime, his being canned from the Olympics, and a year-long suspension from the Buster Brown of sports, the latest bit of trouble happened in the fighter-friendly state of Florida where Tarver lives.
Tarver, 45, was arrested shortly before midnight on Saturday by the Highway Patrol in Pinellas County. He wasn?t speeding. His tail light wasn?t out. He presumably wasn?t DWB (Driving While Black).
Tarver was taken into custody on a warrant issued by authorities in Nevada, another fighter-friendly state. The warrant alleges he jumped bail and is currently being held without bond.
The Nevada charges stem from check kiting, or writing bad checks.
Before we drag out the tar and feathers, before we find a poplar tree to hang him high, let?s take a collective deep breath and acknowledge that none of us are saints. This is boxing, after all, not a Benedictine monastery.
None of us is perfect. We?ve all screwed up to varying degrees. We?ve all made mistakes. Show me a man who never made a mistake and I?ll show you man still stuck in his mother?s uterus.
Schadenfreude is all well and good, especially in Germany in 1938, but seems out of place in the good old US of A.
