Etienne gets 64 years!!!!!!!

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:32 pm

source: tsn.ca/boxing

In 2001, Etienne signed a multifight deal with Showtime worth $1 million, but his career went downhill quickly, largely coming to an end with a 49-second first-round loss to Mike Tyson in February 2003.

Etienne was convicted of two counts of armed robbery, attempted carjacking, two counts of second-degree kidnapping, attempted second-degree murder and two counts of attempted manslaughter.

Assistant District Attorney Prem Burns said Etienne faces at least 64 years in prison. He is scheduled to be sentenced June 22.

Late Thursday, a state district court jury rejected defence claims that Etienne did not know what he was doing because he was high on drugs and suffering from brain injuries sustained from boxing.

Authorities said Etienne fired a shot and forced his way into a check cashing business and took more than $1,900 on Aug. 10.

He tried to hijack one car with two children inside and hijacked another with two children inside before wrecking the second vehicle and being caught by police.

Police said Etienne tried to fire at police and one of the drivers, but the gun jammed both times.

Etienne, a former high school football star, was parolled in 1998 after serving half of a 20-year attempted armed robbery sentence and became a professional boxer.

"He really had a second chance and he blew it, because he is one of a few young offenders who was released early on something as serious as an attempted armed robbery," Burns said Friday.

-all i have to say is ouch. i feel for etienne but now he can be the jail heavyweight champ

Amateur Joined: Jan 21, 2006 Posts: 92

what happened to the $1m? he could have trained harder looking at his *Censor* in that fight.

World Champion Joined: Jul 17, 2004 Posts: 563

Why go out and rob a store if you have a decent boxing carreer getting paydays (of $1 mln) against Tyson etc?
Whyyy??

I guess it is hard to get the ghetto live-style out of you when you grew up with it.

Posted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 11:40 pm

his carrer was over lost like 3 fights in a row. buddy mcgirt left him and told him that he should retire. so i guess he needed the money. he had brain damage from the valeuv fight. mcgirt said everytime he got hit in the top of the head he would go down.