Former boxer/bouncer kills man with single punch
Garry Delaney, a British cruiserweight/heavyweight who fought as a pro from 1991-2005, was convicted yesterday of killing man with a punch.
While working as a doorman at a hotel disco on October 7, Delaney hit Paul Price with a devastating uppercut and the blow lifted him off his feet.
Price fell backwards and his head hit the ground. His skull was fractured and, despite having surgery, Price died.
Delaney is due to be sentenced tomorrow.
Delaney “did not hang around and although he was due to have worked until 1 a.m. he made himself scarce and got into a BMW and drove away without putting the lights on,” a prosecutor told the Sun newspaper.
The 35-year-old ex-fighter, who lives in London, denied murdering Price, aged 23.
On the fateful evening, Price and a friend, James Farrell, had been turned away after not meeting the dress code. Instead they went to the hotel’s bar.
The bartender thought Farrell was behaving “in a troublesome way” and asked Delaney to remove him.
Delaney, who stepped away from the ring after losing his last seven straight, sprayed Farrell with a substance, the prosecution said, and then dragged him outside, where he dumped the man in a shrub.
His pal came to his aid.
“Paul Price saw what happened and went outside to remonstrate verbally with the defendant,” the prosecutor said. “Delaney was seen to hit him in the face with an uppercut. It lifted him off the ground.”
A post mortem showed that Delaney, who quit with a 31-3-1 mark, left a heavy toll on his victim.
Price suffered a swollen right eye, bruising to the eye socket and cheek and a fracture to the upper jaw, swelling on his right cheekbone and damage to his upper lip.
The record of Delaney is inaccurate. He quit with a record of 31-13-1. I thought I would let people know that since many might wonder how a guy who lost his last seven fights could retire with a record of 31-3-1.
Bouncers aren’t policemen and that’s why throwing people out can get them into alot more trouble than it’s worth. What I was always told was to ask the person to leave, if they wouldn’t leave, then you either get a few guys to help you make the person leave or you call the police. It’s as simple as that. You’re not supposed to beat the shit out of the person or kill them and the only time we were allowed to touch someone is if they got physical with us.
It is sad that this happen to the victim and the ex-boxer in the fight. Yet, Delaney should have used common sense. I don’t know where he learned to fight at but it didn’t teach him to think. Boxers are some of the quickest thinkers in the world in this case he did not think. I was always taught that you never touch anyone unless theu touch you first. He should have called the police and let them handle the rude customer. I don’t see how he was a boxer boxing is a thinking man’s sport. I see why his record is like it is because if he could not think inside the ring he could think outside of it.
I am glad he is in jail! A cruiserweight boxer hitting a defenceless drunk – the poor guy had no chance. Delaney probably likes to think himself as a hard man – well he wasn’t so hard where it mattered in the ring was he? Interestingly an ex girlfried commented in a newspaper how he used to beat her up once a week and go looking for trouble regularly when they were out at night. Crap boxer pretend hardman and is now where he belongs!
everyone keeps going on about a defenceless man but there was two men that garry asked to leave and on the cctv you see one of them pull there arm back to hit garry but garry hit him first at the end of the day being a boxer does not mean they are a punch bag