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CARACAS, Venezuela â€" Former boxing champ Edwin Valero committed suicide in his jail cell on Monday just hours after he was arrested in his wife's killing, police said.

The former lightweight champion used his own clothes to hang himself in his cell early Monday, Venezuelan Federal Police Chief Wilmer Flores told reporters. He said Valero tied his clothes to a cell bar to hang himself.

He said Valero was found by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lockup in north-central Carabobo state. Valero still showed signs of life, but they were unable to save him, Flores said.

The 28-year-old was detained Sunday on suspicion of killing his wife, the gravest in a string of problems that had threatened to derail his career. Prosecutors said Sunday night that they had planned to charge Valero after they found the body of his 24-year-old wife in a hotel in Valencia.

The boxer left the hotel room around dawn Sunday and allegedly told security he had killed Jennifer Viera, Flores said.

The fighter was a household name in Venezuela and had a huge image of President Hugo Chavez tattooed on his chest, along with the country's yellow, blue and red flag.

His all-action style and 27-0 record â€" all by knockouts â€" earned him a reputation as a tough, explosive crowd-pleaser. Venezuelans called him "Inca," alluding to an Indian warrior, while elsewhere he was called "Dinamita," or dynamite.

The former WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion had been in trouble with the law before.

Last month, Valero was charged with harassing his wife and threatening medical personnel who treated her at a hospital in the western city of Merida. Police arrested Valero following an argument with a doctor and nurse at the hospital, where his wife was being treated for a series of injuries, including a punctured lung and broken ribs.

The Attorney General's Office said in a statement that Valero was detained March 25 on suspicion of assaulting his wife, but his wife told a police officer her injuries were due to a fall. When the boxer arrived moments later, he forbade Viera from speaking to the police officer, and spoke threateningly to the officer, prosecutors said in a statement.

The Attorney General's Office said a prosecutor had asked a court to order Valero jailed but that the judge instead placed him under a restraining order that barred him from going near his wife, a condition he repeatedly violated.

kalooy sad...

he knows what he did! nag una una na lang sha!

Im not sorry for him. He deserved it.

Common na kaajo na nga case agi sa DRUGS!

taga Bohol gani bisan KATYUBONG ra capable naman gani mo luba2x kani pang Latin America nga tua didto daghan COCAINE?

Kabasa pod ko ani sa pacland daan naman sauna lahi ra og pangutok ni tawhana
tungod pod tingali sa aksidente nga bagok iyang ulo mao na ingon ani iyang
behavior gwapa ra ba iya asawa murag itsura ni angelina jolie
maka ingon man pod ta nga sayang iyang talent as boxer asa ka ana nga 27 wins
knockout tanan unya wala pildi unya 1st 18 ka fights knockout tanan kontra sa
round 1

at least, he died with unblemished boxing record.

Quote from: glacier_71 on April 20, 2010, 06:40:59 AM
at least, he died with unblemished boxing record.

unblemished boxing record but with shattered reputation. only rocky marciano died with unblemished record on both reputation and ring record. he died a violent death though due to plane crash.

boxer unya hasta asawa praktisan ug  kulata
  oh well, bye

Quote from: statesville on April 21, 2010, 09:37:02 AM
boxer unya hasta asawa praktisan ug  kulata
  oh well, bye

bye jud!

Gimingaw tingali siya sa iyang asawa, mao nga nakahukom nga moapas.

the most the most honorable thing he can do. after all what he did. after all putting all the mess in his so called decorated boxing life. he can't let himself rot in jail.

boksidor mangulatag asawa?  pagka miserable.  wa nay laing mapraktisan, gitiwasan pa gyod ang asawa.  angay unta niya ang klase ni lisa 'bad news' brown o ana 'the hurricane' julaton.  at least makasukol ning duha ug wingig ginagmay.     

Quote from: islander on April 22, 2010, 12:55:04 AM
boksidor mangulatag asawa?  pagka miserable.  wa nay laing mapraktisan, gitiwasan pa gyod ang asawa.  angay unta niya ang klase ni lisa 'bad news' brown o ana 'the hurricane' julaton.  at least makasukol ning duha ug wingig ginagmay.     

gagmay man na sila wala gihapoy dag-anan. si laila ali nalang or jackie frazier kay dagko na.

According to reports, giblame sa pamilya ni Valero ang gobyerno sa Venezuela kay
lagi lakas mani si Valero  sa gobyerno nila naa pa gani tattoo ni Chavez naa jud sa
iya chest nga lagi murag untouchable bisan unsa buhaton ni Valero like alcohol or drug
abuse dili dakpon or if madakpan man gani buhi-an ra pod dayon.
Before na murder iya asawa is gi rehab mani si Valero for 6 months unta
kay lagi hostile mood na tungod alcohol or sa drugs pero a week later gipagawas,
nakapatay nuon

Quote from: insurectus on April 23, 2010, 10:40:50 PM
According to reports, giblame sa pamilya ni Valero ang gobyerno sa Venezuela kay
lagi lakas mani si Valero  sa gobyerno nila naa pa gani tattoo ni Chavez naa jud sa
iya chest nga lagi murag untouchable bisan unsa buhaton ni Valero like alcohol or drug
abuse dili dakpon or if madakpan man gani buhi-an ra pod dayon.
Before na murder iya asawa is gi rehab mani si Valero for 6 months unta
kay lagi hostile mood na tungod alcohol or sa drugs pero a week later gipagawas,
nakapatay nuon

see? i knew it then. wa jud lain makapatay karong panahona ang mga druggies ra jud!

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 21, 2010, 04:40:48 PM
Gimingaw tingali siya sa iyang asawa, mao nga nakahukom nga moapas.

Sakto ka Toy gimingaw jud hinoon. Manghupaw unya ni siya inig abot didto kay iyang asawa tua sa light siya who knows basin gitabangan na ni ug kulata sa kampon ni Satanas.

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on April 23, 2010, 10:49:08 PM
Sakto ka Toy gimingaw jud hinoon. Manghupaw unya ni siya inig abot didto kay iyang asawa tua sa light siya who knows basin gitabangan na ni ug kulata sa kampon ni Satanas.

kana gud mga druggies kay ug mo hupas na ang TAMA kay they will experience extreme depression. naka amgo jud to sha sa ija gibuhat! ning lapas na jud sha.

maajo unta gikulating na to sha ni Taning! hahahhaa!

Wala naman pod siya lain smart move nabilin after gi murder iya asawa

Quote from: insurectus on April 23, 2010, 11:04:21 PM
Wala naman pod siya lain smart move nabilin after gi murder iya asawa

KOREK! that was his last option jud Tus! pero all i can say is MIRISI sha!!! we dont need him in this world.

Quote from: bol-anon nga cebuano on April 20, 2010, 11:46:24 PM
unblemished boxing record but with shattered reputation. only rocky marciano died with unblemished record on both reputation and ring record. he died a violent death though due to plane crash.

for the record, he never really had a good reputation long before he killed himself. so what's left to shatter?

Quote from: ms da binsi on April 23, 2010, 10:44:51 PM
see? i knew it then. wa jud lain makapatay karong panahona ang mga druggies ra jud!

di pod tanan. ang mga Ampatuans diay. di man tingali to mga drug-addicts.

Quote from: glacier_71 on April 24, 2010, 01:15:48 AM

di pod tanan. ang mga Ampatuans diay. di man tingali to mga drug-addicts.

Power and money addicts hinuon tingali...

Quote from: hubag bohol on April 24, 2010, 06:05:00 AM
Power and money addicts hinuon tingali...

aw kana. motoo pa ko, bay hubs.

Drugs are useful but if you abuse it,  will  lead to all evils.

Quote from: fdaray on April 24, 2010, 07:05:35 AM
Drugs are useful but if you abuse it,  will  lead to all evils.

di jud maajo, sir, abusaran na? kay bisag Medicol lang na, makadaut man gihapon. hehehe