Vinny Paz Biography
Vinny Paz is an American former professional boxer who held world titles at lightweight and light middleweight. The 2016 film Bleed for This is based on his comeback from a spinal injury.
Vinny Paz Age
Paz was born on 16 December 1962, Cranston, Rhode Island, U.S.A. He is 56 years old as of 2018.
Vinny Paz Married
Paz is in a relationship with a woman by the names Alexis Kroger. There are no details if the two are married or are planning to settle together.
Vinny Paz Net Worth
Out of his career, it is estimated that he has a net worth of $2 million US dollars.
Vinny Paz Assault
Retired Rhode Island boxing champion Vinny Paz pleaded no contest Thursday to charges of assaulting his live-in girlfriend, Alexis Kroger. But she claims Paz didn’t do it. Instead, she told NBC 10 News she hit herself in the face with her phone. Kroger said the phone inadvertently dialed her ex-husband, who lives in New Jersey when she was hitting herself with it and he called the police.
She said her ex abused her during their seven-year marriage and he will do anything to ruin her new relationship. Paz also said the whole thing was blown out of proportion. Police responded to reports of screaming coming from Paz’s house in Warwick at about 3 a.m.
Police said officers found Paz with blood on his right hand and face and that Kroger, had visible injuries. She was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where police said she was treated for minor facial injuries. Vinny Paz was arrested and charged with one count of domestic simple assault and one count of domestic disorderly conduct.
He pleaded no contest in Kent County District Court and was given a one-year suspended sentence, plus one year of probation after his no-contest plea.
Paz was also ordered to undergo counseling for domestic violence and substance abuse, but he but said he doesn’t have a problem.“I don’t have a drink before 10 at night. Ever. Ever. I don’t have a problem. And you know Rhode Island closes at 1, so it’s a couple of hours,” Paz said.
Vinny Paz Boxing
In the 1980s, Pazienza built a reputation along the East Coast, defeating such opponents as Melvin Paul (KO 2), Joe Frazier Jr. (TKO 7), Harry Arroyo (UD 10), Nelson Bolanos (TKO 6), and Roberto Elizondo (KO in 10). His first world title fight came on June 7, 1987, in Providence, Rhode Island, where he outpointed Greg Haugen over 15 rounds to become the IBF world lightweight champion. The pair would meet two more times: Haugen recovering the title in an immediate rematch, and Pazienza prevailing in a 10-round decision in their rubber match in 1990.
Pazienza failed in title tries in the junior welterweight division: in 1988, against WBC World Champion Roger Mayweather and in 1990, against both WBO Champion Hector “Macho” Camacho and WBA World Champion Loreto Garza.
In 1991, Pazienza moved into the junior middleweight division. In his first fight at junior middleweight, he won the USBA championship against Ron Amundsen in a 12-round decision. He defeated the WBA world Jr. middleweight champion Gilbert Delé with a 12th-round TKO in Providence, becoming the second fighter in boxing history to win both the lightweight and junior middleweight world championships.
Pazienza was forced to relinquish the title due to a serious car accident in which his neck was broken. Doctors informed him he might never walk again and would certainly never fight again. Pazienza had to wear a medical device called a Halo, a circular metal brace screwed into the skull in four spots and propped up with four metal rods. He had the Halo screwed to his skull for three months, during which time he maintained a workout regimen against doctors’ orders. He returned to the ring thirteen months after the accident and defeated future WBC world Jr. middleweight champion Luis Santana by a 10-round decision.
After the Santana fight, Pazienza went on to defeat Brett Lally by a 6th-round TKO, and then, in another TKO, former world champion Lloyd Honeyghan in the 10th round. Pazienza went on to win the vacant IBO middleweight world title in 1993 with an 11th-round KO over Dan Sherry. Pazienza then went on to beat Roberto Duran twice, both via decision, with the WBC super-middleweight title on the line both times.
In June 1995, Vinny Paz lost his world title bid against IBF world super-middleweight champion Roy Jones Jr. In 1996, Pazienza inflicted then-prospect Dana Rosenblatt’s only loss (a knockout in four rounds) to win the vacant WBU super middleweight world championship.
In early 2001, Vinny Paz legally changed his last name to Paz. In 2002, he lost to WBC world super-middleweight champion Eric Lucas in what would be his last shot at a world title. In 2004, Paz fought in his last fight, defeating Tucker Pudwill via 10-round unanimous decision. His record stands at 50-10, with 30 wins by knockout and five world titles (the IBF lightweight championship, WBA jr. middleweight championship, IBO super middleweight championship, IBC super middleweight championship, and the WBU super middleweight championship). He also won the USBA title.
Vinny Paz Show
Outside of boxing, Vinny Paz was a guest star on the TV series Police Academy, a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, was featured on The Montell Williams Show, served as a guest security guard on an episode of The Jerry Springer Show, and referred the Brawl for All fight at WrestleMania XV between Bart Gunn and Butterbean. He appeared in the unreleased 1997 movie The Good Life.
The 2016 film Bleed for This is based on his comeback from a spinal injury and stars Miles Teller as Pazienza.
Vinny Paz Accident
He was injured Nov. 12, 1991, when the car in which he was riding was struck broadside in Warwick. Pazienza, the WBA junior middleweight champion at the time, suffered a dislocated vertebra and two fractured vertebrae in his neck.
Vinny Paz Legal issues
Vinny Paz has been arrested on a variety of charges, including alcohol-related offenses, domestic violence, passing bad checks, and disorderly conduct.