"Boxing didn't kill dad" Willie Limond's heartbroken son opens up on sporting legend's seizure death
dailyrecord.co.ukTragic boxer Willie Limond's heartbroken son has broken his silence on losing his hero dad. Jake Limond insists his death from a suspected seizure was "random" and had nothing to do with numerous head blows during his stellar ring career.And the amateur fighter, 20, revealed how the family used gallows humour to cope as Willie, 45, lay stricken in hospital back in April.
He said: “I was training a boy and then I just got a call on the gym’s phone. They said it was the police and I thought, Oh, this is a bit heavy."They were phoning me to tell me they had my dad and I was just thinking this sounds pure dodge.
I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ They said he was taken unwell and I asked them if he was all right and they just said he had been taken to hospital."It was dead confusing.
He was dead fit and all that. He was looking well one minute and then all of a sudden took unwell. Completely random. Genuinely that’s the only word I can use to describe it, random."The ring king was found unresponsive in his car in Coatbridge on April 6 - just weeks before he was due to fight Geordie scrapper Joe Laws in a comeback bout in Glasgow.
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