Talk:Davey Moore (boxer, born 1959)

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I know about this person only what i found in the article that i renamed to The Boxers Davey Moore, and roughly the second half of that has been moved into this talk page's article, with an opening 'graph based on refactoring part of the same article. --Jerzy·t 02:20, 2005 July 28 (UTC)

From Wikipedia:Cleanup/July
2nd 'graph has WBA winning by knockout; 3rd a runon-sent & gratuitous "color commentary" on Tony Ayala (who may need an article); the 4th a 47-word sentence, perhaps a contender against Eichmann's where's-the-verb? testimony from the dock. Another in the same 'graph with 41.
 * --Jerzy·t 03:17, 2005 July 28 (UTC)

"Instant" Death
Squeamish readers should skip this discussion of calling his death "instant".

_ _ Do we have reason to believe the car crushed his skull? Saying "died instantly" without adding that cause is unencyclopedic, in sounding like the gentle lies sometimes told to surviving relatives. Destruction, or severe damage, of the brain, by application of force or by radiant energy (probably a nuclear weapon) can reasonably be described as "instant"; IIRC the 2nd fastest cause of death is following a total bleedout (or i suppose decapitation), and takes something like 3 additional seconds. (No comment on likelihood of consciousness between the trauma and death.) _ _ Hmm, even if it crushed his skull (instead of legs or chest, which is far more plausible) the car was moving slowly enuf not to be immediately noticed -- a few inches per second. Having your skull crushed at that rate is IMO nothing like such instant deaths as "swallowing" a handgun (that configuration ensures total disruption of the brainstem) or hitting your head on your windshield at 88 feet per second, and then on a bridge abutment at 80 fps. _ _ BTW, do we really know he left it in gear? I suppose so, if it was a manual shift (but i think the original mentioned "park" (implying automatic), tho that deserves better verification) but this sounds like it was unwitnessed (inside the garage and unaccompanied), and some automatics can slip out of park. --Jerzy•t 21:17, 23 September 2005 (UTC)