Okay, so I heard this thing floating around, you know, about Bud Crawford getting shot in the head. Sounds absolutely insane, right? Like something out of a movie. So, naturally, I had to kinda dig into it myself, see what the real story was. It wasn’t like some deep investigation, just me trying to piece together what actually happened from bits here and there.
First thing I figured out, this wasn’t something recent. This actually went down way back, I think it was 2008, long before he became the big undisputed champ everyone knows now. He was still just a young guy in Omaha.
Finding Out the Details
So, how did it happen? From what I gathered, it wasn’t some big planned hit or anything dramatic like that. It sounds like it started from something much more common, unfortunately.
- He was apparently involved in a street dice game. You know how those things can get.
- An argument broke out. Tempers flared.
- Next thing you know, someone pulls out a gun and shoots.
The bullet apparently grazed the right side of his head. It didn’t penetrate his skull, thank God, but it went clean through the back window of the car he was sitting in. Just thinking about how close that was… wild.
The Craziest Part
Now, here’s the bit that really got me when I was looking into this. What do you do after getting shot in the head, even if it’s a graze? Most people would be in shock, waiting for an ambulance, right? Not Bud.
He drove himself to the hospital.
Let that sink in. Got shot near the brain, and his first instinct was to get himself help, driving while bleeding. That tells you something about his mindset, his toughness. It’s a different level of grit altogether. It wasn’t just luck; the dude refused to go down.
It puts his boxing career in a different light, too, doesn’t it? Knowing he literally survived that, survived the streets he came from. Makes you understand that calmness and focus he has in the ring maybe comes from facing real danger outside it. It’s not just talk; he’s lived through some serious stuff.
So yeah, that was my little dive into that story. Started with a headline, ended up finding out about a crazy incident that showed the kind of person Crawford was even back then. Just sharing what I found out through my own looking around. Pretty unbelievable stuff.
