Former welterwight champion Williams paralyzed after motorcycle crash

PAUL WILLIAMS, TWICE welterweight champion, has been paralyzed from the waist down and is unlikely to walk again after a road accident in Atlanta.

The 30-year-old severed his spinal cord when he came off his motorbike on Sunday.

Williams was on his way to his brother’s wedding at the time.

He was scheduled to meet Saul Alvarez in Las Vegas’ MGM Grand on September 17 but will now have surgery on Wednesday in an attempt to get him moving his body from the waist up again.

“They’re saying he won’t walk again or box again,” William’s trainer George Peterson said on ESPN.com. “Paul is in denial right now. It’s been that way with him.

You tell him he can’t or won’t do something, and he wants to prove you different.

So whatever the doctors say, he’s not listening. But they say that (walking and boxing) is not going to happen.”

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