For a while there, former boxer Clifford Etienne turned his life around after being sent to prison for armed robbery, then being paroled in 1998. While he was locked up at Louisiana State Penitentiary and Winn and Dixon correctional centers, he took up boxing and got pretty darn good at it. In time, Etienne won the state prison boxing championship, according to WAFB 9, and his success continued after he was released because he fought professionally. Eventually, he racked up an impressive record of 29 wins, four losses, and two draws. He even fought Mike Tyson on Feb. 22, 2003, but got "knocked out."
Despite the loss, Etienne would probably refer to that time of his life as the "good old days," because just three years later, he was convicted of several charges, including attempted second-degree murder, after stealing nearly $2,000 from a check cashing business in Baton Rouge, La. ESPN reports that he also stole a couple of cars that were occupied by children at the time, and he tried to shoot two police officers, but his gun jammed.
During his trial, Etienne's legal team claimed that he was high on drugs while committing those crimes and couldn't discern right from wrong due to having brain trauma from boxing. The jury didn't buy it, however, and he was sentenced to 150 years behind bars. This sentence later got reduced to 105 years due to some sort of "technicality," per Sportscasting.
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