Lorenzo Thomas is a boxer who became shot inside the head with a stray bullet in 2013, but despite his injury, he has nevertheless inspired human beings through his hard paintings in boxing.
Lorenzo Thomas was shot within the head in 2013 with a stray bullet and left with impaired motor talents.
Thomas has recently been trending on social media after movies emerged of him taking on boxing for rehabilitation.
After being shot in the head with a stray bullet, Lorenzo has taken up boxing to help with his recovery and rehabilitation process 👏
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— ESPN (@espn) February 24, 2021
Who is boxer Lorenzo Thomas?
In his interview, Thomas described the time he was shot in 2013 along with the sentence “some bad company.”
He said that “They didn’t really see that I was a good person” and the injuries he suffered were a result of “bad timing” and being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
When Thomas entered the boxing gym in West Hempstead, New York, he seemed drunk. Michael Corleone thought he seemed drunk when he first walked into the gym and had moved to object.
“When he first came in the door, he comes in with a walker, struggling,” Corleone said.
“The amount of effort that he gave me that day was really unbelievable, I was speechless.”
In an endearing moment Corleone tells his student that: “One day we’ve got to sit down and go through your Instagram and see how much love you get from all over the world.”
The count of retweets for the video posted by ESPN on boxer Lorenzo Thomas’s comeback is increasing with four thousand upvotes now. Many viewers are inspired and hopeful that a similar outcome can be achieved for them.
