The Greatest Boxing Comeback Ever: Vinny Pazienza! One of my biggest motivation from boxing world! The man who broke his neck in a fatal car accident while he was at the peak of his career with two-weight world championship belts, yet emerged from his death-bed to be the world champion again. So when he was hospitalised and he got his consciousness back in the hospital a few weeks later, he had a cage-like contraption called a ‘halo’ drilled into his skull with four long sharp bolts. The doctors told him he would be lucky if he could walk, and that boxing was definitely out of the question and doing other things was advisable. To which Pazienza replied: “Doctor, you’re wrong – you don’t understand what kind of man I am.”