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Terrel Williams’ Facebook posts disappear after years of abuse over Prichard Colón’s fight

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Terrel Williams and Prichard Colón exchange punches during their 2015 fight

Terrel Williams’ Facebook posts disappeared after years of abuse and threats in connection with his fight with Prichard Colón.

The disappearance removes the only public portal through which fans can indirectly reach Williams.

World Boxing News has been documenting the inactive page for years, and the same Facebook account repeatedly became a breeding ground for abuse, threats and calls for punishment after a 2015 fight that left Colón with indefinite injuries.

It is unclear whether Williams deleted the posts himself, whether Facebook took action due to the scale of the abuse, or whether other moderation or visibility issues caused the material to disappear. What’s clear is that the site became the only place Colón’s furious supporters believed they could still find Williams online.

Williams does not have an busy presence on social media. This absence has turned the Facebook page into little more than just an aged profile. It has become an archive of blame and, for many, the only place to express their views on one of the most damaging evenings in up-to-date boxing.

Facebook posts disappear

Over the years, WBN reported that Williams’ page attracted comments from Colón supporters who never accepted the outcome of the fight in Fairfax, Virginia.

Messages ranged from direct threats and demands for prison to revenge or worse.

WBN first documented the abuse in 2021, with the comments section already being used as a vent by fans enraged over Williams’ role in the fight.

The hostility has not abated. In 2024, WBN reported on further threats against Williams, including calls for punishment and accusations that he had never been properly held accountable.

The situation escalated in 2025. WBN later described how Williams was told to “heal in hell” and then reported a murder threat against Williams and his family as the site remained evident but unused by Williams.

Now, after years of being an obvious site of this hostility, the posts are no longer displayed.

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Only the portal remains

Whatever caused the disappearance, the result is the same: the one outlet that Colón’s fans needed to get to Williams is no longer evident in the same way.

Williams remained out of the public eye for years, retiring from boxing in 2019 and failing to rebuild any public profile around the tragedy. WBN has previously tried to track down people associated with Williams and reported how tough it was to find him after the Colón fight.

Without interviews, novel statements or an busy platform from Williams, Colón’s supporters rallied around a social media channel still associated with him.

Some of that anger crossed the line, turning into harsh insults from people who saw no punishment, no resolution, no answer to what had happened to a juvenile fighter who was once tipped for world title success.

Pity Williams

The entries also included Williams’ remorse.

WBN documented how Williams later expressed sadness, with the player stating that he couldn’t enjoy the victory and was worried about Colón as his condition became critical.

Williams said after the fight that there was never any intention to employ soiled tactics and that the events surrounding the fight were not born out of malice or hatred. He also said he was praying for Colón and had been advised not to visit the hospital out of respect for the family’s privacy.

Although WBN documents its sadness over the incident and Williams’ apology, the nature of Colón’s injuries leaves enraged fans little room to maneuver.

There is no compensation for them, whether Williams apologizes or not, that would erase those shots to the back of the head that proved so significant.

An apology may exist, but it will not restore what was taken from Colón. It doesn’t give Puerto Rico the world title many believe it was destined for. It doesn’t undo the night that ruined the family.

A fight that never healed

The October 2015 fight remains one of boxing’s deepest wounds.

Colón was an emerging fighter from Puerto Rico with charisma, talent and an edge that made people believe he was heading towards a world title. Instead, the Williams fight became a nightmare of fouls, confusion, rabbit-bashing accusations and regulatory errors.

Williams was deducted a point for blows to the back of the head. Colón was docked for a low blow. Colón’s corner mistakenly believed the fight was over after the ninth round and removed his gloves, resulting in a disqualification defeat.

Shortly thereafter, Colón collapsed and was diagnosed with severe brain damage. He remained in a coma for many months and has since required long-term care.

The lasting damage suffered by Colón and his family is too profound for many to ever forgive the course of this fight, in which Puerto Rico was robbed of a certain world champion and his family was devastated in the process.

This pain is why fans have never fully let go. Williams’ regret doesn’t cancel out the punches. His absence from the public eye doesn’t make up for the damage, and the disappearance of aged posts doesn’t end the anger that has built up there.

Prichard Colon pictured recovering from a boxing injury
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Years of guilt

If the updates disappear for good, the public record has changed.

Over the years, the site showed what the Colón fight continued to do to people. It showed threats, language of revenge, regret and at times a level of violence that became disturbing in itself.

This apparent hostility may have disappeared from Facebook, but its cause remains.

Colón still lives with the consequences of the fight. His family continues to bear the costs. Williams is still associated with the night that changed both men’s lives.

Facebook posts may have disappeared. There was no reaction to the Prichard Colón fight – she simply lost her platform.


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Phil Jay is the editor-in-chief of World Boxing News (WBN) and a boxing veteran with over 15 years of experience. Read the full biography.

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Junto Nakatani vs Ramon Cardenas Set for February Showdown on DAZN

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Ronspo, though Yahoo! Japan, brings word of some interesting developments on the Japanese front. Per their update yesterdayU-NEXT’s as-yet unannounced NYE show will feature four-division champion Kazuto Ioka, former flyweight champion Daigo Higa, and reigning WBA light flyweight champion Daiya Kira, who will move up to 112 in a bid to become a two-weight champion in just his sixth pro fight.

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Anthony Yarde Positioned for WBC Title Shot Following Benavidez Knockout Defeat

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Anthony Yarde was knocked out by David Benavidez and spent a full year on the shelf. Somehow, his reward could be an immediate crack at a world title. Frank Warren is considering using Yarde for Willy Hutchinson’s first WBC light heavyweight title defense in March, effectively granting him championship access without the burden of winning an eliminator.

Hutchinson had to go through the fire with Joshua Buatsi across two fights to capture the vacant belt. Yarde, meanwhile, might walk directly into the challenger’s corner coming off a stoppage defeat and twelve months of inactivity. What has Yarde done since Benavidez demolished him to justify cutting to the front of the line? Nothing inside the ring. His entire argument is built on name recognition and the equity of older wars.

Warren was open about the option on talkSPORT Boxing: “Anthony Yarde was in the ring. I don’t know where we’re going to go with that one. We’ll see if we can agree terms. That’s something we may consider as well.”

Casual British fight fans recognize Yarde from his past encounters with Benavidez, Artur Beterbiev, and Sergey Kovalev. That name value makes him infinitely simpler to sell to television buyers than a high-risk contender like Albert Ramirez. If the WBC blesses a voluntary defense and numbers make sense, Warren converts Hutchinson’s hard-won triumph into a profitable domestic event. If Hutchinson retains, he collects a marquee domestic scalp. If Yarde pulls it off, Warren crowns a long-tenured in-house headliner.

The timing also plays directly into Hutchinson’s hands. Yarde carries sufficient power to make Hutchinson pay if he retreats into the ropes, but Hutchinson possesses the footwork to keep Yarde turning. Forcing Yarde to reset his base prevents him from sitting down on heavy bursts. As the rounds wear on, Yarde faces the grueling reality of sustaining hard combination punching over twelve rounds after such a protracted layoff.

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Danny Garcia Reveals Top Three Punchers Faced in 42 Fight Career

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Danny Garcia has faced a plethora of dangerous punchers, including Errol Spence Jr, yet ‘The Truth’ is not even considered among his hardest-hitting opponents.

Instead, ‘Swift’ claims he experienced more pronounced power against Keith Thurman, who he faced in his first WBC world welterweight title defence in 2017.

Ultimately, Garcia lost a split decision after giving a strong account of himself, before losing another tight verdict against Shawn Porter the following year.

The American was then presented with a second chance to reclaim his WBC belt in 2020, only to suffer a clear unanimous decision defeat against Spence.

But while Thurman was perhaps the biggest puncher he faced at 147lbs, the power was on another level when Garcia challenged WBA middleweight champion Erislandy Lara in 2024.

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“I would say Matthysse, Thurman and Lara might be the biggest punchers I’ve faced. I don’t know if it was my layoff, or whatever, but every time [Lara] hit me, I felt it.

“I don’t know if it was the layoff or the weight, but he was strong.”

Defending his WBC title down at 140lbs, Garcia unanimously outpointed Matthysse in 2013 after scoring an 11th-round knockdown in what was a largely competitive contest.

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