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Terrel Williams’ Facebook posts disappear after years of abuse over Prichard Colón’s fight
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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.
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.
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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Teddy Atlas revealed who he thinks will be the next huge boxing star.
Atlas knows a thing or two about helping discover major stars, having worked with a newborn Mike Tyson early in his career and also training fighters like Michael Moorer and Tim Bradley.
In addition to his training career, Atlas has also become an extremely respected analyst, which is why boxing fans always respect his expert knowledge of the sport.
With that in mind, Atlas revealed who he believes has what it takes to become one of boxing’s next flagship stars: newly crowned WBO super middleweight champion Hamzah Sheeraz.
On Saturday, Sheeraz became world champion for the first time he knocked out the unannounced Alem Begić in two rounds to secure vacant title in the pyramids of Giza in Egypt.
Although Atlas was critical of the duel, he published on social media praised Sheeraz and gave him numerous successes.
“The way these organizations put fighters into title fights is truly absurd, but Sheeraz did what he had to do and got rid of him quickly. He’s the next star in the sport!”
Sheeraz has won 23 of his 24 fights, 19 of them by knockout, with his only blemish coming when he drew with Carlos Adames for the WBC middleweight title in February 2025.
Since moving up to 168 pounds, Sheeraz has looked extremely impressive and could be ready for a fight with Canelo Alvarez in the future, but first the Mexican superstar challenges Christian Mbilla for the WBC super middleweight title in September.
Canelo Alvarez says a fight with David Benavidez is now “impossible” because the former WBC interim super middleweight champion has moved up to lightweight heavyweight.
In the interview, Canelo defended himself against years of criticism from fans who believed he avoided Benavidez when he weighed 168 pounds.
“When we were both 168 pounds, I fought every champion in that division. Why didn’t he ever fight those champions? If he was the champion at that point, I fight him.
My goal was to be undisputed. At the moment this is simply impossible. He can fight heavyweights,” Canelo said @InsideRingShow.
The clarification was immediately met with criticism from fans, many of whom noted that Benavidez had only moved up one weight class to 175 pounds after years of chasing a super middleweight fight.
Others have noted that Canelo himself has already moved up to lightweight heavyweight in the past for fights with Dmitry Bivol and Sergei Kovalev. Terence Crawford also jumped two divisions from 154 to 168 after his recent fight with Canelo, leaving some fans unable to accept the size argument.
Benavidez maintained interim status with the WBC for years, repeatedly calling for a fight with Canelo at 168 pounds. Instead, Canelo went in different directions, fighting opponents such as Edgar Berlanga, Jaime Munguia, John Ryder and William Scull.
Now that Benavidez has won the titles at 175, Canelo argues that the fight no longer makes sense due to the weight difference. For many fans, the timing of this explanation will only reignite the debate as to why the fight never happened while both fighters were still in the same division.
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World champion waiting for Naoya Inoue’s last move at the weight: “He could fight me first”
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The featherweight world champion believes his marketing potential in Japan will be enough to secure a lucrative clash with Naoya Inoue.
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It was an elegant performance that saw Inoue claim a unanimous decision victory, with fans now clamoring for him to face unified super flyweight king Jessy “Bam” Rodriguez.
During Rodriguez’s next appearance June 13 against WBA champion Antonio VargasThe 26-year-old will move up to 118 pounds and try to become a world champion in three weight classes.
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