Police: Boxer was driving too fast for conditions

MARIETTA -- Police say boxer Paul Williams was driving his modified sport motorcycle too fast for conditions when he crashed into an embankment. <br /> <br /> His manager, George Peterson, said the boxer was paralyzed and has no movement from the waist down after Sunday's crash in Marietta, northwest of Atlanta. <br /> <br /> Peterson said the 30-year-old athlete severed his spinal cord after falling on his back and head when he was thrown from his motorcycle. <br /> <br /> Marietta police said in a statement Tuesday morning that Williams was driving at a high rate of speed which was too fast for conditions. Police say he could not negotiate a curve, and the bike slammed into the embankment. <br /> <br /> Williams, a fighter known as ``The Punisher,'' is from Aiken, S.C. He was in metro Atlanta to attend his brother's wedding.

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