Vinny Paz

Vinny Paz is, to me, the purest embodiment of resilience in modern boxing. A world champion at both lightweight and light middleweight from Cranston, Rhode Island, he is best remembered for refusing to accept defeat after breaking his neck in a car crash. Doctors said he might never walk normally, yet he returned to the ring, a saga immortalized in the film Bleed for This. His 1991 Comeback of the Year award barely captures the sheer stubbornness involved. At only 171 centimeters he reached the summit through will alone, and his story still teaches me how unbreakable the human spirit can be.

Name (English)

Vinny Paz

Name (Japanese)

ビニー・パジェンサ

Reading

びにー・ぱじぇんさ

Born

December 16, 1962 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Tiger

Origin

Cranston, Rhode Island, United States

Height

171 cm

Occupation

boxer

High school

Cranston High School East

Awards & achievements

• 1991 The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year
• IBF World Lightweight Champion
• WBA World Super Welterweight Champion
• IBO World Super Middleweight Champion

• Official sitehttps://vinnypaz.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/vinnie_paz
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinny%20Paz
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B5
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2527123

Tags

• Rhode Island
• boxer

Last updated

2026-06-19

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.