Real Drama Series : Rocky Lockridge

Rocky Lockridge will be featured in a reality drama show in A&E at 9pm. This show is a documentary, cameras will be following him as he struggle in his problem every day. He will be intervened by relatives offering help to overcome his problems.






Rocky Lockridge is an addict of drugs and alcohol and lived in a sidewalk in Camden. He was also separated with his son and not seeing him for 15 years now. He was a former Junior Lightweight Boxing Champion. He was confined in Palmetto Addiction Recovery Center in Rayville, La. for rehabilitation. It lasted up to 3 months.

Rocky Lockridge sits high on a stoop, giving himself a lofty view of the intersection of 7th Street and Chestnut in Camden.

In the midst of it all, a brown sedan stops, the car idling in the middle of the street. A middle-age man gets out and quick-steps to the top of the stoop to greet Lockridge with a fist bump and a quick man-hug. After a few quiet words, he gets back into the car and drives off.

The Champ looks out across the familiar street corner, his head held high. But his face is swollen by scar tissue around the eyes and more than one tooth is missing. A silver metal four-prong walking cane he now needs to walk is balanced across his knees.

The struggle is living on the streets of Camden, where Lockridge has been for more than 10 years. It has been a long way to fall for a two-time world boxing champion.

Lockridge, who climbed the rankings while fighting out of Ice World in Totowa from 1978-81, has no money. His body tilts to one side when he walks, the result of a stroke he says he suffered three years ago. His scraggly, graying beard makes him seem far older than 50, the age he reached on Jan. 30.

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