Former heavyweight boxer, David Bey dies at a construction site.
David Bey, a former top-ranked heavyweight boxer from Philadelphia who lost to Larry Holmes in a championship fight in 1985, was killed on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017, in an industrial accident while working on a construction site on the Camden, N.J., waterfront.
The 60 year old Bey was a pile driver with Local Carpenter’s 179 and according to a report by 6ABC, Bey was working at the Camden Towers construction site on Cooper Street when he was hit with a steel sheet.