Former heavyweight boxing champ and 'Rocky V' star,Tommy Morrison, dead...after a long battle with AIDS

Tommy Morrison, former heavy weight champion and star of 'Rocky V' has died in a Nebraska hospital Sunday night ... after a long battle with AIDS.

Morrison was born in Arkansas and grew up in Oklahoma

In 1990 Morrison gained fame for starring in the movie "Rocky V" with Sylvester
Stallone, playing a rookie boxer training under Rocky Balboa.

In 1993 he took home a real title - World Boxing Organization heavyweight title- defeating George Foreman for the heavyweight championship.

He lost to Lennox Lewis in 1995.

Back in 1996 Morrison tested positive for HIV, thus ending his boxing career. He later denied having the disease or that it even existed.

Morrison had been in the hospital for several months battling an illness that his former manager Tony Holden who confirmed his death wouldn't specify. He died peacefully, his wife by his side.

He was 44.

 May his soul rest in peace.