‘If He’s Not Dead..’- When Andre Agassi’s Boxer Father Got Enraged and Brutally Attacked a Truckdriver Over a Silly Traffic Rule

From being a lost boy from Los Angeles to one of the most well-known tennis players, Andre Agassi has made his own name in the world. However, his father played a big role in this transformation process. In his memoir, the tennis star talked about his father in various aspects. However, like any other normal kid, the young Agassi feared his father. In his memoir, he detailed the incident, recalling the fear in his eyes.

In his elevated career, the tennis star won 7 grand slam titles and has tasted his bite of success. The former Olympic boxer from Iran, Agassi’s dad, was one of the biggest supporters of the tennis player during his initial days. 

Andre Agassi recalled a horrifying incident, including his father

Agassi, in his autobiography, mentioned several times about his father’s anger and how he was scared a lot by his father’s anger at times. However, he also detailed one such incident, which displayed his father’s boxer front. In his early childhood days, when he used to accompany his father to pick up his mother, the tennis star’s dad picked up a little heat on his way over a little traffic mishap.

The incident was a driving miscommunication that took place between the truck driver and Agassi’s father. Agassi believed that the clash escalated in a way that the driver might be dead after his feud with his father. Agassi wrote, “My father approaches the trucker. The trucker throws a punch. My father ducks deflect the punch with the top of his head, then throws a blazingly fast combination, ending with an uppercut. The trucker is lying on the pavement. He’s dead—I’m sure of it. If he’s not dead, he soon will be, because he’s in the middle of the road and someone will run him over.” 

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However, according to the tennis player, his father gave him a deadly stare and asked him not to tell his mother about the horrifying incident.

Young Andre Agassi hated tennis

Back when the former tennis player was 7 years old, he felt like he was kept hostage-tied up to the sport. In his autobiography, the eight-time Grand Slam champion detailed how the young version of him never wanted to pursue tennis as a career. But somehow he found a way to do so.

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These were the times when the American tennis player wanted to put down his racket and walk right away. However, he knew his father would chase him around the house and won’t let him quit the sport. The former world number one specifically mentioned that he hated the sport with all his heart but still kept playing.