Russian boxer Maxim Dadashev dies at 28 from injuries sustained during weekend bout

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And here's a clip of trainer/cornerman Buddy McGirt, an accomplished fighter himself, urging Dadashev to quit during his fight over the weekend.

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Dadashev was placed in a medically induced coma after his loss to Subriel Matias in an IBF junior welterweight title eliminator bout. Dadashev underwent surgery at UM Prince George’s Hospital Center, Maryland, for bleeding on the brain. On Saturday, doctors at the hospital said the fighter had suffered severe brain damage and his death was confirmed on Tuesday.

Matias and Dadashev’s fight was brutal and was stopped by McGirt after the 11th round, when he decided his fighter had taken too much damage. Dadashev shook his head when McGirt told him he was stopping the fight. “If I don’t, the referee’s gonna do it. C’mon, Max. Please,” McGirt said. At that point McGirt told the ringside doctor and referee he was throwing in the towel.

“I saw him fading and when he came back to the corner [after the 11th round], my mind was already made up,” McGirt said on Tuesday. “I was just asking him out of respect, but my mind was made up. I wasn’t going to let him go out there.”

Dadashev collapsed and started vomiting on the way back to the locker room and left the arena on a stretcher.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/23/maxim-dadashev-russian-boxer-dies-injuries-fight

[sdfernando]

1. Boxing is a brutal sport.

I will never understand why anyone wants to do that.

[customerserviceguy]

2. And the trend line is getting worse

Now, people shell out big bucks for pay-per-view bouts that don't even have boxing's rules governing them. Look at the rise of UFC if you don't believe that.

[stopdiggin]

3. mostly it's about climbing out of the hole

I've pointed out to my family, and others, that you don't see a lot of upper income participation. That's more than coincidental. This wasn't always the case (at one point boxing was fashionable with the upper class nobs), but the story is completely different now. It's kind of a (self)exploitation of the lower classes. And been that way for a good while. It's still seen as a way out (and perhaps some status). In most cases that is a cruel hoax. And the toll taken is very sad.

You can see the very beginnings of the same sort of trend (toward avoidance) in US football. A lot of suburban moms and dads would just as soon their kids were playing something else.