****er wrote down how ****ed Mago is and then had the audacity to end it with: "He is still Mago." No, you mother****er! They way you described his situation made me think of if its not better to end the mans suffering. Hauser you damn ********! I didn't know Mago was mentally gone. Hauser basically described a vegetable. I was hoping he had damage similar to Ali, where the body doesn't respond but the mind is still there.
Mago was one of my favorite heavy comming up...Very hard for me to read this...Like Chitownfightfan said earlier Wilder should take a look at this and shut the **** up next time.
Just very unfortunate circumstances. The money is good for his family but no substitute for the dude's health.
Kinda makes you wish the U.S. would have an authority like the BBBofC. They dont tolerate such nonsense. https://www.sportskeeda.com/boxing/froch-sorry-for-kessler-kill-threat And Wilder wonders why hes not a big superstar.
That's more or less what the case was 2-3 years ago.... Unless major developments in there area of neuroscience are made in the next 20-30 years and made available to the public - Mago and others in situations like his will be stuck that way for the rest of their lives. It's a damn sham... I had always hoped for the best after one of the doctors overseeing him had said he was confident that Mago would improve significantly albeit with a lot of impairment. The NYSAC dropped the ball hard here.... They failed Mago during the fight and afterwards by not providing him proper transportation to the hospital. Had they fallen procedure he may have been able to come out the things like Blackwell did against Eubank Jr.
That was strange way to end that article, which was a pretty short crappy article to be fair. Why bother to go to someones house if thats all you are going to write? Lazy fkn scribe.
Boxing, like everything else in life, operates in a giant circle. Just like the medics failed to get the G-Man appropriate and timely medical attention in the UK after the Benn bout back in the 90's, so did another epic **** up occur just a few years ago in the States to doom poor Mago to the current life he has to live... Boxing is honestly terrible sometimes, it's a shame that after all this time there still isn't consistent readily available medical care at every boxing event and it's creeping up on the year 2020....
And while Mago was among the higher-profile cases his wasn't anomalous by any means. Roman Simakov, a disturbingly high concentration of small-hall UK fighters in the last few years... We're still riddled with casualties of which a sizable portion, one has to imagine, are more preventable in theory. (while acknowledging that yes, in a 'punch each other in the head' game, some degree of brain damage is just going to be in the vig despite all the best & most vigilant preparatory efforts)
I think his case is a little bit more unique in the sense of how inept the commission was in failing to provide medical attention after the fight. The fact that they had to hitch a cab to the hospital is beyond disgraceful.
Dude. Simakov was sent out for about 2-3 rounds beyond the point where any ringside physician in the USA would hop on the apron waving their arms saying "that's enough". He was then dragged from the ring in a plastic orange makeshift bodybag. I'd say there was a bit of ineptness that day in Russia.