Maxim Dadashev dies from injuries sustained

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I'm not sure Dadashev could verbalize anything at that point. He didn't say anything. I think he was just trying to process what he was feeling internally. McGirt, in the end, did the right thing. But I agree, it was a bit melodramatic. Buddy should have just spoken quietly to his fighter, getting close to him and told Max he had to stop it so he wouldn't take any more punishment. As to whether Max was stumbling, the last two rounds I thought he looked impaired getting back to the corner. He was not steady and I think the damage was done at that point. I think a competent doctor would have stepped in then. I think too many of these doctors are not authoritative enough. They don't want to let down the fans, the viewers, the fighters, etc. But that is their job and they need to more aggressively assert themselves in these situations.

 

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This is as much to do with weight manipulation as anything else. It's the specter that's coming back to haunt boxing over and over again.

 

i will be rooting for this exemplary young man from now on. i hope i get to pay for a ppv that he headlines some day.

 

You're absolutely correct, while McGirt was going through the commotion about stopping the fight, Maxim looked tuned out and dealing with what was going on internally with his brain and body.

Just a sad situation, but I'm hoping that something good comes out of it and that it awaken's boxing commissions to look into fighters like Maxim who struggled to make the weight and enter that ring not fully hydrated.
Boxing commissions have got to have doctors examine fighters right before they enter the ring and assure themselves the fighter is hydrated.

 

Some new information, which is quite shocking, frankly speaking... According to Denis "The Russian Bogatyr" Goltsov (https://www.sports.ru/tribuna/blogs/mmardoboi/2520148.html) approximately in 2007 (he didn't specify the exact year) Maxim lost consciousness and was taken to an intensive care unit. The doctors prohibited him from continue boxing.
But then, after some time, due to financial problems, Maxim decided to move to the US and continue as a professional boxer...

 

2007? So he was ..junior amateurs?

 

This that a credible source? I can’t speak Russian.

 

With new report coming out after the death, it seems Maxim shouldn't have been boxing at all.

 

RIP dude.

 

It is. It's not an editorial but rather a blog, but sports.ru is one of the biggest sports websites in Russia (allboxing.ru reposted it as well).
Denis Goltsov and Maxim Dadashev were in the same Saint Petersburg boxing team and also studied in the same university (Baltic State Technical University).

 

It seems like Goltsov is not completely correct with the year — it rather was 2008. In that year Dadashev (and Bivol as well, by the way) won the Russian boxing championship as a junior and Goltsov was the second.

 

That's a nice touch from jose