Aidos Yerbossynuly in a coma after last nights loss to Morrell

Yup. Spot on. It was crazy. There were multiple people with multiple chances to stop it. The Chief Second has a lot of responsibility. And one of those is to to protect their fighter from themselves. If you can’t do that you shouldn’t be the head trainer. There was no reason for this to unfold the way it has. Chief Second, Dr., and Weeks all bear responsibility for Yerbo’s condition. F’n disgusting.

 

Please get well

 

I hope Yerbossynuly makes a rapid recovery

 

I've been looking for updates but can't seem to find any , hoping this young fella makes a full recovery .
By the sounds of it he recieved on the spot medical attention ( the golden hour ) & put into an induced coma .

 

Fingers crossed he makes a good recovery

 

Controversial as it is to say but Aidos Yerbossynuly himself had a part to play, a boxer should be communicating with his corner, we can see externally how a fighter is, but there is only one person who knows what they are feeling internally, that is not however taking away from what we all have said that the ref/corner should have intervened earlier.

Perhaps there is a place for banning cameras filming boxers in their corners, so more open dialogue can be had between fighter and team, a boxer should be able to say "No Mas" to their team or be able to tell team of health issue without being seen to publicly quit, or even just highlight issue they do not want opponent to be aware of in next round.

 

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it also serves as a reminder that boxing isn't a game, hopefully OAP boxers making comebacks and youtubers take note

 

I wouldn't say your take is controversial, but I do disagree with it.

The fighter has one job to do, and that's be a warrior. Yerbossynuly was conscientious and dutiful to an A+++ degree.

 

Indeed the boxers one job is to be a warrior and Aidos exhibited that to the fullest extent.

My point was if Aidos or indeed any fighter was experiencing issues, then that needs to be communicated to his corner, yes boxers are warriors, and showing bravado, a poker face etc to your opponent is advised.

But if a boxer is unwilling to tell his team who he trusts and are like a second family, that there is an issue, be that broken his hand which is a non visible injury inside the glove, (pointless a corner continuously telling a fighter between rounds to stick with game plan, of keeping opponent on end of his left jab for the whole 12 rounds, if unknown to them he has broken his left hand in the first round), through to him experiencing non visible symptoms of possible brain trauma but not saying to the team, then there is a issue.

I am sure many of us who have taken part in combat/contact sports have had our brains rattled big time, and refused to admit/concede we are not ok, I sure have, I was not going to admit i was even hurt yet my vision was messed up, my coordination was gone, was nauseous, had headache etc etc, but we were lucky and no acute crisis eg coma/death occurred.
Things have thankfully improved, and admitting brains are rattled is now seen as ok, get head injury/neuro assessment done, and either ok to go back into battle, or withdrawn from field of combat.

So to i am not putting blame on Aidos, but if each of those present, ref, corner and Adios had been more proactive, then his present sad health state may not have happened.

No one can predict the effect of getting punched in the head, you have Jake La Motta who had 100+ pro bouts and lived to his late 90s with no obvious neuro deficits yet Wilfredo Benitez succumbed massively to CTE and neuro issues from his 30s.

If we want to minimise such events that happened to Adios, then we have to have change, both practically, eg perhaps medics should have stronger powers to act independently rather than just at request of officials during a bout, through to a accepted ethos that corners, refs and boxers can say bout is over without the labels of too early a stoppage, he quit etc etc being thrown at them.

Overall we have to accept getting punched in the head is not healthy, minimise risk where can but at end of day sad events will occur, both acutely as in Adios case, through to chronic effects that afflict boxers after their careers are over.

As Joe Frazier is quoted as saying:
"Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertakers book"

 

There you go. But you may have shown signs of it, and that was for whoever was supervising to pick up on.

I respect where you're coming from, though.

 

This is a really smart and thoughtful post. I would've never considered this and it makes a lot of sense.

 

As we know the 70s were not the age of cerebral damage wisdom regarding sport.

Good job Aidos is getting 2022 hospital care rather than from decades past, lessons can be learned after bad incidents such as the improvements in ringside medical support after the Michael Watson vs Eubank bout where Watson got brain injured.

Aidos you fought for the title and glory, now is the time to channel that fighting warrior spirit into battling for your health.