Fighter Daniele Scardina is in a coma.

Tail end of his career for sure (the infamous fishnet pics were 2007) but I'm not sure about his prime in the late 90's.

 

Yeah,considering eho he was and is I dont think it s far fetched he was doing it in the 90s aswell.
He was partying like crazy aswell then but there was no social media then.

 

Horrible news.

I wish him and his family all the best.

 

Very sad. Hope he pulls through

 

The real reason is the abuse of everything.
Weight cute,parties,coke,binge eating-all that excess isnt good and someone with a weak ticker might sadly find themselves in this state.
Hope he pulls thru.

 

This guy took a vicious ass whooping. Who was his opponent? seems pretty good

 

**** yes!

 

Sometimes you just wish guys had the capacity/ability to get a real job outside the ring once things start getting scary in the ring in regards to brain injuries. Boxing is not forever.

 

Probably got the ability but not the sort of money they are use too.

 

Human body is wonderfully durable and equally wonderfully fragile. Sometimes a tiny rock hitting the right spot could make you brain dead but a baseball bat to the head might just give you a concussion

 

Indeed so, but i will not be putting the latter to the test, as if someone is intent at swinging a baseball bat to my cranium then it is likely they would not be satisfied with just that one home run.

Talking of such matters Jake LaMotta mugged a neighbourhood bookie, who he knew carried his day’s takings, and attacked him so savagely with a piece of lead piping, that he was convinced he had killed him.

Years later, when “the ghost” as LaMotta described him turned up in his dressing room, still bearing the scars of the attack, to offer his congratulations after LaMotta had won the world middleweight title from Cerdan that “the Bronx bull” realised he was not a murderer after all.

 

Exactly this. Human neurology is so little understood even with modern technological advancements in medicine, and honestly - it will always be a little bit unpredictable no matter how sophisticated we get. There's always going to be that chaos factor, it's just part & parcel of being us and having such complex (in terms of both the intricacy of internal circuitry and its widely varied responsiveness to stimuli) little gobs of grey matter powering our psyches.

That's why it annoys me when idiots see a weird looking KO and quickly jump off their couch or flock to forums like this or Twitter and declare "I've never in all my life seen a knockout like that, so that proves it was a DIVE/FIX!"

Like...no, dummy, you've just never happened to have seen a human react that way to being struck in the head before. There are trillions of different ways blunt force cephalic trauma can present. Even someone that's watched as much boxing as I have can not claim to have seen all of the iterations, and most fans haven't seen 1% as much boxing as I have.

I always think of the JMM vs. Likar Ramos debacle, over 90% of the internet boxing community instantly went into a group-think frenzy and convinced themselves it was a "fake, staged" fight when really - Likar Ramos just fell weird. It happens.

Punches that don't seem like they ought to do catastrophic damage sometimes obliterate guys, or at least drop them despite their reputation for strong chins (see the long moronically mislabeled Ali-Liston "phantom punch", that very clearly did land if you watch the slowed down film). Likewise, sometimes you see a fighter eat a bomb that looks as though it ought to keel a horse, but he shakes it off. Life isn't a video game, there's no set parameters and human neuro responses are not cookie-cutter replicable.