Full details on Briggs' condition / corner, ref should've pulled him out

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HAMBURG - While the 14 500 spectators at the sold-out O2 Arena in Hamburg, her ring gladiator Vitali Klitschko in frenetically celebrated him of his previous strike bombing campaign against challenger Shannon Briggs homage if, played out a drama into the catacombs. One of Briggs coaches came storming back into the hall. "We need a doctor! Quick! "Briggs had collapsed in the doping control had to be supported by two security guards. Ring doctor Stephen Bock studied the 38-year-old immediately. "Briggs was uncoordinated, dizzy and very sleepy. There were some neurological disorders, "said Bock.

Briggs was placed on a stretcher in the hall, with the blue light ambulance raced to the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf. There, the shocking diagnosis: Briggs has in the fight several fractures in the midface, in particular, suffered two orbits, he is in intensive care, may receive no visitors. "There is no danger to life, and he is responsive. Fortunately, he has probably suffered no brain hemorrhage, "Bock said Sunday of AZ," but we are talking about a very badly injured man”

"Blood and pain," Klitschko had promised before the fight Briggs - but he had not meant. As Klitschko heard of the terrible diagnosis, he immediately went to the hospital. "I am very concerned," said Klitschko, "I myself could not believe what he has pocketed all. I wish him well and hope that he very quickly feel better. "
In the ring, just before the dramatic collapse, Briggs had Klitschko beat violence praised. "I was standing in the ring with Lennox Lewis, I boxed against George Foreman. Klitschko is by far the best fighter, with whom I had ever faced. He hits harder than Foreman. Its impact is almost unbelievable.

This impact, the vast amounts of right and left of the Klitschko are taken on the skull of the Rasta's were Briggs, in the end even for the spectators almost painful. But no one intervened. Bock: "I as a physician would have preferred if the fight had been broken off, if they had said after the tenth round, now it's over. The long-term consequences are foreseeable in not so many hard blows. "

But neither Bock, according to the regulations of the WBC, the possibility would have been present to the referee the red card, with which he encourages the demolition, nor Referee Ian John-Lewis (see interview), nor Briggs' corner put the health of the fighter first.

Klitschko's coach Fritz Sdunek who has his 109th World Championship match played as a coach does, serious allegations against the corner of Briggs. "I have a coach gegnerischem Briggs already been sorry. I would have asked the people on the boxer and thrown in the towel when one of my protégés have so plugged beatings, "said Sdunek," I did not think that such brutal guys are in his corner, happen to be just what was going on. Vitali has to hide what can happen there. But people in the corner to protect you. But they are there. "

On Saturday no one was there to protect Briggs. A collective failure of all those responsible would have almost led to a further death in the boxing drama. One can only hope that the drama is not about Briggs to tragedy and that it draws lessons from the failures and consequences.

 

From Rafael: Shannon Briggs displayed enormous heart during his lopsided loss to heavyweight titlist Vitali Klitschko on Saturday, and it landed him in the hospital.

Klitschko hit the former two-time titleholder repeatedly with flush right hands almost at will throughout his title-retaining shutout decision in Hamburg, but Briggs would not go down.

Now, he is in Hamburg's Eppendorf University Hospital with a broken left orbital bone in his face, a broken nose and a torn left biceps, Empire Sports and Entertainment promoter Greg Cohen told ESPN.com.

"He was banged up pretty bad," Cohen said, shortly after arriving back in New York on Sunday. "The CT scan came back normal, thank God. Shannon wants to get out of there as soon as possible, but he'll be there for a little bit longer. He's devastated. He really thought he was going to win."

Cohen said the biceps injury was the most severe.

"His biceps is a very serious injury and they have to do surgery, and he'll probably be there for a week," Cohen said. "It might require more than one surgery."

Cohen said rumors that Briggs, 38, had suffered a brain hemorrhage were not true and that he was resting at the hospital and had even joked around with him before he left Germany.

"I wouldn't be here [in New York] if he wasn't OK," Cohen said. "He was in intensive care after the fight for precautionary reasons. The injuries are not life-threatening. He's just banged up, but it's not life-threatening or very serious. Other than the injuries I described, everything else is OK.

"He walked out of the arena on his own. They wanted to put him on as stretcher, but he wouldn't let them. He's going to be fine."

Klitschko, 39, dominated all 12 rounds, but after about the seventh round the fight became a brutal beatdown. Klitschko (41-2, 38 KOs), with the best knockout percentage in heavyweight title history, continued to pound Briggs (51-6-1, 45 KOs), but neither the referee, Ian John Lewis, nor Briggs' trainers, Herman Caicedo and Eddie Mustafa Muhammad, stopped the fight.

Cohen wishes they would have.

"He trained for this. He was 100 percent ready mentally and physically, but I wish they would have stopped it around the eighth round," Cohen said. "I love Shannon. He's like family to me. As a human being, he is much more important to me than as an athlete. So it was tough to watch. But Shannon did not want them stopping this fight. I wish they didn't listen to him, but I understand. I spoke to his corner after one of the rounds and Shannon was telling him, 'I'm OK, I'm going to get him.' Even after the 11th round, he thought he was still going to do it. His will was never broken. If I was in the corner, I would have stopped it. But I'm the promoter, not the cornerman.

"I don't blame the referee at all. The referee did a good job. And I don't blame the corner. I understand, but my preference would have been for it to be stopped."