How things like this can be allowed in boxing?

Brazilian heavyweight Irineu Beato Costa Junior was knocked out in the first round by Hussein Mumamed on September 14, 2019

On September 19, 2019, he fought Russian MMA star Abdulkerim Edilov who had his pro debut in boxing and, of course, was knocked out in one round again.

It's beyond my understanding how any boxing commisioner in his own mind can allow a fighter, who was just knocked out, have another fight 5 days after the KO loss

 

where was this, though?

 

The corruption in the sport is beyond comprehension. It has always been this ugly. If that's one thing you were able to catch, imagine the stuff we don't. No disrespect to Irineu's situation, but to this day I remain haunted regarding Tim Witherspoon's case.

 

I can only think because it’s expected in boxing to get KOd why they might be relaxed about.
I know in other sports such as Rugby or in cricket it’s treated with the upmost care if someone gets concussed.
The player has no say so in it and stopped from playing for a minimum of a few weeks.
It is classed as brain damage and they’re even looking at it in soccer where players are getting some brain damage fro heading the ball.

 

Yep. And you have idiots like Hearn who paid Johnson to fly to England for the fight lauding British boxing for being “safe” because they have oxygen ringside.

 

Because ultimately it's down to the commission. Many commissions wouldn't have sanctioned him period. But a lot of the eastern bloc countries, South America etc. are more lax. Danny Williams for example hasn't been able to get a licence from the BBBofC for years so he traveled to eastern europe or anywhere where he was allowed to fight. Nothing to be done about it. It is what it is.

 

I understand what everyone is saying but I also recognize that this is their livelihood and many fighters don't have a plan b after sports. If they don't fight then bills don't get paid and the guys mentioned have never seen a million dollars from boxing to even consider taking a break.

 

It's terrible on all sides. First it starts with the fighters themselves. This man could have said no. His manager, coach, could have said no. His promoter could have said no. Obviously, there wasn't a single good person associated with this man to help prevent him from fighting so soon.

 

I don't know about Tim's case. What has happened there?

 

Russia

 

Yes, Johnson situation is bad but this one is much worse since Kevin wasn't knocked out in the first fight while Costa was.

 

All you need to do is watch the "another day in russia" videos on reddit to understand how it was allowed

 

they could consider getting a job.

 

Not when there are contracts involved it's not as easy as saying no.

The manager, coaches and promoters are to blame. They're the enablers

Look at the situation with Joshua, where Rob Mccraken knew full well he was completely concussed yet still let him fight because he didn't want to lose his job and be the main one responsible for pulling out Eddie Hearn's cash cow.

At that point Rob should have lost his licence as it would have only taken a few more rounds with a few more blows to head, had Joshua not quit and we'd have had another Patrick Day tragedy on our hands.