Magomed Abdusalamov - video from rehab

In one of the odd quirks of sports, the best trainers/coaches/managers often were mediocre players or fighters. That's not to say he would make a good trainer, just that he doesn't have to be a poor one.

 

That was ****ing brutal to watch. Poor guy and his family.

 

Poor Mago, got tears while watching the video. I can imagine Mike Perez is mentally broken too. You know it's a big risk to enter the ring and you know it is possible to die, but nobody deserves this...

 

I think that is very optimistic. If I watch those videos, I don't think he will recover enough to be able to live on his own. He can not talk, he can not walk, I think he needs advanced medical care for the rest of his life. I hope I am wrong, but maybe it was better for him and his family if he didn't survive the stroke, how hard that might sound.

:-(

 

Hard to watch.. the guy wasn't the most skilled but was a warrior. I just hope there's some way of him evntually being able to return to semblence of normal life.

Bless Mago, his kids, wife and family.

What I truly hope is that the lessons from this tragedy are taken on board by the SACs and other governing bodies around the world - that full medical facilities should be provided and enforced for each and every boxing match and that promoters are made liable for either appropriate levels of insurance or healthcare costs (where necessary).

 

Damn that's ****ed up.

 

This too ^. I can also feel for Perez. Not only to know that you've destroyed another mans life and that of his family but also to return to ring with the terrible knowledge that you could do it again ... or that it could just as easily happen to you.. each time you get in that cruel squared circle.

Kovalev spoke of the second fear after the Simakov tragedy ... how hard it was to get back into the ring knowing that the guy who was KOd .. the guy who died, could just as easily have been him.

 

He's actually able to speak, albeit in a semi-hard to understand and disgruntled manner, but he is coherent and "with it" nonetheless. It's nothing that speech therapy and time can't fix though. I'm optimistic about Magos recovery, have been from the beginning. He's a fighter and he has the mentality needed to improve, of course getting better is going to requires long stretches of therapy, but he will get there. Mago is already at a point where not many thought was possible after that dreadful night, he'll continue to improve, he's a fighter :deal

 

That's a tragic, heartbreaking scene.

However, I think there are some encouraging things to be gleamed from the clip.

1) he can understand and follow the directions given by the doctors. That's important and I hope it means that his mental facilities are getting better. Although not a complicated exercise it still probably took some explaining on the doctors part and some understanding on Mago's part.

2) he's relearning his coordination, sitting up (probably with some help) and seems to at least be able to follow the balloon for most of it.

I'm not a doctor but I do know that the brain is more plastic then most think. New neuronal connections can be made that circumvent the damaged tissue and although he'll never be the same, he might be able to get to a better place then he is currently.

I wish him the best, hopefully that warrior mentality that pushed him in that brutal fight will serve him well on the long recovery he has ahead of him.

 

I sure hope so, he is a true warrior :good

 

this **** breaks my heart man. I dont wanna watch this. Jesus

 

i hope he can recover man