Nick Blackwell update

He's got no one but himself to blame. Can't blame the Eubanks for this one I'm afraid.

 

Still don't get why people have to be suspended over this. He's a grown man no one forced him into the sparring ring. He made that choice and he's paying for it as we speak.

 

What a total tool you are, a coach has a duty of care and no such care was show here, shocking, get well soon nick

 

even so, why was the boxer suspended? and as far as i know blackwell wasn't being trained by the coach in question either. he was just there, probably to look after his own fighter, not blackwell. imo you can't put the blame on their doorstep. it's all blackwell. it's probably not too much of a stretch to imagine blackwell even deliberately chose such an inexperienced trainer precisely because he knew any other gym or trainer would have refused the spar. he did everything he could to get his sparring fix and is the engineer of his own downfall.

 

If the guys in the gym and the boxer who sparred him knew of the fight and his injuries then surely it's their fault???

 

Wasting your breath with that cretin Billy. He is beyond help.

 

they probably went light but he just cant take any shots anymore. or maybe blackwell went aggresively at the guy and he copped some heat back his way as well. at any rate still 100% blackwells fault.

 

Still cant get my head around this. Its just pure and utter madness. To think his family had to go through this for a second time.

Get well soon Nick.

 

I'm in two minds now weather I feel sorry for him or weather I'm thinking well now he brought this upon himself sparring wtf man may as well have played Russian roulette

 

Exactly.

Someone has lost their livelihood because of Blackwells careless decisions.

I know few acquaintances who actually gave money to help Blackwell get back on his feet after his first injury, and now he has just thrown it all back in their faces.

 

Whilst I agree his coach and sparring partner were negligent Nick has to take some responsibility from this too. Whether or not he should be allowed to be a trainer is also in question now, his judgement appears very poor and who is to say he wouldn't do something equally stupid in the future.

 

People are reading too much into this, and are rushing in to kick a man while he is down in a most despicable fashion. This is cheap shotting of the worst kind and also is stupid lazy thinking ( not by you sugar I refer to the a-holes posting previously and knocking Nick).

It's fairly straight forward what happened here:
Nick obviously felt 100% fit and well and decided to ease himself back into it, with .....as he saw it.....a harmless low-level spar, nothing at all like the brutal beating he took from Eubank, and which he almost certainly felt posed no risk of repeat injury.
Yes, we all know he got it wrong, in the worst possible way, and the terrible consequences etc.
We all know he "should" have been stronger willed and been able to walk away from the ring forever. But we don't live in a perfect world do we? People make mistakes. All sorts of people, all the time.
But the cheap knocking of the very likeable Nick Blackwell by these a-holes is sickening.

 

Excuse me, but people have a right to feel aggrieved by this mans careless and reckless behaviour. There is nothing sickening about feeling disappointed that Nick Blackwell willingly threw away a second chance to live healthily just so he could have one last kick out of fighting.

What is sickening is the fact that many people I know spent hundreds of pounds to help him. Other boxers also threw thousands of pounds at his feet to help him.

Not to mention his family already had to be put through the trauma of watching his head swell up inside the ring only to collapse moments after the fight ended.

Doctors dedicated hours to fixing him so he can have a normal life. They warned him that if he was to ever fight again he would risk his life, yet he ignored all this and more. And now a good man has lost his job and Hasan Karkardi himself, will no doubt be targeted in some kind of hate campaign, all because Nick Blackwell pressured them to allow him to spar, yet somehow trainer, the sparring partner, the fans and everybody else you can point your finger at besides Nick, is to blame!