Mago’s Law: The Fight to Prevent Traumatic Brain Injuries in Boxing

[thenonpareil]

When the State of New York agreed, in 2017, to award a $22 million settlement package to Magomed Abdusalamov, the Russian heavyweight who incurred life-threatening brain damage during a fight at Madison Square Garden in 2013 and whose subsequent treatment called into question the policies and procedures of those who supervise combat sports, his lawyer, Paul Edelstein, was far from satisfied. No amount of financial compensation, after all, was going to change the fact that Abdusalamov would never be able to do the simplest tasks on his own, much less hold a normal conversation with his wife and three daughters. The state, which oversaw the fight, was sensitive to this, “which is why they paid what they did,” Edelstein said.

https://hannibalboxing.com/magos-law-th ... in-boxing/

[Thomastearns]

Grim reading.

Boxing must get it's house in order pre-fight, during and after - and that means for all fights, and all fighters.

'Medication' issues are a doorway to catastrophe. They were okay once upon a time, but that time has gone.

[oogiebe]

For the millionth time, boxing needs to step up and develop not only better and more comprehensive medical testing, but also post injury support for boxers and their families.

[man]

reality is we are fans of a sport that is
life threatening and it is our attention
that pays the bills for the athletes., that
keeps all lights on.

asking for heads of physicians doesn't
change that. my guess is there is real
pressure on them to keep a fight going
as long as possible.

[oogiebe]

reality is we are fans of a sport that is
life threatening and it is our attention
that pays the bills for the athletes., that
keeps all lights on.

asking for heads of physicians doesn't
change that. my guess is there is real
pressure on them to keep a fight going
as long as possible.

Nothing will eliminate the dangers, but we can mitigate some of the risk. It's people's lives we're talking about. Fighter's health should always come first and it's mandated for Ref's/cornermen/ring doctors, et al. It's between fight testing that is sorely missing. A concussion protocol would be a terrific start.

[Ilya Muromets]

It was criminal the way the officials - the ref and ring doctor and the cornermen and NY State Athletic commissioner Melvina Lathan, who was in attendance, behaved at the Mago-Perez fight, but worst of all were the god damned stinking doctors who after the fight was over looked over Abdusalamov and said "exit to the rear bye bye have a nice day" - and then Mago and his team who didn't even speak English were sent out into rush hour in midtown Manhattan to try to figure out how to get to a hospital while Mago was throwing up. They couldn't even hail a cab and the only way they got a cab was because a man who did hail one let them take his. Then at the hospital they had to wait on line. There was a ready ambulance at Madison Sq. Garden and if Mago had immediately been put in it and rushed to the emergency room he probably would have been saved and returned to normal.

[Ilya Muromets]

As far as I know the Klitschkos, who were running the show, didn't do anything to help out Mago either. Alexandr Povetkin was at his bedside though.

[tiny_acres]

if Mago had immediately been put in it and rushed to the emergency room he probably would have been saved and returned to normal. By the way, a friend of mine was a doctor At St. Vincent's emergency room, where Mago was taken, but that's a sad story too.

There is no way of knowing if the extra time would of left him recover to be normal.

[Ilya Muromets]

if Mago had immediately been put in it and rushed to the emergency room he probably would have been saved and returned to normal. By the way, a friend of mine was a doctor At St. Vincent's emergency room, where Mago was taken, but that's a sad story too.

There is no way of knowing if the extra time would of left him recover to be normal.

Time was very critical. Had he been rushed over by ambulance he would have received immediate care.

[tiny_acres]

if Mago had immediately been put in it and rushed to the emergency room he probably would have been saved and returned to normal. By the way, a friend of mine was a doctor At St. Vincent's emergency room, where Mago was taken, but that's a sad story too.

There is no way of knowing if the extra time would of left him recover to be normal.

Time was very critical. Had he been rushed over by ambulance he would have received immediate care.

I fully understand he needed immediate attention.
That does not mean he could of or would of recovered.
But the negligence by all involved is criminal at least