Frida Wallberg vs. Diana Prazak
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Frida Wallberg 129 lbs lost to Diana Prazak 129 lbs by KO at 1:19 in round 8 of 10
- Date: 2013-06-14
- Location: Water Front Congress SAS Radisson, Stockholm, Sweden
- Referee: Bela Florian
- Judge: Ian John-Lewis 68-65
- Judge: Esa Lehtosaari 68-65
- Judge: Robert Verwijs 68-65
- WBC Female World Super Featherweight Title
- WBAN Lineal Super Featherweight Title
Frida Wallberg versus Diana Prazak WBC Female World Super Featherweight Title Bout
- Fought for WBC Female World Super Featherweight title & WBAN Lineal Super Featherweight title and to decide the Boxrec Female Rank Number One in Stockholm, Sweden. Wallberg ahead on points at time of the knockout.
- Highlights from round eight video clip of both knockdowns, the knockout and aftermath courtesy Swiss Television on YouTube. [[1]]
- Prazak went up in weight and lost a ten round decision to World Boxing Federation and International Boxing Association Female World Light Welterweight champion Holly Holm. Coming back down to her usual fight weight for Wallberg, she demonstrated more power.
- Prazak knocked down Wallberg with a left hook in midring in round eight. Wallberg got up, but the short right hook knockout blow looked (see video clip above) more like her legs went. Referee Béla Flórián waved an immediate end with Wallberg on her back unable to continue.
- Wallberg loses her WBC title and collapses, suffering a subdural hematoma (a bleeding between the skull and the brain), and is rushed to the Karolinska Institutet Hospital for emergency brain surgery.[[2]]
- Prazak trainer Lucia Rijker demanded the ringside physician was to come back to the ring, get a stretcher and have Wallberg taken to the hospital after seeing Wallberg slumped and hanging over the ropes.
- Wallberg awoke from a medically-induced coma a few days later, stating on her Facebook page that did not want anybody to worry, but she was tired from all of her medication. [[3]] Boxing rules in Sweden mandate Wallberg is not allowed to fight in Sweden again after incurring an injury of this type. However, for example the BDB Bund Deutscher Berufsboxe German boxing body does allow boxers who recover from an injury of this type to fight in Germany if they receive a medical clear after comprehensive testing.
- During recovery a year later, Wallberg explained an accidental clash of heads early in the bout caused the brain injury. [[4]]