Posted on 09/11/2017 2:21:47 PM PDT by plain talk
The State of New York has agreed to pay $22 million to a boxer who sustained severe brain damage during a heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden nearly four years ago, in a case that raised serious questions about the postfight care given to athletes who have just exchanged repeated blows to the head.
The settlement, awarded to the former boxer Magomed Abdusalamov and his family, was approved Friday by Judge Jeanette Rodriguez-Morick in New York City Civil Court. It was first reported by ESPN. A separate lawsuit filed against the three ringside physicians is pending in state Supreme Court.
Subsequent investigations by the New York Office of the Inspector General and several news media outlets, including The New York Times, raised critical questions about the medical care that Abdusalamov received after the fight — even as he exhibited signs of head trauma — as well as about the protocols of the New York State Athletic Commission.
For example, Abdusalamov and his team of handlers were not given proper interpretive services that might have led to faster medical care for the boxer. They were not made aware of two ambulances parked just outside the Garden, and when they asked about getting to a hospital, a boxing inspector directed them to the corner of Eighth Avenue and 33rd street, where they could find a taxi.
Surveillance footage of that street corner shows the boxer falling to a knee and vomiting, while his aides scramble in panic to find a taxi. They finally manage to hail one, and Abdusalamov was rushed to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he underwent emergency surgery — but the damage to his brain had been done.
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That's the name he gave the doctors treating his head trauma. Turns out his name is actually Sam Smith.
Another “professional sport” that needs to be shut down permanently.
How much is the government payout to the victims of the knockout game considering they were blindly assaulted in the streets by the playaz?
NO. The blame goes squarely on the boxer. He chose to go into the ring and to try to beat the muslim out of the other guy, and he tried to do the same thing to him.
The information has been in on boxing for a long long long long long long long long long time. (sorry for all the repeat “long” words there, but at some point this needs to be pounded home.
Go ahead. Box. Do what you want to. Just stop this non-stop cultural proclivity to blame everyone but yourself when things go wrong. You took your chances. You gambled. You lost.
Not boxing, a local community, a local region, a state, or the federal government, or any other entity should have to be your back-up, when you didn’t use the brain cells you had before the fight, to take a pass, and preserve them.
If you can get an insurance company to cover you for a massive part of the gate, go for it. If they think their company can handle the loss, that’s fine by me.
People take chances to do a number of things in their lives, that could cost them dearly. As agents of free will, I’m fine with that. Just don’t claim that you are owed something afterwards when the bottom falls out.
The trainer held up three fingers, asked him what day it was, and he answered: “yellow”.
Is it blue already? Sometimes I miss a day.
The problem with boxers is that there’s not much brain to begin with. So even a little brain damage is a significant percentage of the total.
I boxed close to 6 years and I loved it. Still sharp as a tack :)
Taxpayers shelling out?
Reparations. By any means possible.
So you're just one of the lucky one’s! Same goes for “professional football.” People who make some of these “sports” a life's career, never live to spend the money that they've made. And Boxing has been the place where the “handlers and promoters” always make out, but the "athlete" often becomes a vegetable and gets everything he's made fleeced from him by the host of parasites that "have guided his career!"
Barbara Boxer?
I thought she was from Kalifornia.
My thought as soon as I saw brain dead. Lol
No it doesn't, he entered the ring with the assurance that his medical needs, whatever they may entail, would be taken care of immediately following the fight.........
He was denied that care and forced find a taxi out in the street.......
The fault lies squarely on the promoters who are the ultimate profiteers of this barbaric sport.........
That was funny, I have not stopped laughing for 3 minutes
I shared an evening and a few beers several years ago with a real hero to most Texans and the living incarnation of what you say. Mental acuity and voice were “normal” but physically he had to have help to walk up two steps to get to the patio deck at the restaurant.
Who was he? The Tyler Rose.
I don't like the precedent that this sets. Liberals everywhere will qualify.
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