Posted on 06/13/2017 6:18:24 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Franco, 25, sustained a head injury in a featherweight fight in Iowa Saturday. The fight was stopped in the 8th of 10 rounds. He took a blow to the head from Utah’s Jose Haro.
Franco was heavily favored in the televised bout but after that punch in the 8th round, officials saw Franco clearly wobbling and stopped the fight. He was taken to the hospital where doctors discovered several brain bleeds.
Before the devastating blow, Franco got knocked down in the ring and that can have an affect on a fighter a fellow boxer says.
“That weakens you as a fighter once you get knocked down. Your equilibrium may be off whatever the case but he did get back up and was ready to fight. He was doing what he could, moving around as he could to regain his strength,” Christopher Diaz said.
According to Franco’s father, he is now in a medically induced coma, allowing his son’s brain to rest. The boxer ran a fever of 102 and now it’s a waiting game for family and friends.
His friends said he needed emergency surgery to fix bleeding in his brain
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Tough sport. Prayers for him.
He can join all the former boxers who are sitting on the porch drooling in a cup.
Something wrong with a “sport” whose highest honor is literally beating a man so bad that he is deliberately brain-damaged in the ring.
Sounds like you are real authority on “boxing.”
Not much different from football.
If this had been some unfortunate football player at a local school, maybe it would be reported in a local paper.
Maybe.
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