Patrick Day In Extremely Critical Condition After Saturday's Fight (UPDATE - RIP Patrick Day)
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RIP
Do fighter get insured before a fight, like how how some athletes are?
Do fighter get insured before a fight, like how how some athletes are?
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
Damn rip
Can’t they make it softer?
What's up with that, why are there more deaths, or it because it's just been more covered?hopefully day recovers...cuz seeing multiple ring fatalities within this year is no good
RIP young man, I was hoping he would make it.
there's always been ring fatalities...i think it has a little bit more attention because the 2 of the last 4 deaths were aired on american TV/stream..its not a common thing for american audiences to see
Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw
Superstar
Damn this is sad to hear...RIP
From The Athletic
Light middleweight boxer Patrick Day died on Wednesday, his promoter Lou DiBella announced. Day was knocked out in the 10th round by Charles Conwell last Saturday in Chicago and suffered a traumatic brain injury that forced his hospitalization immediately. The 27-year-old was comatose that night, and his condition was quickly declared grave by his team. He went into a coma after surgery but never woke up.
Day is the third professional boxer to pass away this year.
“It becomes very difficult to explain away or justify the dangers of boxing at a time like this,” DiBella said in a statement. “This is not a time where edicts or pronouncements are appropriate, or (when) the answers are readily available. It is, however, a time for a call to action. While we don’t have the answers, we certainly know many of the questions, have the means to answer them, and have the opportunity to respond responsibly and accordingly and make boxing safer for all who participate.
“This is a way we can honor the legacy of Pat Day. Many people live much longer than Patrick’s 27 years, wondering if they made a difference or positively affected their world. This was not the case for Patrick Day when he left us. Rest in peace and power, Pat, with the angels.”
Day (17-4-1, six KOs) was a former New York Golden Gloves winner and 2012 U.S. Olympic team alternate, ultimately rising into the WBC and IBF rankings in June after capturing minor belts offered by those sanctioning bodies.
He was riding a four-fight winning streak when he elevated to a tough June assignment against Carlos Adames (18-0, 14 KOs) of the Dominican Republic in Temecula, Calif. Day lasted all 10 rounds against Adames and won three of those on two judges’ scorecards, leaving him enthused when he met DiBella for a post-fight dinner.
“He walked out of that fight and was in a great mood,” DiBella recalled Wednesday. “He felt like he deserved to be at the highest level of the division.”
DiBella says Day told him he did not “want to fight a meaningless comeback fight against someone I’m supposed to beat, Lou. I want to fight someone at the highest level. This is the level I belong. If I don’t belong at this level, I should just go get a job.”
Day was assigned one of DiBella’s top prospects, 21-year-old Cleveland fighter Conwell (11-0, eight KOs). The fast-handed fighter knocked Day out midway through the final round.
“I thought I was doing Pat a favor. I considered it highly competitive, and considered it Charles Conwell’s greatest test in a fight some people predicted Pat would win,” DiBella told The Athletic. “He wasn’t being set up to be a victim. It was a competitive fight on paper.
“And this is the point: Our sport, even if it looks fair, is highly dangerous and we have to address that. I don’t feel responsible, but I feel guilty. I know I didn’t do anything wrong to cause Pat’s demise, but you wonder … and it’s happening too often. Purism be damned. We have to make it safer. The whole world evolves. Boxing needs to evolve.”
DiBella has long advocated increased use and scrutiny of brain screening, improved monitoring of weight cutting and additional safety methods to protect boxers.
In July, unbeaten 140-pound fighter Maxim Dadashev died four days after a punishing loss to Puerto Rico’s Subriel Matias. That same week, Argentina’s Hugo Santillan died following a taxing draw with Eduardo Javier Abreu that caused kidney failure and a heart attack.
DiBella was quoted in an Athletic story following Dadashev’s death discussing the endemic symptom that fighters are too brave for their own good.
“It makes them the kind of fighter we want to watch, (but) makes them the kind of fighter that’s dangerous to themselves,” he said at the time. “We as an industry have an obligation to protect them.”
In hindsight, Day’s desire to press on with a demanding fight following the more punishing loss to Adames was part of that, as was his interest in boxing even though his father was a successful gynecologist and his mother, according to DiBella, works as a U.N. translator.
“It was a running issue between Pat and I, how he came from a very educated, successful family and his mother didn’t want him to box. I’ve known Pat since he was a kid, and she never attended one of his fights,” DiBella said.
Day earned an associate’s degree in food and nutrition from Nassau Community College (N.Y.) and added a bachelor’s degree in health and wellness from Kaplan University. He had three siblings and counted former middleweight champion Danny Jacobs among his many boxer friends from New York, DiBella said.
“Patrick Day didn’t need to box. … He chose to box, knowing the inherent risks that every fighter faces when he or she walks into a boxing ring,” DiBella said in a statement. “Boxing is what Pat loved to do. It’s how he inspired people and it was something that made him feel alive.”
(Photo: Edward Diller / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Light middleweight boxer Patrick Day died on Wednesday, his promoter Lou DiBella announced. Day was knocked out in the 10th round by Charles Conwell last Saturday in Chicago and suffered a traumatic brain injury that forced his hospitalization immediately. The 27-year-old was comatose that night, and his condition was quickly declared grave by his team. He went into a coma after surgery but never woke up.
Day is the third professional boxer to pass away this year.
“It becomes very difficult to explain away or justify the dangers of boxing at a time like this,” DiBella said in a statement. “This is not a time where edicts or pronouncements are appropriate, or (when) the answers are readily available. It is, however, a time for a call to action. While we don’t have the answers, we certainly know many of the questions, have the means to answer them, and have the opportunity to respond responsibly and accordingly and make boxing safer for all who participate.
“This is a way we can honor the legacy of Pat Day. Many people live much longer than Patrick’s 27 years, wondering if they made a difference or positively affected their world. This was not the case for Patrick Day when he left us. Rest in peace and power, Pat, with the angels.”
Day (17-4-1, six KOs) was a former New York Golden Gloves winner and 2012 U.S. Olympic team alternate, ultimately rising into the WBC and IBF rankings in June after capturing minor belts offered by those sanctioning bodies.
He was riding a four-fight winning streak when he elevated to a tough June assignment against Carlos Adames (18-0, 14 KOs) of the Dominican Republic in Temecula, Calif. Day lasted all 10 rounds against Adames and won three of those on two judges’ scorecards, leaving him enthused when he met DiBella for a post-fight dinner.
“He walked out of that fight and was in a great mood,” DiBella recalled Wednesday. “He felt like he deserved to be at the highest level of the division.”
DiBella says Day told him he did not “want to fight a meaningless comeback fight against someone I’m supposed to beat, Lou. I want to fight someone at the highest level. This is the level I belong. If I don’t belong at this level, I should just go get a job.”
Day was assigned one of DiBella’s top prospects, 21-year-old Cleveland fighter Conwell (11-0, eight KOs). The fast-handed fighter knocked Day out midway through the final round.
“I thought I was doing Pat a favor. I considered it highly competitive, and considered it Charles Conwell’s greatest test in a fight some people predicted Pat would win,” DiBella told The Athletic. “He wasn’t being set up to be a victim. It was a competitive fight on paper.
“And this is the point: Our sport, even if it looks fair, is highly dangerous and we have to address that. I don’t feel responsible, but I feel guilty. I know I didn’t do anything wrong to cause Pat’s demise, but you wonder … and it’s happening too often. Purism be damned. We have to make it safer. The whole world evolves. Boxing needs to evolve.”
DiBella has long advocated increased use and scrutiny of brain screening, improved monitoring of weight cutting and additional safety methods to protect boxers.
In July, unbeaten 140-pound fighter Maxim Dadashev died four days after a punishing loss to Puerto Rico’s Subriel Matias. That same week, Argentina’s Hugo Santillan died following a taxing draw with Eduardo Javier Abreu that caused kidney failure and a heart attack.
DiBella was quoted in an Athletic story following Dadashev’s death discussing the endemic symptom that fighters are too brave for their own good.
“It makes them the kind of fighter we want to watch, (but) makes them the kind of fighter that’s dangerous to themselves,” he said at the time. “We as an industry have an obligation to protect them.”
In hindsight, Day’s desire to press on with a demanding fight following the more punishing loss to Adames was part of that, as was his interest in boxing even though his father was a successful gynecologist and his mother, according to DiBella, works as a U.N. translator.
“It was a running issue between Pat and I, how he came from a very educated, successful family and his mother didn’t want him to box. I’ve known Pat since he was a kid, and she never attended one of his fights,” DiBella said.
Day earned an associate’s degree in food and nutrition from Nassau Community College (N.Y.) and added a bachelor’s degree in health and wellness from Kaplan University. He had three siblings and counted former middleweight champion Danny Jacobs among his many boxer friends from New York, DiBella said.
“Patrick Day didn’t need to box. … He chose to box, knowing the inherent risks that every fighter faces when he or she walks into a boxing ring,” DiBella said in a statement. “Boxing is what Pat loved to do. It’s how he inspired people and it was something that made him feel alive.”
(Photo: Edward Diller / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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Only paulie would take this time to send subliminal shots at people. Dude is just a bitter old man now
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