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By Thomas Gerbasi - Fay Wray was nowhere to be found, but King Kong was down.
It wasn’t airplane fire or even beauty that took “King Kong,” Joseph Agbeko, to the deck in April, just days before his bout with Abner Mares, but an attack of sciatica that hit him on his way to Los Angeles from New York. The pain, excruciating, was something even the hardened warrior from Ghana couldn’t bear.
“They said it could really happen to anyone because of the time that the flight was delayed at the airport and the time I spent not moving on the plane for the six hours from New York to LA,” he said on a recent media teleconference. “It doesn’t happen every day, but the people at the hospital knew because they are so close to the airport. It does happen to people sitting on a plane for a long time.”
It wasn’t how he expected his return to the west coast to go, face down in baggage claim at LAX and unable to move. The last time he had traveled out west, Agbeko had regained his IBF bantamweight title with a 12 round unanimous decision win over Yonnhy Perez in December of 2010. Now he was about to be rushed to Marina del Rey Hospital, where he remained in the emergency room until 5am the next morning. It was Tuesday. The fight with Mares was on Saturday, but after another medical evaluation on Wednesday, Agbeko was officially pulled from the fight.
He was crushed. [Click Here To Read More]
It wasn’t airplane fire or even beauty that took “King Kong,” Joseph Agbeko, to the deck in April, just days before his bout with Abner Mares, but an attack of sciatica that hit him on his way to Los Angeles from New York. The pain, excruciating, was something even the hardened warrior from Ghana couldn’t bear.
“They said it could really happen to anyone because of the time that the flight was delayed at the airport and the time I spent not moving on the plane for the six hours from New York to LA,” he said on a recent media teleconference. “It doesn’t happen every day, but the people at the hospital knew because they are so close to the airport. It does happen to people sitting on a plane for a long time.”
It wasn’t how he expected his return to the west coast to go, face down in baggage claim at LAX and unable to move. The last time he had traveled out west, Agbeko had regained his IBF bantamweight title with a 12 round unanimous decision win over Yonnhy Perez in December of 2010. Now he was about to be rushed to Marina del Rey Hospital, where he remained in the emergency room until 5am the next morning. It was Tuesday. The fight with Mares was on Saturday, but after another medical evaluation on Wednesday, Agbeko was officially pulled from the fight.
He was crushed. [Click Here To Read More]
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