Comments Thread For: Magomed's Family File $100 Million Dollar Suit at NYSAC

[KingTito]

I doubt they will get that much. I hope they get a fair amount though.

[JD88]

Magi family should do the same to the trainer and who ever was in the corner that night. They show no heart toward the fighter. Trainer supposed to protected their fighter, and wait for the next fight.

[Kuyukut]

magomed family deserves at least no less than $50 million from nysac.

[DoktorSleepless]

I invented a new sport where you have two contestants who progressively jump off higher and higher heights. After each jump, you have to jump off a height that is a foot higher. This keeps on going until someone gives up and decides it's too much or gets knocked out by the fall. It's a very lucrative sport where millions of people around the world watch. (but not everyone) It's a very noble sport because it takes a ton of guts and courage to do. It's also a very risky sport where you risk breaking your bones everyday, and it does happen often. Hey, I have another brilliant idea. Lets have the government oversee this and have tax payers who have nothing to do with it bear all the financial risk in case the very likely possibility of someone getting severely hurt does happens.

I sympathize with Mago's family and given the current monopoly in athletic commissions by the state, Mago was forced to rely on them. Perhaps there was some negligence involved and some of the damage could have been minimized. I don't know for sure. Two things might have happened. Either the commission didn't follow their own rules and procedures to the tee, or their rules and procedures simply weren't adequate. If the former, Mago's team might have a case because he contractually agreed to fight in NY under the impression that those procedures would be followed. If it's the later, then Mago's team can say he was forced to fight under these inadequate procedures because there was no other alternative in the state. (Or maybe not because he simply could have chosen not to fight at all knowing the high risks)

Three things could come out of this.
1) New York will ban boxing because these potential lawsuits are too expensive
2) New York will beef up safety rules, which could be prohibitively expensive
3) New York disbands its commission and lets various private firms willing to to bear the risk take over.

If NY bans boxing, the lower income classes will lose an age old outlet to get out of poverty and out the streets. Or they might even continue to fight in an underground environment with zero safety procedures in place. New York boxing fans also obviously lose their beloved sport.

If New York beefs up safety rules, it could be too ridiculously expensive for boxing to continue as a mainstream sport. In an ideal world of mandatory ambulance rides to the hospital and MRI scans after every fight, it would be extremely hard to get any fight made with the money available. If the state pays for it, then the tax payers are being screwed. If the promoters have to pay, then fights simply wouldn't be profitable, especially in the lower levels of boxing during build up, and we wouldn't get any boxing at all. The barrier to entry is too high for anyone other than rich people to get into it when historically boxing was a sport for the underprivileged. Or New York can just force everyone to wear headgear and huge gloves, which would suck.

Even if Mago's team is completely justified in suing and getting compensation, in our current system, the tax payers are being unfairly butt fucked by this. It shouldn't be their responsibility pay the medical bills every time someone voluntarily decides to get in a fight in the street and it shouldn't their responsibility to pay the medical bills when someone decides to get in a boxing fight in a ring either. This is why I'm starting to believe state commissions should get out of the boxing business. They shouldn't ban it. They should just let someone else handle it. If a private athletic commission equivalent is willing to do this, they should bear the legal financial risk, not the tax payer.

[Tay Roc]

I don't think his family will win anything. It depends on the contract he signed, which is likely ironclad. Also, assumption of the risk. If this goes anywhere it will likely be a challenge to the reasonableness of the doctors' actions post-fight, which can be rebutted by the corner's irresponsibility (i.e. comparative negligence) during the fight and after.

Sucks, but I don't see him winning anything, but hopefully he can get some sort of settlement to pay off his medical bills at the very least.

[I Love Jesus!]

thats true the corner has as much responsibility not stopping it as the ref does.

[Respect Power]

I think the NYSAC was negligent ,negligent ,NEGLIGENT .... I want to hear more about how there was only one ambulance at msg that night and if they would of put MAGO in that ambulance , they would of had to Delay the main event until another ambulance arrived . As per ny law there has to be a ambulance present at the start of the fight . I think that is why they rushed MAGO out , so the main event wasn't Delayed a half an hour which woulda caused broadcasting scheduling conflict around the world . The doctors , NYSAC , I think everyone felt pressure to keep the show going as planned.

[MDPopescu]

Yeah, I remember he asked if his nose was broken after round 1 and if his face was swollen after round 5 or so. They could have been attempts to get his corner to stop the fight without him quitting. Everything is easier in hindsight, of course.

I didn't know he had a broken jaw and hand too.

I know Michael Watson won a case after his fight against Eubank. In that case, however, there was a breach of contact with no ambulence being there or something. I don't know if Magomed's family have a legitimate case, sadly.

Same thing here -- the ambulance was kept for the main event and they told him to go at the hospital by taxi... The case is strong...

[Sugar Adam Ali]

I think the courts would recognize the inherent risks in prizefighting. The trouble is with the handling of the case after the fight was over. Mago was all but ignored by medical representatives of the state and left to fend for himself while clearly in bad shape. The officials at the scene should've provided an ambulance and insisted that Magomed go to the hospital immediately after the fight. Yet, there are reports that he was told to see a doctor "in a day or two." This whole things reeks of negligence.

Ok,,,if all this is true then yes, there was major negligence on the part of the commission

[jasjas]

he had to wait for a cab???? smfh