Mago article in the NYT

[sanluisjerzy]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/sp...re-garden.html

Not sure if this has been posted already. Pretty disturbing stuff.

[BlakBread904]

what a fkn travesty.

shyt like this is why I get hot mad when punks on here and elsewhere call fighters "cowards"

you aint a coward when you willingly put your health and life on the line,.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

what a fkn travesty.

shyt like this is why I get hot mad when punks on here and elsewhere call fighters "cowards"

you aint a coward when you willingly put your health and life on the line,.

STFU

so derrick Gainer wasnt acting like a coward against Marquez?

[Beercules]

They also did a piece on ESPN a while back.

[Clegg]

Haven't seen this before. Seems like the job of shadowing a boxer, collecting his urine, checking wraps and for neurological distress should pay a lot more than £52 and be done by someone more professional than was the case here. At the end it says the rate has doubled, maybe now they can get someone who isn't an autograph hunter and is better trained. Someone working in that role pulling out their phone to take a photo of a defeated boxer as he sits there bleeding and describing his pain seems worthy of a severe punishment anyway, even without the tragedy involved here.

A depressing read but a side of the sport we should never be ignorant of. These guys risk their lives and a lot of the time the right checks and precautions just aren't there or are badly handled. New York is probably superior to the vast majority of boxing commissions in the world, the risks elsewhere are even greater.

It does seem as if the sport has improved a lot since the early-mid 90s when boxers died in the UK and US and McClellan was so badly hurt and badly treated.

[SN!PER]

Why didn't anyone listen to John David Jackson? Farrago and Varlatta didn't seem to take their jobs seriously.

And then...

"Team Mago panics. Two of its members race to find help. A police officer offers no assistance."

Wtf?

There should be ambulances ready for any fighter that is complaining of pain after a fight. Better to be safe than sorry.

[Zaroku]

The sad side of the sport we love! I remember watching Jimmy Garcia beaten to death in the ring screaming at the screen for the ref to stop it several rounds before. Ruelas lives with regrets to this day.

RIP Garcia.

[Zaroku]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/sp...re-garden.html

Not sure if this has been posted already. Pretty disturbing stuff.

Good thread!! Thanks!

[BlakBread904]

STFU

so derrick Gainer wasnt acting like a coward against Marquez?

...a hit dog will holler.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

...a hit dog will holler.

I dont understand that ghetto filth uneducated talk.