Comments Thread For: NYSAC Under Fire After State Investigation Into Magomed Claims

[Uncle Rodge]

The American dream in action.

[ChiCityExtractz]

I swear, why does scum infiltrate my favorite sport? why? How ****ing poor are these people or money hungry that they will do ANYTHING, to get that extra dollar, its sickening.

[Evil_Meat]

Like someone said earlier in this thread it won't fix Magomed but his family deserves a massive settlement. Boxing is highly dangerous and a huge reform is needed to help protect the fighters. That fight was truly brutal IMO it could have just as easily been Mike Perez who ended up disabled.

[Weltschmerz]

Found a recent article about the neglect and misinformation surrounding what happened,

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/sp...rden.html?_r=0

Basically blames lack of proper protocol and the incompetence of officials and doctors involved. Abdusalamov was medically attended to and evaluated for around 15 minutes in the locker room post fight before being sent to the streets to find his own way to hospital when he could hardly take care of himself to stand up and walk out.

[The Gambler1981]

I am glad they are getting around to that, because that was messed up and should never happen like that in a backwater that rarely holds fights let alone what is supposed to be one of the major commissions in the US.

[PunchyPotorff]

Someone's life and their family's basically destroyed because of incompetent jurrks only concerned for themselves. I hope the rest of their lives are horror filled nightmares. They deserve it for what they allowed to happen to Mago. Disgusting.

[bojangles1987]

Follow sports long enough and you soon learn that commissions and doctors will ignore whatever they are told to until they are caught. Everyone involves does what is best for the product, not the athletes.

It's insane that a sport like boxing wouldn't already have post-fight tests carried out after a fight, but it's insane that NFL players can get concussed, guess about the fingers a trainer is holding up, and go back on the field. It's just a fact of sports, and something that is only just now changing due to exposure. Boxing will still fall behind because it is not popular enough to receive much attention.

[Humean]

Heres the actual report https://ig.ny.gov/sites/default/file...ORT7-25-16.pdf


"Although there were ambulances at Madison Square Garden available to transport Abdusalamov to the hospital at that time, the Inspector General found that the Athletic Commission lacked a formal tactical emergency plan. Consequently, Athletic Commission staff, the boxers, and their teams were unaware of what steps to take in the event of an emergency after a post-bout examination and in the absence of a physician"

I certainly wouldn't want to place my life in the hands of these incompetents. It certainly makes disgusting reading.

[jas]

horrific .

[Eastcoast]

Most of what the investigation complains about is common among athletic commissions in the U.S.

The real problem is athletic commission jobs are straight up about who you know, and has nothing to do with what you know. It's like a vacation job, no one is taking it serious, until something like this happens.

This.

Despite everything going on here, NYSAC still has probably one of the more competent boxing commissions. The level of corruption here is probably no less than you'd find in LV or CA, and probably far less than you'd find in TX.