Comments Thread For: Magomed Abdusalamov Litigation Ends in Settlement

[Mooshashi]

Ultimately I don't think the money is truly deserved. Because I don't think anyone was truly at fault here he's in a dangerous sport and he was in a tough fight and he was hanging in there tough in the fight it was not even stopped late. There wasn't a gross negligence of any sort. And I know the family always feels they should sue and I don't really hold that against them for trying to recoup some money since they've lost their loved one. But it's not really a good precedent. Now if it was like Antonio margarito using plaster loaded gloves and then Miguel Cotto suffer brain damage in that fight? That's definitely a lawsuit. They are even trying to sue the referee. The main problem is that Mago, did not have the chin in the punch resistance of a David Tua or an Oliver McCall or a chuvalo.

The other thing that's going to come across as insensitive but I'm going to say it anyway. Is you have to determine what degree of vegetable you want to be in life. Adonis Stevenson appears to be recovering somewhat and will live a diminished life of some quality. But people like Gerald McClellan and this guy. Are basically vegetables that's what they are they can't talk they can't walk. I know if I was in that position I would want my family to mercifully put me down and that's the truth. So I don't know who's paying for this 22 million dollars an insurance company I hope.

This happens now and again and it is a tragedy but by the Numbers it's actually a very small percentage of boxers that befall this. There are tens of thousands of boxers that have competed without Serious injury.

Looking at it in retrospect is easier than looking at it when it was actually happening. When it was actually happening people just thought it was a good fight. In retrospect I don't like the way he was asking his Corner if his face was swollen he was touching and pawing at his face between rounds because he thought something was broken or something didn't feel right. But he kept fighting each round.

It isn't a handout. It's compensation for the NY Boxing Commission providing in adequate medical care at the site of the fight. This penalty will make future fights safer, and should help prevent serious damage should a similar situation occur.

Now you have learned something today.

[4truth]

Anyone calling the award a handout or that Magomed didn't deserve the money is just ignorant, in my opinion. While I hold his corner most responsible, anyone involved could have and should have stopped the fight when it was obvious to anyone with a brain that Magomed was in real trouble physically and was just taking damage with no chance of winning anymore.

[CubanGuyNYC]

While the lawsuit names the in-ring doctor, the main complaint was, as I recall, the way the officials handled Magomed after the fight. He was looked at in the dressing room and sent away. Mago and one of his friends took a taxi to a nearby hospital, where doctors placed him in a medically induced coma to ease his brain swelling.

Boxing is a dangerous sport, and fighters definitely take a risk participating in it, but a certain level of protection is reasonably expected of the authorities overseeing the action. I won’t speak of the in-ring doctor, as there have been countless wars fought in this sport, but the ones in the dressing room appear to have been negligent. They should’ve at least called an ambulance. It may not have changed the future of Mago’s health and the lawsuit that followed, but that was the least they could’ve done. They left themselves wide open for a suit, and brought further attention to the actions of the doctor inside the ring.